Shanghai was a bit like Mumbai until the Chinese government did what the Indian government cannot do: in the 1990s its planners, brushing aside any pre-existing claims, cleared the way for developers to construct in barely 10 years the gleaming, futurist metropolis of Pudong, across the river from the Bund
Meghnad Desai, an economist of Indian origin who is a member of Britain's House of Lords, wrote in a recent academic paper: "China will again become a viable Great Power, India may remain just a Great Democracy."
The article is worth reading, the link for it is on IHT
