Harsh Gupta Madhusudan@harshmadhusudan
The Chinese, who cannot even talk to their own folks on this platform, are lecturing Indians about why Vietnam etc got China+1 investments as Indians are too argumentative and defensive, not willing to learn etc. It is all typical gaslighting nonsense.
The Chinese, despite their hostility towards the Vietnamese, are happy to invest there because a relatively small Vietnam can never become a true economic rival the way India can and will. It is as simple as that. Beijing has actively put in poison pills. DC is also openly saying it cannot let India become another China.
The Indian elite is actually more invested in India than the Chinese elite in China. Entrepreneurs, army officers and administrators do not overnight vanish in India the way they do in China. This is not a Stalinist-Maoist state.
Make no mistake, Beijing is very scared about India's latent and developing potential. And America is also a bit more than nervous as its own officials have confessed on Indian soil itself.
India has made significant improvements in its manufacturing, defense and deep tech ecosystems starting from a very low base even as late as a decade ago. Delhi has simultaneously accepted more trade and more industrial policy.
Much more needs to be done of course, and is being done. Manufacturing will be one of India's key strengths over and above its unique services one. Do not let the frustrations of others bamboozle you into doubting your own country.
India is a generation behind China and two behind America. It will cover the gap in decades, not generations. Yes, we should rise even faster but we are rising starting with universal adult franchise in a continental-sized civilisation and a millennium of heroic resistance to colonialism behind us.
Please learn to differentiate between well-wishers and those pretending to be so.
