If China is so well managed, why are they so poor [1], so corrupt [2] , have up to 1M people in jail due purely to their ethnicity, and every citizen monitored at all times for a thought or statement tantamount to 'wrongthink'?

China is not 'well managed', rather, they can 'move quickly and build things of questionable quality' in some places, not others.

The ability to build some material things very quickly is definitely useful and creates some utility, but it's not tantamount to 'well managed'.

SF has busses, trains and a subway that run, it's far from perfect, but what they suffer from is 'too much money'.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/gdp-per-capita/#:~:text=Gr....

[2] https://www.transparency.org/en/