A clash of two titans

Chaotic capitalist India v orderly communist China.

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22nd January, 2011

About 50 million years ago, the triangle of the Deccan peninsula smashed into Eurasia, forcing up the Himalayan mountain range. The geological pressures are still there - witness the nearby earthquakes. Add to them political pressures, for north of the range is China, south is India (and Pakistan). Even the borders of these two countries are unsettled, with a war in 1962 and unresolved boundary claims. Each became an independent nation only about 60 years ago, when the British Raj left the Indian subcontinent in 1947 and Mao's Communist forces gained control of the Chinese mainland in ...

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