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Mick China's east Asian neighbours - Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore - did a far better job at lifting their citizens out of poverty, and they did it without resorting to the authoritarian measures Beijing has resorted to.

The only people looking to Beijing as a model are tin pot dictatorships who want to retain a one party system, and people in the west, generally far left or far right, who have a visceral self-loathing of their own societies. And even they are dreaming, as China is not the workers paradise some on the far left imagine, nor the bastion of traditional values that some on the far right imagine.