You are right that every country has its problems, and the larger the country the larger the problems can be. All I’m saying is, if I had to bet on one countries future as just an average citizen, I’d choose China easily. I appreciate the sources, its a hard subject to learn about objectively.
Got any sources? Anything from the last 10 or 15 years?
Ongoing minority repression.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/08/china-still-no-accountability-for-crimes-against-humanity-in-xinjiang-three-years-after-major-un-report/
China creates record billionaires.
https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3330544/rich-list-chinas-billionaire-count-hits-record-stock-markets-surge
Rising wealth inequality.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10670564.2023.2172553
Starving to death hundreds of thousand of civilians during the violent revolution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Changchun
Millions of people killed during revolution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War
The US economy and China’s are inexorably linked.
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/contentious-us-china-trade-relationship
Credit where credit is due. China has lifted close to a billion out of extreme poverty.
https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2022/04/01/lifting-800-million-people-out-of-poverty-new-report-looks-at-lessons-from-china-s-experience
How China’s authoritarian streak has had it limits.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/false-promises-the-authoritarian-development-models-of-china-and-russia/
Chinese arms supplied to conflict areas
https://whoarmswar.tufts.edu/supplier/china/
You are right that every country has its problems, and the larger the country the larger the problems can be. All I’m saying is, if I had to bet on one countries future as just an average citizen, I’d choose China easily. I appreciate the sources, its a hard subject to learn about objectively.