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OP is clearly presenting a simplified picture for sake of discussion, which made me wonder what populations or regions he might be leaving out.

– Most populous continent not discussed: Africa [1]

– Most populous country not discussed: Indonesia [1]

– Biggest economy not discussed: Japan [2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)

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The author is based in Taiwan. I believe he would have good insight into developments and trends in Asian regions generally.

That's a very interesting list of absent economies that you posted though. We don't hear much from the telecom/internet backbone from those areas... perhaps they don't have as much local development and rely more on US/China based developments and infrastructure.

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