India & China: so different, yet so alike
In its latest “Index of Failed States“, Foreign Policy magazine has ranked India (at # 110) way ahead of China (and Russia – both at #62) in terms of stability while Pakistan jostles for a position in the “Top 10″ (at # 12) with North Korea (at # 13) – both nuclear armed for good measure.
…and yet the report describes China in words that could have almost been written for India:
“…the growing divide between urban and rural, as well as continued protests in the countryside, reveals pockets of frailty that the central govenment is only just beginning to address”.
For the curious amongst you, the top 3 places in the Index go to Sudan, Iraq and Somalia.
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