This is my ranking of Asian countries in terms of their global influence and historical contribution.
We start with SSS,
China and India are planetary civilizations unto themselves, that influenced not only their homelands, but all of SE Asia, Central Asia, and the entire world.
Saudi Arabia birthed Islam, it is the lone country in SS as a result. Islam has shaken our world since it was born in the Arabian desert,
Modern Saudi Arabia is also in the midst of a modern renaissance.
In S, we have two giants in Japan and Russia that shook Asia tremendously in the 19th and 20th century.
They fail to reach SSS and SS mainly because their influence was not as dominant pre 19th century.
Outdated perceptions that the mainstream won't get until like 2040,
- Asia is to the current world what Europe was to it in 1900, the center of global progress.
- France is now the world's best footballing country, not Brazil.
- All Anglo healthcare systems are terrible.
- Singapore and Dubai are the new actual Switzerland, Switzerland is over.
- Ethnic groups who spend all the time debating gender wars will lag behind other ethnic groups who don't.
- American presidential elections largely are just kayfabe.
- Afrobeats is likely past its creative peak, it'll continue having hits but it's entering its overbloated commercial era, kinda like where Rap was around 2001/2002.
- No one under 30 in Africa seriously regards either Nigeria or South Africa as continental powers/giants.