Comments by "Alan Friesen" (@alanfriesen9837) on "Rise of Asia"
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In many ways India is a normal country and China is a rockstar. What China has accomplished hasn't been done by anyone, but China's accomplishments came at great cost. In the 1940s and 50s China eliminated the land-owning class by exiling them, imprisoning them, and in some cases killing them. This burning of the forest eventually led to a classless society with an extremely fertile environment in which the genius within the population was not held back by social restraints.
The one-child policy shattered the old Confucian conceit of valuing sons over daughters. Families had to appreciate whatever child fate gave them, and because of this daughters became just as worthy of investment as sons.
I'm not going to suggest that there is no corruption in China, but it does periodically get purged. Because of this the Chinese people trust their government and companies trust the regulatory environment. Also, the Chinese government takes a practical approach to taking care of problems without having to submit every change to a debate among the people or their representatives.
China does well when it has good leaders. If China had bad leaders, the system could accentuate the worst aspects of those leaders by providing such an authoritarian platform.
I hope India succeeds in the long run, but the problems listed in the clip, as well as issues in the relationships of its religious communities, are going to have to be dealt with. I'm not sure that I could advise India in good conscience to deal with those problems the way China did. Hopefully they'll find less painful methods, but that might mean that it takes a lot more time.
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