Being part of the Chinese 50-cent army, I cannot expect you to have the decency to back down when you are presented with facts and figures, your behaviour is on expected lines.
Keep harping on the words used - "economic reforms", "opening up the economy", whatever. First go and nag all the newspaper editors and writers and tv anchors who loosely refer to these as 'economic reforms'. Instead of harping on semantics, why don't you talk about the freaking point?
Call it economic reforms, opening up - whatever shit you want. But understand this, and understand it well - China is ahead of India by 15 years because India started the economic reforms/opening up 15 years later. That is all there is to it.
I don't understand why all the Chinese here completely fail to understand the point, and just fly off on a tangent.
When it comes to India/China, democracy and communism has no damn relation with the state of the economy and social indicators, that is what I have been saying. I proved it statistically. Take whatever human development or economic statistics you want and extrapolate it over the next 15 years, you will get the same result. The 'head start' is the difference.
Yeah, your form of government is decisive. Decisive enough for deranged goons like Mao to implement their 'great leaps' and 'cultural revolutions'.
If the top layer is rotten, a decisive government is the worst possible thing that can happen.
Yes, those 15 years were because India "stood aside" as you put it. The leaders were too stupid to read the writing on the walls and change the direction of the economy in time.
I am not taking credit away from the Chinese government for doing the right thing in the late 70s. But the Chinese here need to understand a few things about what is the real reason for things being the way they are.
You are an idiot who doesn't know shit about economics. All growth figures that we see are already adjusted for inflation. Don't make nonsense statements. If you don't know stuff, go and learn about it. Remember the saying, "it is better to keep one's mouth shut and let people think you are an idiot, rather than open it and dispel all doubt".