Chinese-Dragon
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theres a popular theory here in the west that China is the only second world country in the world. the same people perceive Russia as a second world country as well.
Bro there is no comparison between China and Indias economy, for such a populous country 5 trillion is nothing by 2025. your economy and their economy isn't even a competition they are loosing so badly.
China is everything Modi secretly dies to be.
Technically China is a 2nd world country because it was part of the Communist bloc during the Cold War, but in modern usage "3rd world country" simply means a developing country, which China is.
Russia is different, they industrialized a long time ago.
In the UNSC P5... China is the only "3rd world country" there.
And? How does it matter ? BTW! All these nominal GDP based comparison are worthless when you are taking about domestic consumption and production of goods and services. People eat food not dollars. PPP makes more sense. In that India's GDP is actually 2.5-3 times smaller to China.
GDP by PPP is useful in a per capita sense for measuring living standards, but it's not useful for comparing the economic power of nations.
China is already the largest economy by PPP, but nobody says that China is the largest economy in the world. It's just a feel good measure to make developing countries feel better about their condition.