never mentions perhaps the most significant feature that stands out in any true comparison of capabilities between China and India.
And this is the will shown by the two countries to fight big time corruption!
Arpi bleats in shrill fashion that China is spending billions of dollars to develop infrastructure in Tibet.
By contrast, Arpi moans that Indian tax payers will have to bear an additonal burden of several lakh crores of rupees in order to counter China.
Arpi ought to have talked about the huge contrast between the ease at which China can spare billions of dollars for Tibet's infrastructural development and how India will compromise its fiscal deficit immensely more by raising its Mountain corps.
In other words, the fact that India is in a very very unsustainable scale of competition with China is never mentioned by the likes of writers such as Arpi.
Now, the subject of how China and India compare in terms of controlling corruption (which is the biggest leakage of financial muscle for any nation) will need pages and pages of enumeration, data and arguments.
But such labour can be saved and the argument brought down to just one line if how the Indian govt. has pampered gigantic thieves such as Mukesh Ambani while the Chinese have been hounding and purging such parasites in their market economy is mentioned!
In terms of feeding parasites such as Ambani, there has been no difference at all between the BJP led NDA and the Congress!
Re: Claude Arpi
by piri on Nov 16, 2014 11:44 PM
One decision of the Indian govt. in the matter of how it allows free booters such as Mukesh Ambani rip off state and natural resources - the decision to award a world record well head price of 8.4 USD per MMBTU for the gas extracted from the KG D6 block (now brought down to 5.61 USD per MMBTU but with a caveat that "technologically challenging fields MAY be awarded a higher price" - alone is enough to illustrate why India will never be able to compete in any meaningful manner with China!
The latest Corrption Perception Index rankings (published by Transparency International) place China at 61st rank among all countries while India, despite being an alleged vibrant democracy and not autocratically governed as China is widely ridiculed to be, is placed a far more miserable 98th !!
Re: toughness
by Suresh Pachori on Feb 02, 2017 06:28 PM
get tough with higly undiscplined people". Absolutely, and this is never going to happen in our democracy. So suites China well.
Re: toughness
by Pat Thakur on Nov 12, 2014 05:02 PM
Bingo!!! First be like China, then talk about overtaking it. Our fiscal is in shambles, policy-making is non-existent, development is zero & patriotism? Well, no comments.
Re: Re: toughness
by piri on Nov 12, 2014 11:36 PM
You missed the most important among differences between Indians and the Chinese - tolerance to corruption !
While the Chinese have very little tolerance to corruption (despite being an autocracy, China is ranked 61st on the Corruption Perception Index of Transparency International) while most common Indians - the eternal morons - think that the existence of big time corruption is a sign that there is development !
Re: need alien's support to deal with dragons
by pratap bhanu on Nov 12, 2014 11:46 AM
1. China is selling everything and making money 2. Extracting money from Big politicians and Corporates/Builders 3. Their railways are marginal loss where demand is less and supply is more in contrast to india where demand is more and supply is less and still IR is in huge loss 4. Indian builders getting easy loans even when they hardly go in losses 5. Black money in foreign banks can bring big money 6. All these money can be invested in building roads/rails/ropeways in challenging terrains
India needs to build roads and railways in the border areas and do it urgently.
Its a very good point to open up the areas to all Indians and bring in tourists. That way the area will receive attention and money. Only govt subsidies will not make life better for the locals, they need jobs and infrastructure. And that can only be sustained if those areas are connected with the rest of the country to allow free movement of people and goods.
Re: indians only talk and dont deliver
by Maximum on Nov 11, 2014 03:39 PM
the Colonisation posted their dummies where ever they left feeling like first post colonial govt in place in India things definately would be different
Re: BOUNDARY
by piri on Nov 11, 2014 02:30 PM
That is a foolish thought, is it not ?
The Chinese can similarly think that India should hand over the entire state of Arunachal Pradesh to them due to their historical links with the place, cant they ?
Re: Re: BOUNDARY
by milind b on Nov 11, 2014 02:41 PM
But Tibet was never a part of China , it was forcebly annexed by China. Kailash Mansarovar is historically the most holiest place for Hindus and India has a right on this place more than anyone else in this world.
