Despite its impressive GDP, China's quality of life might not reflect it.
Image: Ling Tang/UnsplashIn truth, America’s performance is quite exceptional, coming in 5th behind only smaller homogenous and socially stable nations, despite it being a massive and very diversified economic power that is characterised by strong social diversity. In comparison, China’s placing at 60th and 73rd put it behind some of the poorest third-world countries, although its aggregate GDP propels it into second place in the world rankings behind America.
This flagrant contradiction that shows China to be an economic superpower and simultaneously an underdeveloped nation is being manifested on a national scale by the richest Chinese citizens who have the same quality of life as the most well-off westerners, while at the same time the overwhelming majority of their compatriots have a worse quality of life than Guineans. The inequalities are of course a global phenomenon, and sickness, existing in every country.
Faced with poverty in certain territories that is comparable to that of the most impoverished nations in the world, and forced to adopt extraordinary — and often theatrical — measures to show to their citizens that they fully intend to fight this plague, they are well aware that their actions are destabilising confidence in their economy for the business world, and therefore weakening their GDP that they are understandably so proud of.
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