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Fact Check: China Didn’t Actually Lift 100 Million Out of Poverty Since 2014 Commentary China’s dictator, Xi Jinping, loves to brag about how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) lifted 100 million people out of poverty since 2012, when he took office. The CCP in general boasts of lifting 800 million from poverty since 1990. It typically pluses up the numbers, conveniently leaves out the tens of millions who died of starvation from disastrous agricultural collectivization in the 1950s, and never mentions its lackluster economic performance relative to Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. A new studycovered by the Financial Times on June 8 details how Xi’s “precise targeting” poverty eradication campaign cooks the books by ignoring the over 63 percent of China’s population that live in cities, those who fell into poverty after cooking the books started, and its much lower poverty line than other countries at a similar level of development. The study, by former U.N. senior econo

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