The last few decades has seen the largest and fastest movement of people from absolute poverty to relative middle class. The last few years has seen factories along the coastal cities of China beginning to compete for labour by raising wages, because many migrant workers are choosing to move back to their inland cities, where the economy is beginning to flourish.

No, it's not pretty, and it's going to stay not pretty for a while. But buying goods from China, and buying a lot, is the best foreign aid money can buy.