How should India view China ?
Granted that both the countries fought a war in 1962 in which India dearly paid for, for not using it's superior air power, the question that always ring in my mind is whether India and China are competitors ? Each nation is so different. China is undoubtedly the manufacturing super power and India the knowledge super power. China is trying to encourage knowledge based industry and India is also trying to bring world-class manufacturing capability.
The two countries have a population of over a billion, almost 4 times that of USA. With 300M people if USA can create such a big economy, can India and China not create a humongous economy by themselves ? Heck why should they create it. It already exists. The only real fact is that much of that economy is not measured by any modern statistical means that can be verified.
Leaving the economies aside, the countries are culturally unique and divergent. Except for border area disputes that the two countries are quite successfully negotiating, there appears no military threat per se from China or from India to each other. So why do people keep comparing the growth of China to the growth of India ? It certainly gives an appearance of another attempt by western countries to keep the asian superpowers seperated so they can divide and rule at a much larger scale.
China and India have coexisted peacefully for thousands of year and have contributed to each other's cultural wealth. They have traded Tea for Tao and have had distinguished literary figures in each others courts. They also have a number of internal problems that leave them little time to play games with each other. Yes they are going to compete for the same dollar or yen or pound available for investment but they are no way near cannibalizing each other.
Yes China is communist and India is democratic, at least on paper. That makes no difference whatsoever. Each country has to choose the best method of governance. Chinese governmental actions especially with respect to business will make Lenin and Stalin squirm in their grave. China's communism is practiced with iron hand to maintain so called calmness and stability in the country. How long will it last, Will the Chinese people riot and over throw the communism and have the necessary will power to establish another model of governance is all a big IF and has no bearing on it's relation with neighbors. IMO, China and India are complimentary. Its no secret that China has a lot of puppet politicians in India that only shows Indian politicians decadence rather than Chinese machiavelliness.
As the famous politician said, Hindi-Chini bhai bhai should never become Hindi-Chini bye bye....
Written under duress by a slave,
The two countries have a population of over a billion, almost 4 times that of USA. With 300M people if USA can create such a big economy, can India and China not create a humongous economy by themselves ? Heck why should they create it. It already exists. The only real fact is that much of that economy is not measured by any modern statistical means that can be verified.
Leaving the economies aside, the countries are culturally unique and divergent. Except for border area disputes that the two countries are quite successfully negotiating, there appears no military threat per se from China or from India to each other. So why do people keep comparing the growth of China to the growth of India ? It certainly gives an appearance of another attempt by western countries to keep the asian superpowers seperated so they can divide and rule at a much larger scale.
China and India have coexisted peacefully for thousands of year and have contributed to each other's cultural wealth. They have traded Tea for Tao and have had distinguished literary figures in each others courts. They also have a number of internal problems that leave them little time to play games with each other. Yes they are going to compete for the same dollar or yen or pound available for investment but they are no way near cannibalizing each other.
Yes China is communist and India is democratic, at least on paper. That makes no difference whatsoever. Each country has to choose the best method of governance. Chinese governmental actions especially with respect to business will make Lenin and Stalin squirm in their grave. China's communism is practiced with iron hand to maintain so called calmness and stability in the country. How long will it last, Will the Chinese people riot and over throw the communism and have the necessary will power to establish another model of governance is all a big IF and has no bearing on it's relation with neighbors. IMO, China and India are complimentary. Its no secret that China has a lot of puppet politicians in India that only shows Indian politicians decadence rather than Chinese machiavelliness.
As the famous politician said, Hindi-Chini bhai bhai should never become Hindi-Chini bye bye....
Written under duress by a slave,
posted by Karthik S at
7:38 PM
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