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Article Title: Can China Wipe Out Poverty By 2020?

Betteridge's Law of Headlines
Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word “no”.

tovarichpeter says

China to eliminate poverty in four years

Just change the definition of poverty, and voila. No more poverty.

Strategist says

Just change the definition of poverty, and voila. No more poverty

Yup, they will just say,'Anybody who has at least one meal in three days is considered above the poverty line." Poverty eliminated.

And then declare China to be a worker's paradise!
Shit . . . another one jumped. Can we get a cleanup on the frontage road please?

They're going to use the template of The Great Leap Forward:

"It is widely regarded by historians that The Great Leap resulted in tens of millions of deaths, estimated from 18 million to 32.5 to 46 million. Historian Frank Dikötter asserts that "coercion, terror, and systematic violence were the foundation of the Great Leap Forward" and it "motivated one of the most deadly mass killings of human history"

They could do it, they damn near have enough empty ghost Cities to give every man woman and child a luxury condo of their very own.