I believe the restriction is not tied up with TLD or ccTLD at all or with age of the domain.
If you are a publisher from India or china - restriction is applicable only for new applicants - i.e if I create an adsense account, and reside in India / China - then
I should have a site that is over 6 months of age for Google to accept my application. Also note that Google restricts other locations as well (but not listed out on the page - only India and China are singled out on the page)
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In some locations, including China and India, we also require publishers to have owned their sites for 6 months.
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@ Ceres - The list of SPAM does point all fingers at US for largest SPAM origin, however the site monitors email spam as against websites that are created exclusively for click frauds. I don't know if there is any monitoring agency that is monitoring website spam (sites created for virus / attacks / advertising / misleading etc.)
@ msdomains - Google is not pointing out to host location. So Mitsu and other web host providers do not really get affected by this. Also most of the datacenters are in US (for Mitsu, Whiz and Pubdomains) - and very few based out of India. So even if you are hosting your website with any registrar that belongs to India / China - you can still apply for Adsense account - as long as you have a site that has been on the net for over 6 months.
Neat way to reduce the number of applicants - and undoubtedly - a discrimination against two emerging economies...