There are things that if you would have if you actually have the money like aircraft engines needed for national security:
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These things are not a matter of choice but the availability of resource.
I wrote to ask you before how many turbo fans , civil airliners , Fighter Aircraft projects could China afford when it was a 4 trillion USD GDP assuming China had all the know how thanks to MSS which had a high budget ? I'm still waiting for answers.
India does not have a single aircraft engine that is able power an production aircraft because it could afford only one project and that project failed.
That "failed " Turbo Fan minus the After Burner is now being trialled to go into our sub sonic UCAV - Ghatak .
Designed by India's premier defense research and development institution, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Kaveri is a turbofan engine.
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Eventually plans are to revive the Kaveri TF Project to achieve the desired thrust ratings it was meant to achieve which we shallb, once it has been certified for use in the Ghatak.
How many indigenous Turbo Fans were flying in your "indigenous" Fighter Aircraft when you were a 4 trillion USD GDP ?
China has many. That alone shows us the reality of the difference in economic ability.
China has many such programs all derived from the AL-31 project today which in the IAF's PoV is a sub standard TF. So good luck to you & PLAAF .
HSR, 5G, EVs, automation and robotics,
HSR is being deployed on a feasibility basis. Unlike the CCP we aren't running a con game of gaming our GDP growth rates.
5G is being deployed mostly with our own hardware & software with zero Chinese involvement . We're already deciding protocols for the 6th Gen for which the amount of indigenization in the hardware components will be significantly higher than it is for the 5th Gen .
You'd see a lot of Indian EVs OEM running on Indian mfgd EV battery systems developed indigenously by the end of this decade. As far as robotics go , you definitely need it given the state of your TFR. There's absolutely nothing in that list above which is INNOVATIVE. That's the reason why we'd catch up with you .
2K handbags, meat, beer, AC consumption, etc. are all there as evidence of huge disparities between the two economies but Indians like to say those are just preferences.
2K handbags are what western slaves prefer just as those western slaves prefer adopting western names , lifestyle , attire , wedding attire etc .
Meat , beer etc are individual preferences. What next ? You'd put up a list saying Chinese love dog meat , bat meat , dead human foetus soup showing how consumption of such meat is zero in India ?
AC consumption ? It must be barely 3 decades you've started manufacturing ACs & look at your arrogance !! I'm betting you peasants didn't even know what's an AC or it's spelling 4 decades ago.
In aircraft engines, I doubt Indians really prefer to have no working engine. It is just the reality of a much smaller economy.
*Yawn *