India’s youth and liberty are looking less like advantages over China
IT’S BECOME FASHIONABLE TO VIEW INDIA, NOT CHINA, as the world’s true emerging-market powerhouse. India’s demographics and the political resilience that comes with a decentralized democracy can seem like key advantages over China’s fast-aging, authoritarian society. Yet India’s surging youth population may soon become a weakness rather than a strength, and there are ways in which India’s government may be becoming much more like China’s.
