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I was surfing Digg, and I saw this link so I commented thus :-

This article is rubbish. Modern China started on 1st October 1949, modern India started on 15 August 1947. So both countries have been existing in their current form a comparable amount of time. Read this to find out how much China is ahead.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/5181024.stm

Chairman Mao started out with the concept of the iron rice bowl, this policy ensured that no one starved. Freedom is nonsensical when you are starving. The point is, it is not about left wing - right wing, but the balance between the right to do as one pleases, and that the right of the individual to do as they please, be curtailed in terms of the public good.