@bruceyg; most historians concur that the ill-conceived rapid development policies of Mao's regime resulted mainly in death by starvation for some 40 million Chinese people - your figure of 60 million may be correct but is at the high end of estimates.
Some people argue that China's one child policy has been equivalent to many tens of millions of deaths as well, but if had not been instituted what would the consequences have been - not only for China for the entire world. Reconciling such things is a fraught exercise.
So what have the wealthiest nations on Earth done to eradicate poverty and to prevent pandemics such as COVID-19? Using the yard stick applied to Chinese leaders, western leaders have even more to answer for!
At what stage do we start accrediting $Greed $Feeding climate change deniers like Abbott, Trump and Morrison for deaths caused by air pollution, global warming and environmental vandalism - not to mention all those $Cuts-$Cuts-$Cuts of overseas aid despite the efforts of people like Nancy Perosi and Julie Bishop as well as the Hell on Earth created throughout the Middle East?
