> Here, you are confusing per capita and overall again. Why do labels no longer matter just because China is larger than most nations? Does per capita income no

> Here, you are confusing per capita and overall again. Why do labels no longer matter just because China is larger than most nations? Does per capita income no longer work the same way if the population size is larger? What really scares people about China is that it is a developing country that does not behave like a developing country. It is actually getting better, making more right moves than not, and it is setting itself up to become a major contributor to the planet's wealth. This absolutely terrifies many in the West who had always thought China would "follow the playbook" and not become much more than a corrupt, heavily indebted "workhorse economy" where manufacturing could be easily outsourced. > There are rich areas in many South American countries but no one would claim that these labels no longer matter for those nations just because there are some rich people or places. Why is it so different for China? The anti-China bigotry at work here by definition must take China to be exceptional. Any rational comparison of China to other nations would conclude pretty obviously that China is still, on the whole, desperately poor. But this is not about rational analysis and it probably never was.