This permanent. Once Russian airspace closed ( only Turkish airline will expand) and Europeans have to sign deals with Qatar and Azerbaijan for Gas. It's all Turkey.
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Do you realize that the Indians has been telling themselves this same general message since the 1950's?
That is why the Indians got some sort of weird obsession with China.
When both countries started fresh back then with new political leadership, they were roughly equals.
By the 1980's, China had pulled ahead. This really rankled the Indians because the Chinese went through the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and even fought a war against the Americans, and even after all of that, they were ahead in development.
Now, it is kind of unthinkable. The gap is too wide now.
This is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, there is no "endgame" where China can win forever and eternally. Geopolitical games never end, and rivals will never stop emerging. You can cherry pick however many comparisons you want at whatever point in time you want, which is in fact what all China-haters do when they downplay anything China does, but the fact of the matter is that India does have the prerequiste population and demographics to challenge China in 50, 100, 200 years. Fostering a willing ignorance and sense of superiority now toward any country will coalesce into a psychological inability of future generations decades in the future to even comprehend the idea that "shithole" countries would have anything worth learning from.
That is until the subcontinent gets conquered again for the 717626th time by outside folks.
Not necessarily, India could always collapse due to climate change and religious extremism. Then it could simply degenerate into feudal conditions. This would be a worst case scenario but it is possible.
India has the population, but so did China in 1920. As Chiang Kai Shek said, China has many people but they're loosely fit together like myriad grains of sand. This fits well for India.
Until India has a political and ideological awakening beyond the old confines of religion and caste, it will constrain itself. That is what happened for China.
50, 100, 200 years...
Do you even know that we will be in the start-middle of the 4th industrial revolution in at most a decade???
And you are here talking about India utilising its population and demographics to challenge China in 50, 100, 200 years..
My question is, do you have any idea how quickly technology is advancing? And also what direction is technology advancing to? It definetely isn't on employing billions of people working in manufacturing or/and in low value services
This is a public forum where anyone can post their thoughts, not policy makers within the Chinese government so it's irrelevant where we think India is going to be in the future. Chinese haters are infinite within the English speaking world where they denigrate all of China's advancements while the gap gets smaller every year between the US and China. Why do you care if people poke fun of an overly arrogant India that screams at the top of their lungs that they're within 10 years of being a superpower every year?
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I'm curious, what exactly do you think is your demographic advantage against China? China has more arable lands than India and thus can always support a larger population.