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Wild to consider the country with the largest highspeed rail network on earth "developing."
I know regions of India and China would be considered “developing” by any standard but as a country, if you’re doing fucking moon missions on homegrown rockets, you don’t need foreign aid.
And nuclear programs and aircraft carriers and belt and road initiatives and.. the list is pretty long for India and china.
I think its critical is realize the outward appearance of "development" is not a true state of a country, but usually a sign of huge wealth disparity between the richest and poorest. India certainly is a victim of this where there are essentially two societies within the country. I'm not sure of China since no news coming from can be considered trustworthy.
In fact, the "developing country" tag is usually used for marketing to attract investment.
I've spent months travelling all over China.
It's got amazing infrastructure everywhere and more going up everywhere. Streets are clean. People are healthy. No beggars. Certainly not "developing country" in the sense that Laos or Cambodia are "developing country".
Seems like a binary distinction between developed and developing is too clunky. We need at least 3 categories, maybe 4.
“No beggars”, yeah because they get shipped away. China is nothing if not very careful on how it presents an image to the world. Let’s look at the metric of “can you drink the tap water” if we’re picking random metrics. By that metric, no, China is not developed.
That's very interesting, thank you. I'd heard about Chinas progress but GDPs & mega projects aside, its good to know regular people are doing better too.
However, I'd argue we need fewer categories, if at all. Developed & Under-developed, either you're doing well or not. Keeping it simple might make it actionable: you need hit certain basic metrics to be considered developed.
For sure it's a scale and it should be one that goes down not just up. Would be great for everyone to be honest on this but its anything but honest especially within
China is the best in the world when it comes to window dressing. They still have a lot of rural poverty.