Waren, not to make this a pissing contest but I fly into China nearly every day I go to work, I emphasise China because they have very bad ATC, talk to each other in Mandarin ( the rest of Asia use english ), very restrictive airspace ( difficult to get diversions around wx ) and extremes of wx, ie snow in winter, TS and Typhoons in summer. having spent some decades trudging around Oz, I can tell you it's a lot more difficult flying in the good old PRC.
You are right though, this does not mean some pilot from up here will be any better than someone already in
VB, was just curious as to someones comment about flying into a mountain
Cheers