800 million people out of poverty is a stretch but if you wanted to make that claim

Yeah, where do these stupid tankies get these numbers anyway? I'm sure China says they lifted 800 million kajillion people out of poverty or whatever, but let's see what a western source like, say, The World Bank has to say about it.

it’s because the west spent so much money to get goods from China.

I swear these arguments get worse every day. You could just as easily say that the only reason the West has so much stuff is because China made it for them for cheap.

Wait, that's actually a much more coherent argument lol.