See,what I said is completely true.Indians will pay peanuts for cheap goods and expect world class quality and then blame the Chinese for their own fault.If a Chinese constructed HSR meets an accident at any of the zillion unguarded crossing of indian railways,indians will put all the blame on china and not on its own incompetence.
Read it.
No money left to buy Rafale fighters: Antony - Rediff.com News
And notice the difference between government budget (which includes the defence budget) and foreign exchange reserves.
India is not a land of cuckoo economics. Acquisitions are initiated by the Ministry of Defence, via the subsidiaries. Every year allocations are made to the Ministries. DOES NOT MEAN there is no money. Just that the budget allocated to the Ministry for the year was less. Also India does not invest close to 5% of its GDP into defence, so such occurences are natural. We don't aspire to topple the US anytime soon in any case.Good for you. Hongkong's reserves are really nice, I agree. They were better off independent or under the British flag IMO is another matter altogether. Their Golden period lay there. But anyway, who am I to speculate on that?
Right. That's how we roll.
Wda....its not money that has been holding back the deal it is french reluctance to agree to few terms that has cause the delay now....
Stop posting lies
You were lying that India has no foreign reserve, and I corrected it for the record. Therein lies the difference. Nothing else. @DRAY
Good for you. Hongkong's reserves are really nice, I agree. They were better off independent or under the British flag IMO is another matter altogether. Their Golden period lay there. But anyway, who am I to speculate on that?
Right. That's how we roll.
Well,I agree that India should go to Japan or france for HSR because it will just blame China for the inevitable accidents caused due to incompetence of Indian workforce and inevitably use the strawman argument of "cheap chinese maal" because they are too poor to pay for high quality chinese stuff.It is wrong to expect high quality from chinese goods, hence it is stupidity to pay high price for chinese goods, if we pay high price; we will go to other countries. In this particular case we should pay higher price and opt for Japanese HSR.
Well,I agree that India should go to Japan or france for HSR because it will just blame China for the inevitable accidents caused to to incompetence of Indian workforce and use the strawman argument of "cheap chinese maal" because they are too poor to pay for high quality chinese stuff.
Japan must be the favoured sourced,japan can use the aid it gives to poor countries like India to cover HSR costs because Indians would not be able to pay the even more expensive japanese HSR.In any case of accidents,which will most likely happen due to Indian incompetence,Indians won't be able to blame Japanese as they did them a favour by giving aid and Japanese won't have to call indians "ungrateful clods" particularly here on pdf
Arunachal pradesh bought locomotives?I mean Indian railways bought Chinese locomotives?When did that happen?Hmmm.....that's why you guys couldn't blame chinese for their shoddy locos that turned into garbage in two years!!
I already wished India best of luck getting the Japanese HSR, let Japan milk them dry
Exactly why I said China should stay away from Indian HSR dreams.It will put the blame of inevitable accidents on China.China has to seriously stay away from Indian railway please
This area is just another item in India's long list of "the world's worsts":
Indian Railways incur high losses due to accidents and no insurance cover - Economic Times
Unmanned level crossing accidents result in 59% deaths as per Railways' High Level Committee Report
India Rail Track Deaths Amount To 15,000 Each Year
Image of Train Accidents in India – My India
Wonderful Mumbai » Accidents And Deaths On Mumbai’s Local Suburban Trains
15,000 people die every year in 'massacre' on India's train tracks - Telegraph
Main Cause of Railway Accidents : Drop in Maintenance Levels
India has the dubious distinction of the highest accidents both on toads and railway- tracks.
Short Essay on Railway Accidents Causes and Remedies (India)
