It's not that we did well; it's just that someone else flopped harder than us!
Seeing Singapore too, it seems the 'city-state + Confucian culture' debuff is just too OP.
"Netizens are celebrating 'escaping' the #1 spot not because Korea improved, but because their neighbors are crashing even harder, though most suspect the official stats from China are heavily 'massaged'."
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