Here's a new angle on the usual racist, warmongering propaganda that makes these "anti-war" politicians lock arms with the most rabidly fascist US politicians. Let's have a butcher's at what's being "reported" now in this thread!
Australian Strategic Policy Institute? Oh you mean the "non partisan" right wing pro-regime change think tank created by the Australian government with the aid of the Department of Defense.
They say they're independent though, that's probably true, right?
Wrong!
Ooh boy that's a rogues' gallery of companies involved in genocide, war crimes, regime change, imperialism and more.
A socialist society doesn't *need* billionaires, of course.
Billionaires - although it's more accurate to point the lens at large businesspeople of any net worth - are a byproduct of the period of reform and opening up which allowed private property and foreign investment.
Because at the time of Mao's death, despite the monumental advances in income, length and quality of life, etc, China was still one of the poorest countries on the planet. Its GDP was about 2% of what it is today. Underdevelopment was rife.
How does a country as populous as China develop?
Above all, by developing infrastructure. Power generation and distribution, industry, basic services, transportation and so on. A lot of these things are costly and difficult to build at the scale China needs.