You don't need to look at 1800 data, because it is irrelevant. If you want to show what CCP did, you have to show the data in range. [2] is the chart comparing India to China from 1950 - 2010, which is the period when CCP is in power. I wish economy, society and history is so easy and everyone can nail down to a single sentence on the root of any economy phenomena. I love how he describe being poor was because of arrogance, lol.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_GDP_of_China
[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/GD...
Edit: formatting