The dude killed 50mil plus of his own people, via his idiocy. He can’t take credit for life expectancy and not take blame for the needless deaths.
Famines in China Pre-PRC:
1907 Great Qing Famine — 25 million dead
1920–1921 North China famine — 0.5 million dead
1928–1930 Chinese famine — 3 million dead
1936–1937 famine — 5 million dead
1942–1943 famine — 2.5 million dead
50M deaths for the Great Leap Forward is complete nonsense, with the usual mainstream estimate at around 30M, although this has extreme issues as well. The truth is that China was still semi-feudal and largely agrarian and that massive famines occurred regularly; this was exacerbated by Mao in some areas (and other officials’ mistakes in attempting to rapidly socialize farming during environmental issues as well), of course. Still, even during this period, life expectancy (at worst) stagnated rather than dropped. China’s rise absolutely would not have occurred had they stayed under semi-colonialism and subjugation.
Following its establishment, the PRC (from 1950-1957) had over 50% reductions in infant and child mortality and crude death compared to the old system of semi-feudalism and semi-colonialism which the U.S. attempted to enforce and uphold by financing the Kuomintang and a growth in life expectancy (from 1950-1980) which a study calls “among the most rapid sustained increases in documented global history."
Famines in China Pre-PRC:
50M deaths for the Great Leap Forward is complete nonsense, with the usual mainstream estimate at around 30M, although this has extreme issues as well. The truth is that China was still semi-feudal and largely agrarian and that massive famines occurred regularly; this was exacerbated by Mao in some areas (and other officials’ mistakes in attempting to rapidly socialize farming during environmental issues as well), of course. Still, even during this period, life expectancy (at worst) stagnated rather than dropped. China’s rise absolutely would not have occurred had they stayed under semi-colonialism and subjugation.
Following its establishment, the PRC (from 1950-1957) had over 50% reductions in infant and child mortality and crude death compared to the old system of semi-feudalism and semi-colonialism which the U.S. attempted to enforce and uphold by financing the Kuomintang and a growth in life expectancy (from 1950-1980) which a study calls “among the most rapid sustained increases in documented global history."