And as usual add your peculiarly unpleasant way of saying things...

Sure, I've had train rides in China where the toilet was a hole in the corner of the carriage, and seen brick shacks in the desert with rows of turds like brown Mr whippies lined up on the back step.

But your ancestors were ignorant peasants, too. (And mine, for that).

Imagine the Ceramic industry required to make 1.2 billion toilet pans!

If you start from a very low point, even a small increase is major progress. If you have a huge population, then the demand resulting from even a very small increase is huge.

The impact of accelerating modernisation of China on the world will dominate the next few decades of geopolitics, IMHO.

The only question is whether they will climb to our level, or bring us down to theirs?