When we talk about China's poverty alleviation effort, we mostly look at the various policies the central government creates.
What's almost never talked about, is how those policies become reality.
Here is an eye opening documentary about China's poverty alleviation commissioners:
Thanks for posting this. I actually know people who have worked first hand in these very same areas. If you didn’t catch it, these people are Yi minority people.
I wish everyone who talks the typical western BS would watch this. CGTN is often called propaganda, but what part of this makes China look good?
The officials in the video talk about Masters Degrees, but the reality I’m told, it’s even an improvement just to do basic factory work.
All the talk about Mandarin education as “cultural genocide”, but what would these people rather have them do? Continue to collect dried grass and twigs for heating fuel? Putting a solid roof over someone's head is not promoting human rights I guess. This is almost a colonial attitude admittedly, but in this case no one is taking their land and resources away.
When Pompeo or those commentators that say "China hasn't changed!", what a joke. Even in a village like that, there is a guy wearing a Nike shirt and kids wearing Mickey Mouse. The truth is bare when you see something like this. America can even influence rural people in the mountains of China, no Great Firewall, "army of censors", etc can stop it. However, when day by day it is a struggle to get by, political issues really aren't on the mind. This is the reality.
Some people say the kids arrested in HK for rioting should rot in jail. I once suggested no, they should be sent to these rural counties and see what real human rights are.
Sometimes I am happy J-7 is still flying because it means the money is being better spent.
