India too has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, while remaining federated and to some extent democratic. The elevation of China's billions out of poverty has come through it's involvement with the marketplace of global capitalist democracies - not the other way around.
No offense to the Indian people, but I always find it amusing when people use India as the counterexample to China to show "you don't need Socialism to achieve the same results." When it almost tells the exact opposite story.
There's also this.[3]
[1] https://data.worldbank.org/country/india
[2] https://data.worldbank.org/country/china
[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20160921084037/http://www.spectr...
The Chinese economy is overvalued, and economic growth is grinding to a halt despite massive government spending. https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3033564/c...
Every western country is a counter example.
Also, I'll probably take World Bank's data more seriously than an unsubstantiated claim by some random guy on the Internet.
Oh, and it wasn't me who brought up India as the counterexample.
> Fascists believe that liberal democracy is obsolete and regard the complete mobilization of society under a totalitarian one-party state as necessary to prepare a nation for armed conflict and to respond effectively to economic difficulties. Such a state is led by a strong leader—such as a dictator and a martial government composed of the members of the governing fascist party—to forge national unity and maintain a stable and orderly society.
Using a word exactly correctly is not "random".