Most Asians are not Chinese. USA is objectively much less of a shit hole than Philippines or Indonesia. Even South Korea is only somewhere between first and second tier cities in China, at the cost of having zero labor protections and an extremely toxic society.
The only really developed country living standards nations in Asia are China, Japan and Singapore.
Of course, it's America's occupation that has made the other countries so bad. Which in turn lets US keep stealing from them and corrupting their politicians. Either a military (pacific war) or a military-geopolitical strategy (Gorbachev model) is required to lift the American oppression in Asia and bring all other Asian countries into modernity.