It's not actually the complete truth, you may have a point but you aren't putting it in the right way. It will be better this way if your have written that a country who benefits from another country will always be happy if that country is in steady decline, but a country who isn't exploiting another country has no reason to be happy or benefits from them having economical problem.
The country who celebrates the wretchedness and political mismanagement of a country are either their previous colonisers or a country who is exploiting them.
With how the world has been ordered there are countries that no matter what efforts they give into boosting their economy to be competitive they can't excel beyond their colonisers who have crafted an existing system of structure that is made to keep the former colonies dependent economically.
The economic competitions are patterned between the dominant countries, and between the weak countries. It is in this strata that the competitions are equal with the benefits. The opposite has been of unequal benefits the weaker countries soft-soaped into conditions that will never create an expansive development to her economy to be self-sufficient and indepe of their exploiters.