Indian cope about China is endlessly entertaining, but it gets old after a while. I feel like I lose IQ points just reading their drivel. They aren't even peer of China, it's like dunking on an autistic, even if you win, you kinda lose.
Okay, honest, this is a true story.
I too once looked closely at the Indians.
It was way back, before the internet existed, other than being a US military project.
So I had to look and read all these books in the library.
These books, about Indian development, mostly written in the 1960's, 1970's, and 1980's, the books in the latter decades, the lamenting and anguish that China had already exceeded them was palatable.
This is was straight out of those old books, what is referred to as cope nowadays.
Needless to say, since those days, I never really followed anything out of India that closely.
Nothing has ever changed in India, since ...
It is so long ago, no one even knows.
Any advancements, all foreign.
Same old story. Some old coping mechanisms. Some old India.
The only new thing I expect for India is that it breaks apart with their disgruntled minorities.
Lose a major war, and India could be no more.