10 years ago China is not doubt with lower per GDP and living stardard comapring Mexico, but even at that time, if we pick up some nation to coampre from Latino America, we pick up Brazil not Mexico. It has better industry chains and similar size of geographic, and independent forgein policy.
We treat Brazil as sample of development we should learn and some mistakes we should avoid "Latino trap", even my father's bachelor thesis was talking about former president of Brazil it's as early as 1980s.
For Mexico, sorry our soiecty don't treat it as any positive sample, even for most time after WWII, it's has higher per GDP, but it dosen't have its own industry chain and can't sustain longer. It was just suffering US's big corporate's bullies both on inudstry and agriculture.
I think for next 2 decades, China's per GDP will be still growth and become much higher than Mexicon, just like i witnessed how we overtake Thailand and Russia on the point of USD6000/per, USD10000/per.
Plus, i still hold my point, you label youself as part of western world, but they don't treat you like that, or you just the edge of wetern world, there are physical wall on norther, or invisibile wall in the heart.
At least they have functional goverments from centeral to district, do you have? co-governance with Narcos?
Please make your political system works first, then let's talk about it's Latino or western later.
J20 is not popular in our cyber, it's old topic now, the popular items is H20 and AC with nuclear power. Only you keep on so much interest here.
BTW, somebody said in Mexico, teh drug gangsers are more poweful than your army, is that true? Can you point our who's defence budget has better share in your GDP?
The future is not something you can predict, so quit it.
Present wise China is 85th placed in human development index, it means you barely you are at Brazils level.
Mexico is 74th, so that is what matters.
You live in the USA, but China is no USA, there are close to a billion people who live close to colombia or Brazil in standard of living so do not lie to your self most Chinese live like colombians.
You made an incredible advance moving from African style standards of living, to close to average Latin American, now the Latin trap you call is just a falacy.
China is developed in some areas, but per capita production, for example cars or high tech you are close to Mexico.
Since your population is 13 times higher the numbers are higher but most Chinese are poor.
Stop dreaming, you think J-20 represents you are living like Swiss people or Norwigians do not you?
Actually Brazil has a very well developed agriculture and industry.
J-20 only reflexes China as a third world country already has the technical capabilities of a major European power like Germany or Britan, but in reality while you have J-20s most Chinese struggle to live day to day.
You think we do not have technology, sorry you are wrong, we do, but since our populations are smaller our brands are too, is not that we do not have tech we do.
The reality is Latin America will continue advancing simply because globalization means the spread of technology, India too will advance too, in life everything is your standard of living, does not matter if you have nukes or J-20s as long as people are suffering, lacking food, does not matter.
We do have social problems, Mexico is not paradise, but you are also discriminated in the USA so do not bring me that hypocrite stament they do not treat us like western, now there is a lot anti-asian racism in the USA, so do not be a hypocrite.
We are western simply because our geography, we are Christians, republics, we have presidents and we use western alphabet and many of us have ancestors in Europe like I do.
In the west there is also developing countries, Mexico is one, it does not make me less American since I was born in the continent of North America.
So quit it