The Indians are still extremely jealous of China's progress, claiming China's industrialization is all because of help from the West. If that were so, why is India so unlike China even with favorable treatment by the USA and the West in the past? In Indian minds, stealing is easier than copying, which is still the mindset and that is what is holding India back. Jealousy does not improve development. Trying to compete does and India has a lot to learn from China.
The Brits were ruling India for almost two hundred years and all the Indians copied were archaic laws and systems that still hang like an albatross on Indian necks. That shows Indians are so backward that they could not learn a single thing from the West except how to steal whole companies set up by foreigners using those archaic laws.
How about the West copying from China that help them in their progress in all fairness? Did not the West adopt the Chinese use of the compass that provided them the tool for naval exploration and colonization? Did not the West make use of the Chinese invention of paper making that was to revolutionize education and the spread of knowledge? Did not the West capitalize on the Chinese invention of paper printing, which was also instrumental in the spread of knowledge and education? And most of all, did not the West saw the gunpowder invention of the Chinese and capitalized on it to produce weapons of destruction, rockets and provided the essential inputs for space exploration?
The above are just the most important Chinese inventions and innovations that helped to improve the world. There are so many other things that the Chinese discovered or invented that the world does not even realize its humble Chinese origin. In all fairness, be objective and not just swallow the propaganda trotted out by the West to demonize China as a thief and copycat.
Anonymous