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There are many take aways from here, but majorly my observations:
1. China has a lot of tangible infra, while India has a lot of intangible infra.
2. China has focused on primary & secondary education, while India has focused on higher education in line with Nehru's idea of Oxford/Cambridge.
3. China has 200 million poor living on less than $2 a day, which is more poor people than in India in the same earning bracket.
4. China has 800 million living in rural areas and as such prosperity has not begun to sink into the interior - a satellite picture of night time China reveals only east China along the coast has developed.
5. Just 30 years back India had better infra and they had same Income per Capita, but since then China has constructed some 30,000 miles of multi laned highways, and today per capita is 3x India's.
6. Chinese students don't ask qs in class, such is their culture! They are poor at abstract/logical thinking. Individualism is discouraged.
7. China wants the world to believe it is generous and has no expansionist policies in the string of pearls.
8. ZTE is an example of a Communist Party owned company that made merry in the telecom opportunity as it came up. The radio show host was driven around in a golf cart!
9. China believes this is pentagon inspired paranoia- string of pearls - a term coined by pentagon to create trouble in Asia.
10. Bangladesh, Pakistan, Myanmar, Srilanka- all peripheral states in the great battle stand to gain a lot from Indo China rivalry.
11. China contests India's assertion that Indian ocean is it's private back yard and talks of interdependence- being accustomed to each other- ie even as American and Indian navies reign supreme today in this region that may change with time. Indian Navy ships may take up responsibilities in sea of China.
12. The solution to the boundary question will come when both nations are powerful and mature enough to believe in give and take- rather than arousing passionate nationalistic sentiments in their people which is typical of growing nations.
13. India is only slightly behind China and by all indicators will close the gap. The listeners are implored into not believing what they outwardly see in China.
14. Government has zero accountability in China. People have no say in Government. Some Chinese professor though said he pities the Indian system of chaos where opposition opposes for the sake of opposing and has no financial stake in the protest.
15. Chinese elites are realizing that a lot of the prosperity has come through peace, and since it is a top down approach in China, the common man is somewhat alienated- fancy toys like maglevs dont appeal to him, he wants clean safe drinking water which is yet to reach many Chinese villages.
17. There are NIIT teachers teaching HTML to Chinese in China!
18. China's biggest mistake in 3 decades is the one child policy. They will run out of people to take care of their old. The Govt of China will give it a quiet burial as it cannot make a public admission of its mistake.
19. Chinese are pragmatic. They dont want to make enemies.
20. India and China are not pally, but they may not be as estranged as the media sometimes makes them out to be. Elites in both countries know the other possesses the capability for some serious damage infliction should things come to such a pass.
21. Chinese policy makers believe the west is ahead because of their infra, if you have caught up with their infra catching up with their economies shan't take too long.
22. In Nandigram India has shown it can be as brutal as China on its citizens when it comes to.
Where did you get the 800 million number?
Demographics of the People's Republic of China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Urban-rural ratio
* Urban: 42.3% (2007) — 562,000,000
* Rural: 57.7% (2007) — 767,000,000
0.577*1.3 = 0.75 = 750 million, in 2007. Currently China's rural/urban divide is 50/50. Inaccurate statement by the BBC.
As of 2003, the distribution of urban household income:
* Average per capita disposable income by quintile: Y 9,061 [U.S.$1,095]
o first quintile: Y 3,285
o second quintile: Y 5,377
o third quintile: Y 7,279
o fourth quintile: Y 9,763
o fifth quintile: Y 17,431
Do note that even the first quintile, the poorest 20% of our population, have average incomes of 1.38 USD per day at prevailing exchange rates. This is in 2003 as well, 7 years earlier.
India Watch :: Poverty Line
"The World Bank's definition of the poverty line**, for under developed countries, like India, is US$ 1/day/person or US $365 per year. As per this definition, more than 75% of all Indians are, probably, below the poverty line!"
75% of india is poorer than our lowest 20%!
So please before spewing out BBC crap, fact-check. If you think the BBC is an extremely reliable source of news, i have some more news from the BBC that you might find interesting.
I also could not help but laugh at some of your assertions with no facts to back them up. There's no "Chinese mentality", china's population is larger than the whole world population in 1850, was there a "world mentality" in 1850? is this how all indians behave? take 1 source and then extrapolate completely unrelated data from that source? no wonder india is at least a century behind us.
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