A peep over the China Wall
Whether we like it or not, China is a key factor in India’s policy making function. The China factor materially influences our economic policies, foreign policy, and defense policy. This may be true to a material extent for US, Japan and Korea policy making functions also. Inarguably , the Chinese economy has been one of the key driving forces for the global economy in past three decades. Chinese have labored hard for over five decades, since beginning of cultural revolution in 1966, to emerge as a potent global force. In past three decades they have subsidized the global economy by providing cheap labor and capital; and funded a large part of the US and EU fiscal deficits since early 2000s. The Chinese support was a key factor in keeping the global market afloat during the global financial crisis. It would not be entirely wrong to say that China also helped the developed economies in protecting “their environment” by letting them relocate most of their polluting industries to China....