Shock Therapy
This guy just got back to China after a visit to Delhi. I think he got the shock of his life.
BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | India struggles to catch China
Every time you turn on the television or pick up a magazine, it is no longer the rise of China, it is now the rise of China and India.
The desire to make comparisons is understandable. Both have more than a billion people. Both are growing at 10% a year.
There are, I suspect, many who are hoping that India, with its freedom and democracy, will win this new race to become the next economic super power. I am not so sure.
I'm on the same wavelength as you, Rupert Wingfield-Hayes. The people who talk this up need to get out there and see, smell and experience it for themselves. Only then can we really progress.
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Update: see also these posts at Peking Duck and Talk Talk China. I do think that in order to slag India off you need to have actually been there too. Some of the comments on TTC are extremely unbalanced.
