> ...and India can't compensate for all of this India has enormous challenges of its own, one of them being that their export industry is weak outside pharmace

> ...and India can't compensate for all of this India has enormous challenges of its own, one of them being that their export industry is weak outside pharmaceutical products. They also are not in the best of terms with China, especially on border disputes, and their GDP per capita is the lowest by far among BRICS. I'm honestly surprised when anyone suggests that India may be put in the same group as China. Other than population and WMD, the gap is unlikely to be closed in the next three decades.