To me the most interesting passage in the above Foreign Policy article is this: “In its first phase, Wang writes, industrialization “took off in situ.” Rather than moving to cities, farmers began to work as industrial laborers in their villages. “By the mid-1990s, 40 percent of China’s rural labor force was producing industrial goods inContinue reading “What makes Chinese people different from us Indians is what distinguishes “atma nirbhar” from “pate bharo”.”