As I have usually been insulated from the more rabid of propaganda against China, it has allowed me to have a reasonable understanding of how China works and this was helped years ago by a lecturer from Shanghai who spent time in Australia on exchange between universities.
A big country with a turbulent history unified under Chairman Mao, the cultural revolution and a succession of leaders who have generally contributed to raising the living standards of a very large number of people.
In particular, the current leader, Xi Jinping is an interesting person, a man who emerged from a humble origin and with a good grasp of poverty in the past who has done much to raise many people from difficult living conditions so they have an income, a job and a reasonable living standard.
All countries have their own problems and China is no exception but in the great movements of history, much has been done in a relatively short period of time to raise China from the wreckage after WW2 to the status of an emerging economic super power.
