China Tries To Censor Data About Nearly 1 Billion People in Poverty::Chinese government censors tried to control discussions about the country’s economy this week.
1 billion people in China living in poverty?? I find that almost hard to believe that’s ~66% of their population
This was my first thought. Seems unlikely. I’d see this just as likely being propaganda.
why is this related to technology?
How do you think they’re detecting what to sensor, how are they censoring it?
if such a thing is happening, the article utterly fails to address the technologies they are using to censor this. it just mentions some disabled hashtags.
it does not belong to a tech community.
i dont know, the article says absolutely nothing about it.
just that china bad.
Economics and technology are intrinsically related.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Internet censors in China worked around the clock this week to suppress online discussions about poverty in the country after an economist revealed nearly 1 billion people were living off less than $300 a month.
On Weibo, searches for the now disabled hashtag returned a notice reading: “In accordance with relevant laws, regulations and policies, the content of this topic cannot be displayed.”
In his article for the business outlet Yicai, Li cited data from a 2021 research paper by the China Institute of Income Distribution at Beijing Normal University, which placed the number of people living on less than 2,000 yuan a month at 964 million, or nearly 70 percent of the population.
Li nonetheless concluded that competent government leadership could enable further economic growth, possibly doubling China’s GDP by 2035.
“Although 40 years of reform and opening up have greatly improved the country’s comprehensive strength and level of national income, as of today, the fact that we have a large population, few resources and very uneven development is still obvious, and a considerable number of residents are still close to the poverty line,” Wang and Meng wrote.
At the end of 2020, China’s President Xi declared a “complete victory” over absolute poverty in the country, which Beijing defines as living off 2,300 yuan a year.
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There is no poverty in Ba Sing Se.
Why the fuck am I now sitting here reading US economic/political propaganda on the technology feed? GTFO
Yeah, a couple of decades ago China was a miracle as western institutions repeatedly redefined the poverty threshold to make global poverty look like it was improving. Back then it was touting the power of the free market, with most of the gains being in China. Now that they want conflict with China, those numbers are no longer good enough. I’m not saying China doesn’t have a poverty problem, I’m just saying this is illustrative of propaganda changing the narrative.
It’s no secret that the Chinese economy is faltering. How many of their “too big to fail” corps have gone tits up in the past 2 years? We’ve all seen the videos of people struggling to even afford living in cages. Also, calling it propaganda when you have no data to back up or refute the claims made in the article just makes you look like a tankie.
