{"id":7347,"date":"2009-01-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/01\/01\/china-and-india-in-the-next-world-order\/"},"modified":"2009-01-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T12:00:00","slug":"china-and-india-in-the-next-world-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/01\/01\/china-and-india-in-the-next-world-order\/","title":{"rendered":"China and India In The Next World Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/02\/opinion\/02das.html?_r=1\">www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">NEW DELHI, January 1, 2008: China and India are in a struggle for a top rung on the ladder of world power, but their approaches to the state and to power could not be more different.<\/p>\n<p>Two days after last month&#8217;s terrorist attack on Mumbai, I met with a Chinese friend who was visiting India on business. He was shocked as much by the media&#8217;s transparent and competitive minute-by-minute reporting of the attack by India&#8217;s dozens of news channels as by the ineffectual response of the government.<\/p>\n<p>My friend switched the subject to the poor condition of India&#8217;s roads, its dilapidated cities and the constant blackouts. Suddenly, he stopped and asked: &#8220;With all this, how did you become the second-fastest growing economy in the world? China&#8217;s leaders fear the day when India&#8217;s government will get its act together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The answer to his question may lie in a common saying among Indians that &#8220;our economy grows at night when the government is asleep.&#8221; Both the Chinese and the Indians are convinced that their prosperity will only increase in the 21st century. In China it will be induced by the state; in India&#8217;s case, it may well happen despite the state.<\/p>\n<p>All this baffled my Chinese friend, and undoubtedly many of his countrymen, whose own success story has been scripted by an efficient state.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.nytimes.com NEW DELHI, January 1, 2008: China and India are in a struggle for a top rung on the ladder,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}