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50% is a lot of people mind you, 600 million. So India does have the language advantage. On the other hand, you ll be lucky to find someone proficient in English outside the major cities of China.
I don't think India conducts the test or has any say in the matter(being a non OECD state), the tests are conducted by OECD.
Besides this was the first time, they might conduct the test in respective mother tongue"s" in the 2012 test. It will be a nightmare for the people who conduct the test though, as they d have to make the test in at least 10-15 different languages.
I have been to China many times and it's indeed difficult to find someone really proficient in English, even in major cities like Shanghai. But then again, the same is here in Germany and most other EU countries. Most Germans, French and South Europeans don't speak English at all, even after at least five years of mandatory English class at school. So, I was wondering what advantage India has just because of English. We are doing quite well without being fluent in English.
In the EU the tests are done in 28 languages. So, there shouldn't be any problems to do that in India.