>China is a poor, third-world country.

No. It's a very dangerous economic and military juggernaut that abuses its population as well as the environment. Let's be real.

It's also part of the "second" world by the original definition.

So you put China and Burundi on the same category? Really?

"I" don't put them anywhere, these categories are pre-existent. The WTO puts Burundi in a different list, of least developed countries.

The point is that many countries are claiming that China is abusing its designation of “developing country” and want that designation revoked. China, of course, is fighting that tooth and nail.

The only reasons that China passes the sniff test is because they have the biggest population that skews averages and because they also have insane income inequality. Only CCP propagandists would try to insist that a nation with the money for nukes and aircraft carriers is still “developing” :^)