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A ton of the achievement has to do with Western investments. For example, Apple spent $275 billion in the late 2010s to build up Chinese tech manufacturing capabilities. That's one company doing a 5X larger investment than the "historic" CHIPs bill signed by Biden this year.

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Western FDI has definitely played a major role in China’s growth, yes.

Note that my comment doesn’t call that into question though, only that the conversation around chinas success is almost always grossly oversimplified to suit ideological agendas.

>A ton of the achievement has to do with Western investments.

To be fair, a fairly big reason why China became poor was because of western imperialism. Look up "Century of humiliation".

And if you go back in history far enough, China was the most advanced country and had the highest GDP in the world for long periods of time.

But I think you're not open to these ideas.

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