"Simplification is that China took a hard nationalist route and sought to protect its sovereignty. See GFW. India remained very open." I don't think this has n

"Simplification is that China took a hard nationalist route and sought to protect its sovereignty. See GFW. India remained very open." I don't think this has nothing to do with anything really. And frankly, India has been taking a harder nationalist/populist line in the last 20 years. India and China are completely different places. China is authoritarian, and ordered, there is reasonably effective central policy. India is from a civic perspective a mess of inanity and corruption. The relative 'openness' as measured in flow of goods, capital, information etc. isn't anything really. If India could magically impose the same constraints as China it would probably hurt them. In fact, the argument could be made that those constraints actually hurt China as well.