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meanwhile in the real world 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
Authoritarian is a nonsensical term, every government holds authority by virtue of having the monopoly on violence, the only question is whose interests the government serves.
again, welcome to the real world https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25495509/
China already has democratic socialism. Only westerners pretend otherwise.