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China is a country with more than a billion hard-working people. This should not be a surprise!

danso 8y ago
India’s population rivals China’s and yet AFAIK is not considered to be the kind of superpower that China and the U.S. are.
- perseusprime11 8y ago
  Are they as hard working as Chinese?
  - danso 8y ago
    The premise of the article is not that 1+ billion people all decided to work really hard.
- bobosha 8y ago
  India is at least a decade, perhaps two decades, behind China in its development cycle.
  - Markoff 8y ago
    you are very optimistic about status of India with 20 years behind China
- beerlord 8y ago
  How does the average IQ compare in India vs China? China has been running a eugenics program for 30 years, starting with the One Child Policy to discourage rural peasants from having children, to encouraging urbanisation and university education to allow assortative mating for the highly intelligent. Now, they have relaxed the One Child Policy so those who can pay can have more children, further allowing the intellectual elite to expand. All of these things are thoroughly politically incorrect, but they seem to be working...
- ForHackernews 8y ago
  I think long-term, I would still bet on India over China. Not only does China have an impending demographic crunch, India is a democracy with an enormous English-speaking population and friendlier ties to the West. Look at the Indian space program for some really inspiring examples of doing fantastic things on a (relative) shoestring budget. Assuming they aren't completely done in by climate change, I wouldn't be surprised if India became the dominant power in the second half of the 21st century.
  - plinkplonk 8y ago
    "I wouldn't be surprised if India became the dominant power in the second half of the 21st century" I would (Fwiw, I am in Indian, lived for years in the USA, now live in India). Aside from climate change, India has tremendous problems with respect to literacy, religious intolerance, lack of engineering/manufacturing skills (outside the space program) , emigration of its brightest young people etc etc. Any nation can progress only when it has competent leadership for a few decades. In India, across political parties, we have utterly terrible leaders with little education and less common sense. If anything I (personally) predict India will decline as the century progresses. (imo ime, ymmv, etc, saying this before the super patriots of India(n origin) accuse me of being some kind of traitor to our glorious destiny)
    - oblio 8y ago
      > we have utterly terrible leaders with little education and less common sense I don't want to rain on your parade (I'm not Indian), but from outside, despite their impressive on paper CVs, your past leaders were even worse, based on their results.
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- tanilama 8y ago
  They arent as educated and provided with great infrastructure like China.

India’s population rivals China’s and yet AFAIK is not considered to be the kind of superpower that China and the U.S. are.

perseusprime11 8y ago
Are they as hard working as Chinese?
- danso 8y ago
  The premise of the article is not that 1+ billion people all decided to work really hard.
bobosha 8y ago
India is at least a decade, perhaps two decades, behind China in its development cycle.
- Markoff 8y ago
  you are very optimistic about status of India with 20 years behind China
beerlord 8y ago
How does the average IQ compare in India vs China? China has been running a eugenics program for 30 years, starting with the One Child Policy to discourage rural peasants from having children, to encouraging urbanisation and university education to allow assortative mating for the highly intelligent. Now, they have relaxed the One Child Policy so those who can pay can have more children, further allowing the intellectual elite to expand. All of these things are thoroughly politically incorrect, but they seem to be working...
ForHackernews 8y ago
I think long-term, I would still bet on India over China. Not only does China have an impending demographic crunch, India is a democracy with an enormous English-speaking population and friendlier ties to the West. Look at the Indian space program for some really inspiring examples of doing fantastic things on a (relative) shoestring budget. Assuming they aren't completely done in by climate change, I wouldn't be surprised if India became the dominant power in the second half of the 21st century.
- plinkplonk 8y ago
  "I wouldn't be surprised if India became the dominant power in the second half of the 21st century" I would (Fwiw, I am in Indian, lived for years in the USA, now live in India). Aside from climate change, India has tremendous problems with respect to literacy, religious intolerance, lack of engineering/manufacturing skills (outside the space program) , emigration of its brightest young people etc etc. Any nation can progress only when it has competent leadership for a few decades. In India, across political parties, we have utterly terrible leaders with little education and less common sense. If anything I (personally) predict India will decline as the century progresses. (imo ime, ymmv, etc, saying this before the super patriots of India(n origin) accuse me of being some kind of traitor to our glorious destiny)
  - oblio 8y ago
    > we have utterly terrible leaders with little education and less common sense I don't want to rain on your parade (I'm not Indian), but from outside, despite their impressive on paper CVs, your past leaders were even worse, based on their results.
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tanilama 8y ago
They arent as educated and provided with great infrastructure like China.