The point is simple, the neoliberal system did not help most countries gain relatively.
As for my factual points they are well researched.
Malaysia and Thailand are all World Bank defined middle income and not close to World Bank defined high income.
All the European countries you mention were already rich and industrialized pre WW2. The industrialization gap between European and non-European countries back then was unimaginably huge, even Imperial Japan was considered primitive compared to even the smallest, weakest European countries.
Simple example, Poland, commonly seen as a joke army that got rolled by Nazi Germany in a few days,
Armor wasn't much better,
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Poland could even build their own
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If Poland in 1939 was in Asia, they had the equipment to conquer land from ROC and fight Imperial Japan to a standstill, that's how backwards even the strongest Asian countries were against one of the poorest and weakest European ones.
Compare Czechoslovakia, a tiny country with 14 million population in 1931, to ROC or Imperial Japan.
. A tiny European country that surrendered to Nazi Germany within days had 5x more tanks than entire ROC and 1/4 as many tanks as Imperial Japan.
Basically, nobody could beat the Europeans pre WW2, it was not even close.
