Is China a developed country? A long and better answer
This article doesn&#x27;t quite make sense to me. It keeps confusing per capita with overall size. Like the old joke goes, America has more people per capita.<p>Going by the same logic, can we say that India is more developed than Singapore? And all the small anecdotes showing developed status such as that GIF of Shanghai growing or skyscrapers in Chinese cities are misleading and pointless. You could take similarly modern photos in cities of developing countries all over the world. That doesn&#x27;t make any of them any more developed.<p>And statements like these are patently absurd: &quot;But few of them other than China have produced companies with enough money and ambition to put one of their products in the hands of Iron Man and have ads splashed all over soccer stadiums at the World Cup&quot;. Most developing countries are home to large corporations as well. Burger King is Brazilian and I&#x27;m sure it has placed ads in many prominent events. Does this mean that Brazil is suddenly no longer a developing nation?<p>And the last part about how a country cannot be classified into developing or developed status because of inequality makes absolutely no sense at all. Sure Shanghai is developed compared to Yunnan. But that&#x27;s not the point. The point is that as a whole, China is still very poor. As long as a large part of the country is poor and in need of modern infrastructure, it is developing. As compared to countries like Japan where almost EVERY part of it is developed. That&#x27;s the whole point.<p>The US created the rules of WTO. Now it wants to change the rules when it thinks it is not winning by resorting to semantic games like these.