[gameshot911]

>>By using this strategy, the Chinese government uses its people as underpriced laborers that give it a huge export surplus and which it can use to influence world events, as well as to generate vast government capital (essentially capital it is withholding from its citizens) it can use to invest in foreign companies/assets.

To what end? Let's say this is true, and let's also say that its strategy is successful. What is achieved if the end goal is not to better it's populace? And if it's goal is to better it's populace, why keep them down now at all and not immediately trying to improve the well-being of its citizens?