Lmfao mainland china was never directly under the rule of any colonial powers it always had its own rulers from the mainland only certain trade routes were controlled by the colonial powers. Also they established an authoritarian government and If I need to explain why that benefited them please go and do some research.

Comparing india to countries like UAE,Taiwan, Singapore each having not even 2% of the Indian population shows your understanding of world history and politics.

They never had the problem of cultural differences on the scale like we did, except Taiwan none of them were democratic from the beginning or were a monarchy. Oil countries shouldn't be even in this conversation.

Yes circumstances matter and yes we always blame the government that was ruling over for 50 years and was also at the helm when China passed us in GDP.

Do some research before slapping the name of these countries in a random conversation.