Once a Close Economic Rival of China, India Falls Behind

[Ulhas Joglekar]

Carrol Cox wrote:
> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > By KEITH BRADSHER
> > 
> > [clip]  he flies home and thinks about how India, despite
> > democracy, has fallen behind China, a one-party state struggling with
> > the aftermath of Communist economic policies.
> 
> Perhaps those "Communist economic policies" (such as working to give
> peasants a sense of the potential of technology) have something to do
> with the present "success."

Is China an independent nation?

Ulhas