I’m not sure who’s engaging more in hyperbole - you or Yegge. China eliminating poverty to a greater degree than the US isn’t a controversial statement - China accounts for 75% of global poverty reduction from the 70s to now. Regardless if they were struggling to eat a generation ago, the Chinese have made a complete turn around in the past 40 years. Finally even if Chinese health care today isn’t exceptional (I can’t say for sure as I haven’t looked into it), the Chinese are at least currently transitioning to a national healthcare system. I can understand Yegge’s frustration - in the long run worse system that is improving will eventually beat out a better system that is stagnating.

All in all, China has already “risen”. To pretend that China is still 3rd world ghetto of the 90s is to ignore that fact at our own peril