Technically China is 2nd World. 3 worlds classification came from Cold War 1st world being Blue Team USA and the West. 2nd world was the communist bloc. 3rd world were the nonaligned nations which were mainly in Africa and South America so the term became synonymous with poor backward countries.
Because it is. You realize their “concrete” is sometimes just styrofoam and garbage clad in a thin layer of the stuff, right?
Technically China is 2nd World. 3 worlds classification came from Cold War 1st world being Blue Team USA and the West. 2nd world was the communist bloc. 3rd world were the nonaligned nations which were mainly in Africa and South America so the term became synonymous with poor backward countries.