Posted on 01/14/2005 10:28:02 AM PST by Destro
Unless they start a war and annihilate each other. Make the UN happy, seeings how we got an ovepopulation problem & all.
This guy is the worst American correspondent for a foreign newspaper I have ever come across. An average of 19 out of 20 of his articles I ask myself if this guy actually lives in the U.S. or just mails it in from Bombay.
We have a fraction of the people they both do, and yet our GNP is several times more than theres.
Again, the answer to all this is democracy. Bring freedom to these countries and then it's a FREE world of people rather than a group of countries.
Free people do not attack their neighbors.
nikos
--as we spend ourselves into fiscal oblivion, on Congressional pork---
Most likely wishful thinking.
India is the world's largest democracy.
Time to polish up on my Chinese language skills.
Good, by then they'll all speak English and we can do their tech support.
Given the CIA's demonstrated accuracy at predicting the future, this report should be causing sphincters to slam shut in Beijing and New Delhi. "Dudes, we are SO doomed."
Great talking point until you go to J&K or Nagaland or Assam or Bihar or Manipur.
How many legally elected state governments has the Centre dissolved? How about "the Emergency"?
Sorry, India is a rising state, no doubt, and will be a larger actor on the global stage, but they have a long way to go and their democracy has a lot of problems.
Which countries are you writing about? while I agree with the need to democratize China, India is the largest democracy in the world (in fact, has been the largest democracy sice its independence in 1947).
I thought the same thing.
Sounds like the nonsense Goldman Sachs put out last year about India being a superpower in 2050. I tell people to look at any 50 year span and tell me who foresaw in year 1 anything remotely close to year 50.
Nonsense.
India is in a much better position than China is. China is an economic house of cards, corrupt to the max. They are exhibiting all the classic symptons of a "boom/bust" cycle, and when it busts, it will not be pretty.
Of course the article fails to report that such forecasts historically are noriously unreliable. As recently as 1989 there were projections that the Japan would overtake the US economically by 2005...Oops.
There are a long list of similar examples. Makes the arguments for better investment incentives and breaking the back of the teachers unions.
<< This guy is the worst American correspondent for a foreign newspaper I have ever come across. An average of 19 out of 20 of his articles I ask myself if this guy actually lives in the U.S. or just mails it in from Bombay. >>
Two of the most systemically corrupt squalidly socialist states in the history of our species each of them psychopathologically hesperophobic, neither of them much better than medieval serfdoms; 40% of the GNP of one of them derived from the theft and counterfeiting of American intellectual property and industrial goods, while 50% of its banks' "loans" are non-performing effective thefts and more looted money flows out than investment in -- and they are going to give their major market place a run for its money?
Sure they are.
Right after pigs fly, chinese innovate -- and communists and Indians become trustworthy.
Look at Transparency International's ratings on India and then this Index of Economic Freedom http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110006108
Also, this from Freedom House http://www.freedomhouse.org/research/survey2005.htm
LOL. And true. This report is Hogwash, IMO.
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