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hehe, china will be become the largest economy at some point. its got 4x the people US does. japan would've overtaken USA during the late 80s / early 90s if it had an equal number of people and double the landmass. china is just huge.

iranians have a history of intellectualism. i like them despite all the bluster of the current regime and its ideological clients. its not a brain dead nation like a lot of what lies to its immediate west.

which other country is doing that e.g. ? my guess is that governments deal with governments. a government isn't going to slip aid anonymously to an ngo. probably doesn't work that way as a matter of practice. in case its a common practice, i'd be surprised and enlightened at the same time...

i want the f35 for india too. its just too good.

bihar is growing from a very low base. its gdp per capita is a fourth of the healthy ones. it'll take 10-15 years atleast to get where punjab is today if it continues at 11%.

there are major governance breakdowns in the sick states of india. there are judicial breakdowns in the sick states. there are no technocrats and there is little awareness among local leaders of how to promote development. unlike the central government, where there is a conscious though somtimes...

somehow i think it would be better to have tried to get on board the JSF. if the PAK-FA doesn't deliver or delivers less than promised for some reason, we're screwed vis a vis China.