Fair.<p>That said, my points still stands.  I used the 90s for contrast purposes.  The changes in China over the past 20 years are PROFOUND.  Over the past 10 years they are only slightly diminished but no less amazing.<p>I've been traveling to China annually for pretty much the last 6-7 years and lived there for an extended period of time a few years ago.  The changes have been dramatic in both urban and rural areas.  In fact I found change to be even more visible in the rural areas.  Literally over a year farm fields would be transformed to high-rises and cosmopolitan residential communities.<p>The changes in infrastructure/economic development has also fostered great changes/progress towards a more civil society, etc.<p>Even if we were just to compare 2000 vs 2010 the changes are great.  To say that there have been no major progress in 10 years and to suggest that South Korean and Japanese development in that same period of time has been greater than China's is patently absurd.  Like dum-dum circus absurd.