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Expected, China has gone through its industrial revolution and developed rapidly, India is where China was about 2 decades back and needs 15-20 years of 9-10% sustained growth with China plodding along at 4-5% just to catch up to where China is today.
Nothing to really celebrate in this news.
In 2040/5 India, China and the US are projected to be the big 3 economies in the world but no one is really sure in which order they will be, this is the real question, will the Indian tortoise where decisions take a absurd amount of time to be made catch up to the Chinese hare where liberty has been sacrificed for development? How will the Chinese people react with the slowing down of China? How will the more Westernised and liberal Chinese middle class behave, will they start demanding more freedoms? Will such a change in governance come about peacefully? Was the Hong Kong protest just the tip of the iceberg?
Nothing to really celebrate in this news.
In 2040/5 India, China and the US are projected to be the big 3 economies in the world but no one is really sure in which order they will be, this is the real question, will the Indian tortoise where decisions take a absurd amount of time to be made catch up to the Chinese hare where liberty has been sacrificed for development? How will the Chinese people react with the slowing down of China? How will the more Westernised and liberal Chinese middle class behave, will they start demanding more freedoms? Will such a change in governance come about peacefully? Was the Hong Kong protest just the tip of the iceberg?