Talk politics.

The other side of why they're more prosperous is that having more laborers and undemocratic societies means that corporations are free to kill their workers for more profits with the consent of the government knowing that if there are 1 billion people under the rule of a state the supply of workers will be inexhaustible. The other *other* side of it is that China traditionally is an economic powerhouse, it stopped being one from civil war and invasion, its recovery was to be expected short of more civil war and invasion. The other other *other* side is that the CCP is respected for having made deliberate efforts to rehabilitate and to expand areas of China's government neglected by prior regimes and for keeping the boundaries of China at the second-largest they've ever been in totality, not for creating prosperity in itself.