Re:Alibaba Cloud
by awkwarddaturtle on Sunday July 16, 2017 @02:11PM
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> Well it is in the South East of Asia.
No. It is in the NORTHEAST of asia.
"In common usage, the term Northeast Asia typically refers to a region including China.[2][3] In this sense, the core countries constituting Northeast Asia are China, Japan, North Korea, and South Korea."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Asia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Northeast_Asian_count...
If you don't even know simple things like geography and locations of major nations, why are you even talking about economics?
> Nation groupings aren't exactly scientific taxonomies.
We aren't talking nation groupings. We are talking GEOGRAPHY. NORTH/SOUTH/EAST/WEST.
A better comparison: S. Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam all started with sub $200 GDP/capita in 1960. As of last year, S. Korea's has exploded to ~27k, while Thailand and others are below $6k.