STOP BLAMING CHINA, THE U.S. NEEDS A REVOLUTION

In Africa today, 35% of people live in extreme poverty while many of our leaders remain Western puppets, emulating systems that have failed. China, on the other hand, over the last 40 years or so, has lifted around 800-million Chinese people out of extreme poverty. In February 2021, President Xi Jinping announced that his country - whose population is similar to that of Africa’s and around four times larger than the US’s - had fully eradicated extreme poverty, accounting for nearly 75% of global poverty reduction during this period.

While China's economic model has lifted its population into a growing middle class, in the US, that class has dwindled as a result of a system that benefits a wealthy few rather than the majority. Yet, China remains the target of much American public anger over economic woes. In this video, TikToker @neil778027 delves deeper into the comparison between the US and China. He explains why the US struggles with crumbling infrastructure, rising healthcare costs, educational barriers (student-loan debt totalled $1.777 trillion in 2024), growing income inequalities and limited social mobility. Meanwhile, China’s economic model is designed to transform the daily lives of its citizens through better infrastructure, healthcare and education.

Washington invests more in imperialism - under the guise of 'defence' - and military might than it does on social programmes to improve the livelihoods of Americans at home. Consequently, it has played a prominent role in the destabilisation of countries of the Global South, such as the Congo, where a US- and Belgian-backed assassination k*lled the country's revolutionary leader, Patrice Lumumba.

As African countries continue to chart a path for their own economies, perhaps it is time to stop relying on Western debt and remember that there are other socio-political and economic models, beyond Western capitalist ones, that are built around the needs of the majority.

Video Credit: @neil778027 (TikTok)

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