[wqaatwt]

> Exterminate millions of its own (undereducated) population in meaningless wars and poorly–planned public works?

Well economic growth and development in China only began several years after they stopped doing all of these things.

They weren’t ahead of India in any meaningful way back when Mao was still in power and enacting his unhinged ideas.

[avadodin]

The author made it sound like it was a prerequisite