China has been poorer than Europe longer than the Communist Party thinks

Xi Jinping’s “Chinese dream” is that the country will once again be the world’s richest country, as it was before the “hundred years of humiliation” beginning in 1839. A new study casts doubt on that target

China has been poorer than Europe longer than the Communist Party thinks

The study finds the only period when China was richer was during the 11th…

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