{"id":15193,"date":"2025-02-18T15:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=15193"},"modified":"2025-02-18T15:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:30:18","slug":"in-the-decade-modi-ruled-india-a-look-at-what-china-achieved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=15193","title":{"rendered":"In the Decade Modi Ruled India, A Look at What China Achieved"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In 2025, China has become ‘competitive’ in all sectors where it was ‘behind’ in 2015 and is the global leader in half of them.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the decade that the Bharatiya Janata Party\u2019s (BJP\u2019s) ideology took control in India, things did not stand still elsewhere. In 2015, China\u2019s Prime Minister Li Keqiang announced a 10-year initiative to reduce China\u2019s reliance on foreign technology and to move China from being a low-cost manufacturer to a direct competitor with the world\u2019s most advanced economies \u2014 Germany, Taiwan, Japan, Korea and the United States. This plan was named \u201cMade in China\u201d 2025. It identified sectors like semiconductors, artificial intelligence, robotics, commercial aircraft, drones, high-speed rail, electric vehicles and batteries, advanced ships and solar panels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sectors were classified into those where in China\u2019s assessment it was \u201cbehind\u201d, where it was \u201ccompetitive\u201d and where it was a \u201cglobal leader\u201d. In 2015, the Chinese were, according to Bloomberg, behind in most sectors, competitive in a couple (high-speed rail, batteries) and leaders in solar panels. The ambition was to ensure that China was competitive or leading in all of these industries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the plan was announced, it seriously offended the US and its allies. The US in particular is not used to another nation being a \u201cglobal leader\u201d in anything, because it alone has the God-given right to dominate the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US also felt threatened by the rise of China, which today has an economy of about two-thirds the size of the United States, and will likely equal it in the next couple of decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This dislike of China\u2019s ambitions was so deep that China soon stopped speaking about \u201cMade in China 2025\u201d. After Donald Trump first took office in 2017, the US slapped tariffs against China. The following year, China\u2019s Huawei came under sanctions and restrictions. Then, under President Joe Biden, the US banned the sale of high-end computer chips to China. All of these actions were to harm China\u2019s further rise and an economic partnership that had benefited both nations began to rupture. Today Trump is willing to penalise Americans by risking inflation through his tariffs, so long as they will slow China\u2019s growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, while China did not advertise the name \u201cMake in China 2025\u201d, the plan continued to be implemented. In 2025, it has become competitive in all of the sectors and is the global leader in half of them. China today produces and flies commercial aircraft of the type only Boeing and Airbus make. The Chinese-made Comac planes are already being used by airlines across the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last month DeepSeek revealed to the world what the Chinese capabilities are in artificial intelligence. This came as a shock to America for two reasons. The first was that the Chinese did this without having access to the most advanced chips from Nvidia and likely without as much access to capital as the California firms have. The second reason was that Silicon Valley never imagined that it would be equalled by a company from across the Pacific. There are only two serious contenders in the race to develop artificial general intelligence, and it is the US and China, not Europe and not any other country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite facing export controls, Huawei now makes chips that are only a little behind the most advanced being made by Taiwan. They are not at the cutting edge, but they are homemade and Chinese talent can make do with lesser resources as DeepSeek shows. China makes its own aircraft-carriers \u2014 the largest was deployed in 2022 \u2014 and LNG carriers. It debuted some of the most advanced military aircraft in the world in January. Of course, in electric cars, high-speed rail, solar panels, batteries and drones, China has no rival. It is the world\u2019s largest producer, consumer and exporter of electric cars. It makes 80% of the world\u2019s solar panels, 75% of the world\u2019s lithium ion batteries (one Chinese company, CATL, alone controls a third of the global market) and 75% of the world\u2019s drones (again, one company, DJI, controls a significant chunk of the global market). China has two-thirds of the world\u2019s high-speed rail network, about 40,000 km (the Ahmedabad-Mumbai distance is 500 km), and China\u2019s network is still growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many in the West, and especially America, have been sceptical of China\u2019s continued growth and believe that it will soon falter. However, this view has been present for at least 20 years but China has not obliged them. Consider that India and China were about even in 1990, on the cusp of our economic reforms, but today China\u2019s economy is six times the size of India\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rupture between India and China after 2020, the tariffs from the United States and a reluctance to grant access to advanced Chinese goods from India, has meant that Indians are only vaguely aware of the progress our neighbour has made. In many ways China is inward looking and the absence of a popular English media there has not made it easy for us to appreciate their progress. Our media\u2019s ignorance or lack of interest in China\u2019s progress has compounded the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the world recognises that China has become an advanced economy, through a plan conceived and implemented over just one decade. Li Keqiang died in 2023, but he went with likely a sense of satisfaction about what had been delivered by China under its 10-year plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was the same decade, to remind readers once again, in which the BJP and our prime minister held thrall over India with their ideology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reference Link:- https:\/\/thewire.in\/south-asia\/in-the-decade-modi-ruled-india-a-look-at-what-china-achieved<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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