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Well yeah sure, except China is the student that's cheating by faking their grade results. But seriously, how can you call a country's rulers that were so stupid as to implement the one child policy, inclusive of forced abortions, ""winning"" ???



I was actually arguing for India by the point I made - as in, India when compared to China comes out to be a super under-developed country that people consider India to be a basket case; which it is not.


It was an economic basket case, however. That’s why so many Indians left during the socialistic policies of Indira Gandhi. It was due to socialism that India regressed and fell behind China. Had India adopted state capitalism earlier, as it has now, it would have grown at a much faster rate.


> It was an economic basket case, however.

true

> That’s why so many Indians left during the socialistic policies of Indira Gandhi.

don't know, i think more people leave India now than ever, but that is not necessarily a bad thing (in net).

> It was due to socialism that India regressed and fell behind China.

Questionable, even at the height of cultural revolution in China, India was growing slower than China. Perhaps India had more societal issues that it needs to solve, perhaps China has inherent advantages, in either case, this sort of question is for the historians to discuss.

> Had India adopted state capitalism earlier, as it has now, it would have grown at a much faster rate.

true




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