Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Fifty-eight years later, that is precisely the point that Xi Jinping has been trying to make to Narendra Modi. In the 1950s, objective circumstances and material reality offered adequate reasons for Nehru to imagine that India was China’s equal and he, Mao’s. However, the material basis and the international environment for the bilateral relationship had inexorably changed after the 2008 trans-Atlantic financial crisis. Moreover, in terms of CNP, which incorporates scientific and technological power and human capital formation, China out-ranks India many times over.

Source: Indian Express October 19, 2020 19:32 UTC