China was never colonised. Why compare it's performance with newly independent countries?

[haidian]

China was unified by mao

No matter how some people hate him, we give Mao the credit for that. Bringing the end of the one hundred years of humiliation of the Chinese nation.

 

[KAMDEV]

No matter how some people hate him, we give Mao the credit for that. Bringing the end of the one hundred years of humiliation of the Chinese nation.

Yes he taught china to stand up on its own .

 

[Kamikaze Pilot]

china was also utterly devastated and the entire country was in ruins after WWII, where India at the time had the best railway system in Asia and suffered practically no damage from WWII.

Err ...... no. India got independent peacefully in one piece with a working government.
China was united by war. China was in a civil war when Japan invaded. After japan was defeated, the civil war resumed.
China was left with nothing when KMT took all the wealth to Taiwan after losing.
Then the Korean war started.
No. India was in a much better shape.

China went through over a century of continous wars fighting both foreign invaders and ourselves till 1949, when CCP took power China was utterly a war torn wasteland with everything destroyed. India managed to stay out of devastating world wars and enjoyed long period of peace and development while most of world was burning.

All that misery, all that problems were China's own doings not damage inflicted by external powers. Regarding invasions, why couldn’t it be sorted out by Diplomacy or at least keep it out of Chinese territory?

India too has border disputes and India too is hated by countries like Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. And India too faced the menace of Maoist insurgency - first in 1960s and later in 2000s and also secessionism in Punjab and North-East. But India never let all this disrupt internal peace and stability.

 

[haidian]

All that misery, all that problems were China's own doings not damage inflicted by external powers. Regarding invasions, why couldn’t it be sorted out by Diplomacy or at least keep it out of Chinese territory?

Do you have any basic knowledge of the world history?

 

[Kamikaze Pilot]

Do you have any basic knowledge of the world history?

And all that wars mean experience and war-readiness.

 

[haidian]

And all that wars mean experience and war-readiness.

Over a century of that war experience, do you want to try it?

 

[faithfulguy]

It is amazing for a self-claimed "true" Chinese to accept a race with distinctive non-Chinese language as the legitimate successor to rule China.

China is a multi ethnic state. Manchu, Tibetans, Uighurs, Zhang, Miao and Han are all equally Chinese. No ethnic group is above or ahead of one another.

 

[Nan Yang]

Civil war means a deficiency of China's own people. Regarding WWII, Britain too fought it but by covert diplomacy they ensured it wasn't fought on it's territory. Regarding Korean war, who told Chinese to get involved?

You are really funny.

So you could also say that India breaking up into 3 countries is India own doing. Why blame UK?

Regarding the Korean war. Who told US to get involved?

 

[Tauren Paladin]

Yes, China got a head start because they weren't colonized, but the Japanese invasion set the country back with most of its infrastructure destroyed and economy in shatters.

 

[faithfulguy]

But on the other hand they orchestrated integration on dozen fronts. No British. No India. Don't forget that. When British arrived there was no 'India'.

The British created India. Integrated India with the rail roads and the English language. Since they left, India had disintegrated into religious, caste and ethnic violence. People of India today, especially the women, are less safe compare to British India. Indians should be grateful to its mother country England for created India. Indians should humbly seek British for guideline on how to run India. As its the Brits that created India. Indians are just beneficiaries of their creation of Indian state.

 

[master_13]

All that misery, all that problems were China's own doings not damage inflicted by external powers. Regarding invasions, why couldn’t it be sorted out by Diplomacy or at least keep it out of Chinese territory?

India too has border disputes and India too is hated by countries like Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. And India too faced the menace of Maoist insurgency - first in 1960s and later in 2000s and also secessionism in Punjab and North-East. But India never let all this disrupt internal peace and stability.

whether it's china's own doing or not is up to debate, without Japanese invasion, civil war could been ended long time ago as well, who would have known. But I thought OP's hypothesis was that China had advantage and head start over India, the answer is clearly no. In fact, China was disadvantageous comparing to India, and up until the 70s, Indian GDP/Ca-pita and economy were slightly higher than China. So saying China had head start is clearly a false statement.