My uncle went to Romania in the 80's. He met many Bulgarian,romanian engineers and scientists and felt that Romania has excellent technical know how and if Romania and Bulgaria became independent from Soviet influence, their computer industry would be able to rival silicon valley.
But alas he was wrong. The traitors who rose from the so called revolutions totally destroyed the Bulgarian computer industry and the romanian technical know how.
Today they have this :
Romanians like Iulia vantur. Look at them dancing in Bollywood item songs.
I went to Guangzhou recently and felt it was better than my experience in New York. Also it houses the most powerful Supercomputer in Tianhe district where the Hotel Sofitel and tianhe sports plaza is located .
China may be a dictatorship but it is very well developed and increasingly first world. Though Chinese men in Guangzhou seem to have forgotten marital arts and their bodies are too thin. No muscles at all.