IE I used to think the phrase "lifting a billion people out of poverty" was a dead giveaway for state-sponsored PRC shills.
Then it occurred to me: anyone who had heard that phrase enough, and was sympathetic to it, would naturally (and often times subconsciously) repeat it.
https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2022/04/01/l...
"China" is the subject of the sentence, while "800 million people" is the subject.
The implication being that China - or the CCP - was doing the lifting. The people just kind of passively did got carried upwards.
Even the choice of verb is illuminating. "Lifting", making the number after it add a sense of difficulty to the achievement that "China" accomplished.
People do not talk this in real life. No one is broke, moves to Boise, Idaho, and then says "Boise, Idaho lifted me out poverty".
So yes, "China lifed X people out of poverty" is 100% a canned propaganda phrase. The more neutral description of what actually happened is "China transitioned from a low income economy to a middle income economy".
"American dream" / land of opportunity"
"Government Assistance Lifts 45.4 Million Out of Poverty in 2021" - US Census Bureau
>odd phrasing
And accurate.
Governance systems > individual effort. Populations do as well as their system allows. At scale of large nations, it's mostly down to management, even suggesting it's a team effort is being charitable. Contrast how India is doing under same timeframe, ergo accurate to say CCP governance was/is primarily responsible for lifting 800m people out of poverty.
TLDR of "China lifted 800 million out of poverty" is fine.
More accurate and neutral TLDR is "Chinese Communist Party lifted 800 million out of extreme poverty"
But for some reason most western press like to minimize/trivialize the CCP part with China.