Without even checking your stats, every stat from tightly controlled territories is juked. Only fifth chief statistician under stalin held his position after four previous were educated on how to count with a firing squad. USSR "prevailed against imperialism" the same way, until it didn't.
But when it comes to owning a home in China, you can't do it - because you can't own the land, only lease it. So effectively, anything could happen with your home.
Then, construction in China is a pyramid scheme. Highly praised amount of infrastructure and empty ghost cities is an effect of that [0]. Combine that with rampant corruption (guanxi)[1] and culture of corner-cutting (chabuduo)[2], and you will end with bridges and multi-story buildings crumbling like sand, waiting to collapse at any moment.
All of that with an addition of aging population due to half-witted decisions of delusional, unchecked power (one child policy) leaves China with construction it wont be able to maintain, not even with immigrants, because of recent decisions of tribal nationalism[3][4].
Trends are saturated about China's prosperity and superiority. But if you want actual prosperity - you cant rely on algorithms alone.[5]
With your stats you imply that a person could feel safe owning a home in China. Could you feel safe accounting for all of that?
I switched over to Zoho, has a lot of the same tools (mail/users/office) but UI is much more tech-y / old-school it e.g. more dense. Gets to the point.
I also use it with my own domain registered outside Zoho, so Zoho cannot actually lock me out of my email ever, only the data they host, though this is true for external domains in Google Workspace also.
It kept him out of office for four years. It could have more impact.
As bad as Trump is (and he's bad) he's still nowhere near as bad as Xi is.
Let's look at the Six Defining Characteristics of Totalitarianism (Friedrich and Brzezinski, 1956):
* An elaborate guiding ideology [typcially focused around patriotism and loyalty to the state above all else]
* A single political party, typically led by a dictator
* Use of instruments of terror such as violence and secret police to control the population
* A government monopoly on weapons
* A government monopoly on means of communication (such as state-controlled media and heavy censorship)
* A state-controlled economy
In none of those categories is the United States as far along as the PRC under Xi. At least one of those categories would require a large amount of bloodshed for the US to reach the level that China is.
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