No need to envy China

In the eyes of most Indians, China’s economic success and global influence are an object of envy. In the clichéd race between the hare and the tortoise, the Chinese hare seems to have won the race. When foreign visitors, including Indians, come to China, they are dazzled by a first-world infrastructure and palpable dynamism. From modern airports, soaring skyscrapers to high-speed railways, the one-party regime in China seems to have accomplished developmental feats most democracies cannot dream of. A natural — and quite understandable — conclusion for an outsider to draw is that China’s unique one-party state has certain advantages democracies simply cannot match.

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