China is a communist country. People there do not enjoy freedom as we do. If you produce more than one children in China, you are fined. They still have barbaric laws in which they give death sentences to people involved in corruption, punishment is fine, but do these people really deserve death sentence? They curb freedom of speech everywhere. Even the search results and internet content is heavily filtered/moderated!
And yet the government is furiously focused on improving the quality of civilian life and making it a world class country that rivals the west in every way. You make it sound like the Chinese are prisoners who are ritually tortured every day. So, with all our freedom and expertise, do we have a city like Beijing or Shanghai or Shenzhen yet? What went wrong with the whole freedom approach? Everyone started spitting, pissing and shi.tting all over? I have been working with Chinese and S. Korean folks for some 8 years now, and things aren't really as bad as they are reputed to be. And why is the one child restriction viewed so negatively? when population control is their main concern? Did you also know that in China you can have a second child if the first has birth defects or medical problems, without a fine being levied? Very weak arguments in my opinion. In fact the one child policy is something which India needs just as badly as well. All of you speak of an overcrowded country with resource problems, and then frown at China's one child policy. Ironic.
"Most" of the people in China do not have the power to innovate or think independently because of years of communist rule which has changed their mindset. They all need to be told what needs to be done. School children are made to take oath supporting communism.
Does that explain their "home built" Maglev system, constructed without the help of a single foreign entity? What about their weapons and ICBMS? The DF-4's and gang - purely indigenous too. Even their JL fighters!
What about the TSMC wafers being done in Taiwan? Taiwan? Out of all places? I'm surprised it couldn't be done in Haryana! Why? Because our government cannot guarantee continuous power! Hooray!
I'm also shocked that Apple, and many other fortune 500 companies have their "low quality" manufacturing done in China, and not some place in India. What an anomaly!
What about us? Our weapons and Russia, rings a bell? Our jets? All imported technology. And why is our government busy gathering quotes from the US and Japan for the prospect Maglev system from Delhi to Mumbai? What happened? Our stunning innovators and democracy bred population is enjoying the IPL? C'mon, what is it (technologically and intellectually speaking) that prevents us from doing an indigenous Maglev, Jets, Weapons et al? Why do we always need foreign involvement at some level?
If you think there are really intelligent people in China, I disagree. IMO It is a giant factory which keep churning out cheap goods which is the main reason of their progress.
Really? They've beaten us hollow at the Maths Olympiads: International Mathematical Olympiad I know what you are going to say: "We Indians couldn
't care a hoot about IMO, it doesn't prove anything". I know, right.
They've torn the charts apart at TopCoder (see for yourself): You'll probably say: "We Indians couldn't care about that, doesn't prove anything". So true.
They're regularly the best answerers at Math Overflow, to some of the most insane problems I've encountered (Ring Theory, Abstract Algebra and the likes). Chances are 5 of the hottest questions at Math Overflow have been answered by a Chinese right now, as I type this.
The world's rubiks cube champion and some of the fastest solvers (normal and blindfolded) have been from China until recently. (Now Australian).
I could go on, but hopefully I've proved you wrong. Chinese not intelligent? What exactly do you form these opinions out of? Deluded nationalism?
Just for the sake of controlling corruption and have polished railway stations we cannot lose our freedom. There are different ways to bring the change initiated by a change in ourselves.
The issue is not with freedom. Don't be deluded into thinking that our freedom has done any good of considerable commendation. I don't support communism alright, but at the same time, this freedom thing people blabber about: It's allowed this country to turn into a toxic dump from shi.t from various regional ethnicities.
And technological advancement and innovation does not always come at the expense of freedom, although the government sometimes needs to adopt an iron hand approach and increase prices to improve civilian life.
I have worked hard to raise my standard of living to the top tier population of this country, and I have the right to demand the same quality of life that I lived in South Korea, Finland and elsewhere. But my government caters to the majority, which is the poor, and that's an indirect way of telling me that I'm not entitled to a better quality of life, even though I'm financially entitled to it.
So it's a take it of leave it situation. I wonder how nationalistically wrong it would be if I settled elsewhere permanently because I'm not on my own government's priority list?
