Why Is India Lacking Behind China?
Why is India Great?
Why India is divided ?
Why is India not Creative?
Sion-Indian relation - Is China benefiting more than India?
Why India is no villain
India and China are both rising titans, but only the latter has truly made her presence felt on the international scene.
I used to think that India, not China, would be the biggest rival to American economic hegemony; but that today seems fanciful. India is the 11th largest economy in the world. Not bad. But consider that it has 1.1billion people to China's 1.3billion, but India plays 11th to Chinese 2nd. And the India gross national product is less than a little more than 30million Canadians.
China hosted the Olympic Games with incredibly skill and precision, but India suffered international embarrassment recently after its efforts to host a major sporting event turned into a national disgrace with shabby housing, sickly centers and athletes suffering from such ineptitude.
Chinese infrastructure also leaves India behind. Six-land highways next to a nation still desperately in need of a nation network.
Why? India is not without innovativeness and its people certainly are ambitions. So why the falling behind against rival China? Democracy.
China is a nation strictly run by a central committee in contrast to the messy and disparate democracy - the world's largest democracy - in Delhi.
Democracy seeks to unite diverse and competing interests, but that makes compromise and legislative achievements and directs that much harder. A slower process. But I do believe that ultimately free societies induce the greatest prosperity.
India may not be behind much longer.
