Xi warnt Beamte davor, eine „rücksichtslose“ Ausweitung des BIP zu verfolgen
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-15/xi-warns-officials-against-chasing-reckless-expansion-in-gdp?taid=693f700c0510130001f94b5b&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_content=business&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
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Maybe it’s just really effective propaganda but the more I see about China the more it seems like they are doing all of the right things and the west is spiralling. Yes they have leadership that will crush you without a second thought if you threaten it, but they are actually competent and appear to genuinely have good intentions for the betterment of their country.
Says the dictator of a country that has for decades exaggerated its annual GDP growth for propagandistic reasons.
Dawg, you are the one who setup the GDP target for them.
Translation:
“We are going to miss our GDP target”
to everyone dismissing this as propaganda on first thought, you forgot that everything you know about china, you saw it from big corpo news and social medias
yea i hate china too, but hating something doesn’t mean you need to think every single aspect about it is bad
Not enough GDP growth: straight to jail. Too much GDP grown, believe it or not, also jail.
Prioritize cost of living and homeownership affordability and not just blindly chase high gdp numbers. Why not?
Honestly, the world would be a better place if we stopped using GDP and used the happiness index (or similar) instead, but the rich control the world so that’s never going to happen.
Translation: quality over quantity.
This is not new. Beijing has been literally handing out labor intensive industries to ASEAN since ~2016. Beijing’s new goal in the past 10 years has been to grow its higher-end manufacturing sector. They want to sell EVs instead of sneakers.
The thing about GDP is that it isn’t measured uniformly. Some countries emphasize total consumption, others total production, and some use a mix of both. Even if everyone calculated it the same way, the number could still be manipulated.
What many people find surprising is that GDP is actually a relatively new concept. It wasn’t widely used to measure a country’s economic performance until the late 20th century after Bretton Woods. The United States itself switched from GNP to GDP in 1991. GNP,Gross National Product, was the older standard. If you look further back in history, national strength was measured in far more tangible terms: how many tons of steel a country produced, how much grain it harvested, how many tanks, ships, or aircraft it could build.
So why the change?
Because GNP doesn’t adequately account for services. As roughly 80% of the U.S. economy shifted to services and less than 20% remained in goods production, relying on GNP alone would significantly understate U.S. economic output. However, counting services introduces a major problem: their valuation is far more volatile and subjective than that of physical goods.
A case in point: China produced more ship tonnage in 2024 than the United States has produced since World War II combined. Yet the GDP impact of those ships is smaller than that of a few entertainers on world tours, or an NBA or MLB season.
And when the bullets start flying, which do you think matters more?
speaking of bullets: do you know that NATO and the EU collectively aimed to provide Ukraine with 1 million artillery shells by March 2024, yet it is almost 2026, that goal still hasn’t been met? North Korea, since got involved in 2024, provided at least 6 million shells. in the actual battle filed not reported by Reddit, Russian troops fires shells at 5:1 ratio than Ukraine. you would certainly not able to predict this if you look at the combined GDP of NATO been 25 times more than that of Russia and N.Korea.
CCP took a war-torn impoverished nation with a mostly rural uneducated population that’s many times the size of other nations, and was 150 years behind the developed nations in industrialization, and transformed China into the #2 economy in the world, poised to overtake America as #1, has some of the most modern cities in the world, and the leader in many tech fields.
Meanwhile American democracy took the uncontested world superpower post WW2 to what it is today
Americans will rabidly hate on china for no reason other than racist-fueled „CHINA BAD!“ then turns around and wish they had things that China already has, like affordable public healthcare and modern public transportation system