potential superpower

[chaos2525]

Newsweek and the International Herald Tribune join several academics in discussing India's potential of becoming a superpower.[6][43]
Founder and President of the Economic Strategy Institute and former counselor to the Secretary of Commerce in the Reagan Administration Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr. has predicted that "It is going to be India's century. India is going to be the biggest economy in the world. It is going to be the biggest superpower of the 21st century."[44] Daniel Lak describes India as the underdog, facing more challenges than advantages, yet it is approaching superpower status. He also mentions that despite the hardships of large amount of poverty, and social inequality, India is overcoming all of this.[45]
Fareed Zakaria also believes that India has a fine chance at becoming a superpower, pointing out that India's young population coupled with the second largest English-speaking population in the world could give India an advantage over China, and noting that while other industrial countries will face a youth gap, India will have a large, young workforce. Zakaria says another strength that India has is that, despite being one of the poorest countries in the world, its democratic government has lasted for 60 years, stating that a democracy can provide for long-term stability.[46]
India also has been gaining influence in Asia with trade agreements, direct investment, military exercises, and aids funds. It is good allies with countries such as Iran and Japan, and has emerging ties with countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and India even has an airforce base in Tajikistan. [47]
Parag Khanna believes that India is not, and will not become a superpower for the foreseeable future, lagging decades behind China in both development and strategic appetite.[48] Instead, he believes India will be a key swing state along with Russia.[49] He says that India is "big but not important," has a highly successful professional class, while millions of its citizens still live in poverty. It is "almost completely third world".[50] He also writes that it matters that China borders a dozen more countries than India does, is not hemmed in by a vast ocean and the world's tallest mountains, has a loyal diaspora twice the size of India's and enjoys a head start in Asian and African marketplaces.[51]
Robyn Meredith claims that both India and China will be superpowers. However, she points out that China is decades ahead of India, and that the average Chinese person is better off than the average Indian person. [52] Amy Chua also adds to this, stating that while India's potential for superpower is great, it still faces many problems such as "pervasive rural poverty, disease-filled urban slums, entrenched corruption, and egregious maternal mortality rates just to name a few". Also like China, India lacks the "pull" for immigrants, and Indians still continue to emigrate in large numbers. However, she notes that India has made tremondous strides to fix this, stating that some of India's achievements, such as working to dismantle the centuries old caste system and maintaining the world's largest diverse democracy is historically unprecedented. [53]

i got this from wikipedia just to know your opinion

[John Tuttle]

China will become a superpower long before India. However, China's government will have to seriously be reformed if it wants long-term prosperity. India's government is quite stable and effective, as you mentioned, but having been to India, I can say it is far behind China. While the streets of New Delhi may be full of Western and Japanese cars, along the Tatas and traditional Ambassadors, and the people may be walking around with brand new Samsung phones, large portions of the nation are still very much third-world.

Ultimately, if the future will hold new superpowers, China and the EU are more likely candidates.

[chaos2525]

john tuttle Wrote:China will become a superpower long before India. However, China's government will have to seriously be reformed if it wants long-term prosperity. India's government is quite stable and effective, as you mentioned, but having been to India, I can say it is far behind China. While the streets of New Delhi may be full of Western and Japanese cars, along the Tatas and traditional Ambassadors, and the people may be walking around with brand new Samsung phones, large portions of the nation are still very much third-world.

Ultimately, if the future will hold new superpowers, China and the EU are more likely candidates.

well the government is corrupt but i think we have a young workforce and educated one so ,i think we can beat china at their own game just action should be done fast the chinese are slower but the have more resources even the eu is becoming big and i think they have to be stopped and i hope u liked your stay in india

[Jesusaurisrex]

Quote:well the government is corrupt

and water is wet!
the dictionary definition of government should be "corruption"... I should make a dictionary.

[John Tuttle]

chaos2525 Wrote:well the government is corrupt but i think we have a young workforce and educated one so ,i think we can beat china at their own game just action should be done fast the chinese are slower but the have more resources even the eu is becoming big and i think they have to be stopped and i hope u liked your stay in india

That is true, and I think India will definitely become more and more influential and prosporous, it will just take a while. Also, I suppose I rather live in a democracy were I actually have rights than in China. And, yes, I did enjoy India .

[Rebelnerd]

The problem is that when Cold War II starts, democracy won't last long in any country. It will be just like last time, with two (or three) superpowers in deadlock for control of the world, and the governments of each one will use the fear to clamp down on their own population as this goes on. Gulags and censorship in Russia, Red Scares and McCarthyism in America. Anyone who wants power can accuse their political enemies of being sympathetic to "the other side" and get away with anything.