You linked a source repeating your earlier claim about the raw number of people lifted out of poverty. Again, I ask, what about per-capita income?

Yeah, because I didn’t make any claims about per-capita income. That’s how sources work.

China received extensive aid from the USSR.

Lol? That’s a joke right?

You never heard about a little thing called the Sino-Soviet split? Even before that, the Soviets had plenty of their own problems, they were nowhere near as wealthy as the US and were struggling to survive and rebuild from WWII, and again, that much smaller aid for a much shorter period of time was distributed to a much larger population.

Do you understand what “per capita” means?

Yes I know what per capita means.

It would be far more impressive for a country of one million people to lift 950,000 people out of poverty than for a nation of 1 billion people to lift 800 million people out of poverty.

Not really, no.

Why? I see no reason for this.

Because modernization in developing countries is dependent on foreign technologies that have to spread to a much wider area, and that takes time.

It’s the only meaningful way to compare countries.

I don’t really understand why we’re comparing countries.

Otherwise you just end up making brain-dead conclusions like, “the big country has the big number. Therefore it’s better.”

That is not remotely close to anything I’ve said or believe.