Dehradun, Sept. 1 -- If US President Donald Trump's belligerence has pushed India to improve relations with China, would he be deserving of the Nobel Prize? Maybe, if the results of the Modi-Xi Jinping interaction prove to be positive even in the short term. India and China have prospered in their own ways over the past three decades. India has to advance democratically, while the will of the Chinese leadership is imposed on the people. Both systems have advantages and shortcomings, but one may well ask - If China is so rich, why cannot it afford democracy?
China may have advanced materially and technologically, but its civilisational impulse remains imperial - all kingdoms near and far must kowtow to the Chinese Emperor - in the present t...