India is comparable to China in every sense.
That's ridiculous. They're two completely different countries, with different histories, ethnic groups, cultures, belief systems, etc. Simply comparing them by population and developing nation status doesn't get you anywhere. You also can't just take the only country you think is similar and take a view simply based on that. Didn't you pay any attention during science lessons at school? If you perform a comparative experiment you have to run it many, many times. Otherwise you might get freak results influenced by other factors.
Both are newly independent countries.Both of them suffer from colonialism
At different times in their histories and to far differing degrees. China was ruled by "non-Chinese" dynasties, but modern "colonialism" was restricted to cities and small areas, apart from when the Japanese invaded. On the other hand India was under direct and almost complete British rule for a long time right up until independence.
So now How can you explain that ?. China must doing something right that India didn't
Easy, economic policy. India remained Socialist until fairly recently, whereas China went capitalism decades ago. China didn't invent a miracle economic policy from CCP political thought. Remember that Maoist economic policies almost ruined China. It was adoption of foreign ideas (and technology). You don't have to be a one-party state to reform economically!
Yet with all the favorable condition such as bountiful country. moderate climate and relatively free from natural disaster, free from interference and aggression from neighboring countries, It take America 200 years to achieve their high living standard.
But America didn't develop all in the late 20th century! It had to invent or wait for the development of key technologies and economic principles. It also had to wait for people to flock to the country to drive population growth. The country was completely undeveloped, with hardly anyone living in most of it and no significant settlements. What they did was a great achievement.
China constantly has to face interference and meddling . Right after her independence she has to face KOREAN War, Indian border war.Vietnam war.
You mean China decided to get involved in those conflicts. And India had its own wars with China and Pakistan.
Yet within the span of 30 years she effectively eliminated poverty
Complete rubbish. Many Chinese are much richer, but a large number are still poor. The CCP finally adjusted its definition of poverty upwards and suddenly three times the previous number are "poor". It's all about how you define poverty. Yes, economic reforms have been great for China, poverty has not been "effectively eliminated" at all. It's easy to say there's no poverty if you set/hold the barrier at a low point.
It has been tried before and failed miserably. The result is misery, poverty, war, warlord ism, colonial aggression, In other word a splinter and weak china , impoverished China
Now who is stupid enough to try a failed model second time around !
China didn't even have a chance to try democracy properly! The country was completely unstable at the time and had just seen the overthrown of imperial rule. You can't shift from a despotic monarchy to a modern democratic system in 5 minutes. Moreover, Yuan Shikai clearly had no interest in democracy and did everything he could to undermine it.
What happened in China after the fall of the Qing was not due to democracy. It was because key players like Yuan abandoned democracy and just tried to impose more authoritarian rule.
the problem of corruption, inequality, environmental degradation are part and parcel of developing country. You can't get a way from it
But some developing countries handle it better than others. There is no reason why democratic reforms would fail in China in making things better,
unless they were introduced in panic because the CCP had fallen or the leadership was facing mounting public anger over various issues.
This is the problem with China. For democracy to work in the future, civil society needs to be given space to develop. People need to be able to air their political ideas and expose corruption without being placed under house arrest at the drop of a hat. The CCP is creating ideal conditions for democracy to fail in the future by repeatedly clamping down on any perceived undermining, let alone direct challenge, of its authority.
