{"id":90282,"date":"2021-02-27T11:13:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T05:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=90282"},"modified":"2021-02-27T11:13:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T05:43:05","slug":"western-ideas-have-to-be-adapted-like-china-and-not-to-be-followed-like-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/western-ideas-have-to-be-adapted-like-china-and-not-to-be-followed-like-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Western ideas have to be adapted like China and not to be followed like India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Synopsis: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The key to China\u2019s immense growth is that it focuses on itself instead of trying to live up to the expectations of the Western countries. India could learn a few lessons from China as it struggles to match up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Introduction\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China and India are the two oldest civilizations but are also the youngest nation-states. Both countries modernized in the late 1940s.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China went ahead and imitated the USSR and its authoritarianism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China although rejected the Soviet Union as an ideal, continued with authoritarianism. India followed the path of democracy and proved western experts wrong. Because western experts predicted that Indian democracy would collapse soon after Independence.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian democracy was successful among the common people of the country. Despite that, studies generally focus on the failures of democracy in India.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The greatest failure of Indian democracy as pointed out by many critics is, not able to match the expectations of western democracies.<\/li>\n<li>However, China has not faced such criticism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>How China managed to develop on its own?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>First, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China kept local needs and aspirations in mind while using western concepts. They moulded western ideas according to their needs. On the other hand, India simply tried to live up to standards set by the west.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>For example,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> China abandoned the Soviet economic model as it realized its limitations. It abandoned the Material Product System (MPS) of the Soviets. This method calculated the value of goods based on state-determined prices. It also not used to include the service sector. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China moved towards the western ideas of Gross Domestic Product and start calculating the value of goods and services on market prices. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This gave a psychological boost to the Chinese, and it helped revive nationalism among the young in China.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since India used GDP calculation from the beginning. When the economy has not grown enough India did not switch to local calculation<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Instead, Indian economists start convincing global and local people.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Second, timeline of Chinese economy growing larger than Indian economy:\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China adopted the GDP as a criterion to evaluate the wealth of the nation in 1993. At that time, Its GDP was $0.444 trillion. It was one and a half times higher than the GDP of India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s GDP crossed $1 trillion and china was touching the $5-trillion figure in 2008. China\u2019s GDP remains almost five times more than India\u2019s.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Last,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> China used and moulded western idea sets to <\/span><b>create a knowledge economy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. They spent a substantial amount of money on research and set up their own peer review systems. But India did not spend on research like China did.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The conclusion<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite India gaining Independence from the British, western norms and ideas are still assimilated into the minds of Indians. This is the reason for India to remain a follower of western ideas.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis: The key to China\u2019s immense growth is that it focuses on itself instead of trying to live up to the expectations of the Western countries. India could learn a few lessons from China as it struggles to match up.\u00a0 Introduction\u00a0 China and India are the two oldest civilizations but are also the youngest nation-states.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/western-ideas-have-to-be-adapted-like-china-and-not-to-be-followed-like-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Western ideas have to be adapted like China and not to be followed like India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[1333],"class_list":["post-90282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-ir_0","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704835706},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}