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  • The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China further proposed that the 15th Five-Year Plan period should deliver decisive progress towards basically achieving socialist modernisation. This is not merely a qualitative aspiration; it also comes with firm quantitative requirements. One key benchmark is that per capita GDP should reach the level of moderately developed countries. Using 2025 figures, the entry threshold is roughly US$25,000 to US$26,000. China’s per capita GDP in 2024 was US$13,500. In other words, per capita GDP would need to roughly double over the next ten years to meet that benchmark.

    I thought that was an interesting choice to use per capita GDP not adjusted for PPP. Anyone know the rationale behind that decision? I checked with a quick search online and found a value of $27,104 for China’s per capita GDP (PPP). I couldn’t find an equivalent figure (i.e. adjusted for PPP) for the entry threshold of $25,000 to $26,000 quoted above. Isn’t the non-adjusted number subjected to price fluctuations between currencies? I’m interested in learning what advantage the non-adjusted GDP gives over the adjusted one, in this case.

    https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?locations=4E









  • Fluoride naturally occurs in groundwater in varying concentrations. Optimal concentrations inhibit bacterial growth and help maintain enamel. Excessive fluoride concentrations can cause fluorosis, especially in kids.

    With fluorosis basically the fluoride ions have overaccumulated in the teeth or skeleton, which messes with bone metabolism and can cause osteoporosis, osteosclerosis, arthritis, and/or loss of tooth enamel, depending on where and how severely the body is affected. These problems are endemic to certain regions of the world with high fluoride in the ground, like the Great East African Rift Valley.

    Too low and you get faster tooth decay. Too high and the fluoride causes bone problems. There’s plenty of research into fluorosis and it’s pretty well understood. That’s more or less the typical research-based explanation of fluoride. Then there’s the Alex Jones, RFK brainworm story of fluoride which is completely different.