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To paraphrase Asimov:

If you think that South Africa is absolutely egalitarian, you're wrong.

If you think that Norway is absolutely egalitarian, you're also wrong.

But if you think that "South Africa is egalitarian" is as wrong as "Norway is egalitarian", then your views are more wrong than both of them combined.

To state that no country is absolutely egalitarian does not mean that "China is hardly egalitarian" has to be wrong. And even if some other country (say Norway) were to be as hierarchical as China, that would not disprove the claim that China is hardly egalitarian. It would just mean there exist other inegalitarian countries too.