> Ukraine is just 500km from Vienna those are two vastly different independent countries. > how developed it is can we just cut all cheap talks and focus on

> Ukraine is just 500km from Vienna those are two vastly different independent countries. > how developed it is can we just cut all cheap talks and focus on undisputed facts and numbers? the undisputed facts here is extremely simple - 1. China's official GDP per capita is well below world's average. 2. The research in the OP article shows such official figure is highly inflated. You can keep painting China as "developed" or "developed in some selected areas", the above undisputed facts won't change. Hundreds of millions of Chinese live well below the world average standard when it comes to their economic lives. Selectively ignoring the real life situation of hundreds of millions just to back what you believe is not that convincing.