David Underwood from Citrus Heights
If you go to China and see the traffic, the transportation systems, the local markets, and the population in general, you will see far more people living better than those in Indian cities. The can not all be members of the elite.
Go to any park, the Forbidden City, the Bundt in Shanghai and you will see just how much better off the Chinese are than the Indians.
India is not really a Democratic country. It is run by an elite core of bureaucrats who have more regulations and restrictions that those in China. Call it what you may, but it is not Democratic.
Jan. 20, 2013 at 2:52 p.m.RECOMMENDED19
nomad from Canada
Sorry but you're grossly overestimating the contribution of American capital to China's growth. The lion's share of China's foreign investment comes from other Asian countries (with Hong Kong and Taiwan contributing about half of the total), while America contributing only 10 or 15%.
I just took a 3-week road trip in China's relatively poor Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, immediately followed by a 3-week road trip in India's Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh surrounding its capital Delhi. The contrast between the two countries could not have been greater: China has gleaming new highways even in remote mountainous areas, beautiful new urban parks and landscaped streets in even minor cities like Xichang and Miyi that few foreigners have heard of, and no visible abject poverty anywhere urban or rural. India was the complete opposite: congested potholed roads everywhere, homeless people sleeping in roadside tents in cities and villages, and even in Udaipur, reputedly India's most beautiful city, you cannot walk a few steps in its streets without stepping on cow dung or being run over by a tuk tuk. Not to mention Agra, which is literally an open sewer as soon as you step outside the gates of the Taj Mahal.
From my personal experience, I have to agree with the author and make the conclusion that he dared not state openly: although we would like to believe otherwise, the Chinese totalitarianism has worked out far better for its people than the Indian democracy.
Jan. 21, 2013 at 3:16 a.m.RECOMMENDED2
If you go to China and see the traffic, the transportation systems, the local markets, and the population in general, you will see far more people living better than those in Indian cities. The can not all be members of the elite.
Go to any park, the Forbidden City, the Bundt in Shanghai and you will see just how much better off the Chinese are than the Indians.
India is not really a Democratic country. It is run by an elite core of bureaucrats who have more regulations and restrictions that those in China. Call it what you may, but it is not Democratic.
Jan. 20, 2013 at 2:52 p.m.RECOMMENDED19
nomad from Canada
Sorry but you're grossly overestimating the contribution of American capital to China's growth. The lion's share of China's foreign investment comes from other Asian countries (with Hong Kong and Taiwan contributing about half of the total), while America contributing only 10 or 15%.
I just took a 3-week road trip in China's relatively poor Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, immediately followed by a 3-week road trip in India's Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh surrounding its capital Delhi. The contrast between the two countries could not have been greater: China has gleaming new highways even in remote mountainous areas, beautiful new urban parks and landscaped streets in even minor cities like Xichang and Miyi that few foreigners have heard of, and no visible abject poverty anywhere urban or rural. India was the complete opposite: congested potholed roads everywhere, homeless people sleeping in roadside tents in cities and villages, and even in Udaipur, reputedly India's most beautiful city, you cannot walk a few steps in its streets without stepping on cow dung or being run over by a tuk tuk. Not to mention Agra, which is literally an open sewer as soon as you step outside the gates of the Taj Mahal.
From my personal experience, I have to agree with the author and make the conclusion that he dared not state openly: although we would like to believe otherwise, the Chinese totalitarianism has worked out far better for its people than the Indian democracy.
Jan. 21, 2013 at 3:16 a.m.RECOMMENDED2