At no point were the Chinese living in worse conditions than Indians. At no point. Indians just love to imagine their country as "China of the past" sorry but that is nothing but a wild fantasy.
Mao still tried to implemented voluntary birth control which inspired later successors to impliment the one-child policy, seeing voluntary family planning wasn't enough.
Mao's China spent tens of billions of dollars in today's money backing revolutions in Asia and Africa when Chinese were living in same or worse conditions some people in India were living. Chinese in 1950s were poorer than Indians in 2022.
Mao's China had famine that left tens of millions dead
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