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Monday, September 20, 2010

Russia & America Then, China & India Now

After 7 decades from the time of World War II to current war of hacking, the world has changed alot. Russia and USA took the early train of 'industrial revolution' towards achieving their economic success, Countries like India, China and Brazil were little late but cached the 'information/manufcaturing revolution' flight. Being the fastest growing economies of the world India and China attracted the world and the countires are constantly obesrving both. Same with the world policy. India and China has beacme the central piece of thought in their policies. By noting all these and observing the recent moves by China and India, It reminds of the time when Russia and USA were in cold war and trying to rise against each other. USA and Russia's competition was neck to neck. In later case, China is an undisputed winner for now, as time goes this can be exactly compared with cold war.
Now, the socio economic gravity has been shifted from USA-Russia to India-China. The leaders of India and China, on top of the pyramid trying hard to counter each other. After the astonishing success of ISRO's moon machine and several other satellite machines, China stepped up and announced several moon programs including man based moon launching by 2025. This shows the increasing competition between India and China and its going to increase further in coming years.
India on other hand also trying to modernize its army and increased the defense budget to counter or match with its neighbors. Both countries changed their foreign policies to engage more with the countries against to their counter parts. India is increasing its ties with Taiwan, Japan, Indonesia..etc and China on other hand increasing its ties with Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar etc. The strategy is more similar to the kind of strategy USA and Russia followed over the years.
Competition in all sense is good for improvement, but I am afraid that, China with its strong bureaucracy and funds may win this battle. I wish and hope India directs all its strengths for the purpose of improving the nation there by keeping its morale high.

1 comment:

  1. hai this is very impressive ...and ur thing good about Indian forign policy

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