Having boasted about successfully eradicating poverty that was plaguing the country for over four decades, China has found itself unsuccessful in backing up the claim with verified data. President Xi, after assuming power in 2015, had ambitiously avowed that he would make China poverty-free a decade before the year set by the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. China is rather infamous when it comes to forging information to feed its megalomania at a global level. Despite the supposed poverty reduction, there exists a huge income gap between the city and village people. Thus, the terms “education”, “food”, and “shelter” used by the Chinese Government do not overlap the common understanding of the terms.

Source: Punch January 24, 2021 23:03 UTC