Wednesday, May 28, 2008

China’s economic growth is not just ‘economic growth’

Arun Shourie: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 It is a grave error to be mesmerised by China’s economic growth as if it were just ‘economic growth’. To begin with, much of ‘economic growth’ consists of things that add military muscle. When China produces modern weapons-systems — apart from many other systems, it has made major advances in cruise and ballistic missiles, space technologies