{"id":43398,"date":"2011-08-31T08:56:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T16:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brownpundits.com\/?p=4800"},"modified":"2011-08-31T08:56:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T16:56:48","slug":"india-vs-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/31\/india-vs-china\/","title":{"rendered":"India vs. China"},"content":{"rendered":"

India Measures Itself Against a China That Doesn\u2019t Notice<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cIndians are obsessed with China, but the Chinese are paying too little attention to India,\u201d said Minxin Pei, an economist who was born in China and who writes a monthly column for The Indian Express, a national daily newspaper. (No Indian economists are known to have a regular column in mainland Chinese publications.)<\/p>\n

Most Chinese are unconcerned with how India is growing and changing, because they prefer to compare their country with the United States and Europe, said Mr. Pei, a professor at Claremont McKenna College near Los Angeles. He says he has tried to organize conferences about India in China but has struggled to find enough Chinese India experts.<\/p>\n

Liu Yi, a clothing store owner in Beijing, echoed the sentiments of a dozen Chinese people interviewed in Beijing and Shanghai, in dismissing the idea that the two countries could be compared. Yes, he said India was a \u201cworld leader\u201d in information technology but it also had many \u201cbackward, undeveloped places.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cChina\u2019s economy is special,\u201d Mr. Liu said. \u201cIf China\u2019s development has a model, you could say it\u2019s the U.S. or England.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The sentiments are real. But the Indian assumption that the difference is the governance style of China is false. It’s the aggregate difference in human capital<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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