There are people somewhat literate in Chinese that agree in the comments and I've heard this rhetoric among younger people personally.
You have to understand that nepotism, scamming and getting away with it, and being delivered rewards that aren't earned, have a great deal of attraction among overseas Chinese descendants who are admittedly too overworked for a society that will never appreciate or reward them. And they were brainwashed by parents to never go back to China.
I would have laughed them off to their face if they were going to say that laughable nonsense about India's superiority and their vaunted "democracy" crap. Face it: some of those Chinese are bums a.k.a. just want to have it easy like leeches by living off the backs of their parents rather than through their own merits. And some of those "hard working" Chinese whose careers did not meet their demented expectations are entirely on them. Their failures have nothing to do with China since I can only surmise and assume that they are more likely than not to shit on See See Pee China whenever their co-workers shit on the country, hoping and wishing it would inoculate, inculcate them from being seen as commie Chinese. But, in the end, those are just lame excuse for their piss poor lame performance and lack of social skills.
If "democracy" were such the lone superduper criteria for Indians perceived success, then, why has people in the west of Japanese heritage no attain the same rate of success? Considering that not only are that country a supposed Democracy, but have also produced world beating and world conquering electronic, automobile, fashion, entertainment products. Where's the Japanese C.E.O's, or business executives that should have been leading a lot of White Western companies? How about the K-Pop people? Why are their group of folks not being in positions of power in many American and European boardrooms?
If you look at the number of countries that are well run in Asia, like Japan, Singapore, China, South Korea, R.O.C. (Taiwan), the city of Hong Kong what do they have in common? And one would have imagined and thought that people from Singapore, Japan, S.K. Taiwan would have been the sought after people to lead western companies, instead, they pluck people from Hindustan/Bharat land? That's the burning question that must be asked to those idiots, and the lack of success from East Asians do not stem from the stupid argument of "political system" since I have shown that there are other places that are under a democratic system that still do not get the proper representation it should have received.
Final thing: Show those weed smoking, and lazy bums these videos of how the amazing super duper talented democratic India run their bestest city in India, Mumbai vs. Suzhou a tier 2 city (now tier 1) in China. I rest my case.
Mumbai: Fort District (Elite neighbourhood)
Suzhou (Pingjiang Road)