INDIA OR CHINA: RAGHAV BAHL AND YASHENG HUANG SPEAK THEIR MIND
Miracle nations. Economic powerhouses. But can they become collaborators? Two views...
Forbes India, August 20, 2010
Raghav Bahl is the founder of Network18, a media conglomerate that owns CNBC-TV18, CNBC Awaaz, CNN-IBN, In.com, Moneycontrol and Forbes India. He is one of the pioneers of television journalism in India. Bahl’s book Superpower?: The Amazing Race Between China’s Hare and India’s Tortoise has been recently published by Penguin Allen Lane.
Miracle nations. Economic powerhouses. But can they become collaborators? Two views...
Forbes India, August 20, 2010
Raghav Bahl is the founder of Network18, a media conglomerate that owns CNBC-TV18, CNBC Awaaz, CNN-IBN, In.com, Moneycontrol and Forbes India. He is one of the pioneers of television journalism in India. Bahl’s book Superpower?: The Amazing Race Between China’s Hare and India’s Tortoise has been recently published by Penguin Allen Lane.
China and India lived together as peaceful, populous and prosperous neighbours until the 18th Century. Then colonial powers took control and enervated their prosperity. In 1914, the British drew the McMahon Line and ruptured their peace. China believes nearly 150,000 sq km of its territory was fraudulently transferred to India. Both countries went to war in 1962; a militarily under-prepared India was thrashed, opening up deep psychological scars which have not been repaired to this day. Then both got absorbed in fixing their damaged economies; China dazzled the world with its $5 trillion prowess, and India attracted attention with its $1.25 trillion play. Today, the world’s fastest and second fastest growing economies are locked in an uneasy clasp.
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