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I agree wholeheartedly with your point. China and India are in a similarly precarious position especially in regards to inequality. The urban centers and their peripheral regions in all three countries are lightyears ahead of the rural countryside. China as many before has pointed out has approx 200 million migrant workers. They have no permanent employment prospects in the cities they are migrating to and they are coming out of abject poverty to begin with.

India is in the same position. Cheating is of no consequence when they aren't enough schools to accomodate the population. And the disparity is not minor, it is catastrophic.

These middle income countries are all in a precarious position, so writing any one or all of them off is uneducated and foolish.