"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,

"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)