pravin

Ray sir
The hukuo system won't work in a Democracy it can only work in a system where government carries a whip in its hand and makes people work

xunil

The Chinese government is quit open about the private college. I heard an Indian company was allowed to open a private college of information technology in western China.

About government universities, I guess they are now the only place where you can own a stable life.

gautam2454

Sir,
This system is in use in West and East Europe. When I went to live in (then West) Germany, I was surprised to find that everyone (Germans and foreigners) had to go to the police to report their residence. The only exception was ofcourse United Kingdom, which is the reason we do not have it in India. Much later, I learned that this was started by Napoleon, and then adopted by most European nations. If you have to report to the police where you live, then report to them whenever you change your address, so that the authorities know exactly where you live, the next step is taking permission to live in certain area. And this existed in the communist countries.
Gautam

Deltacamelately

China, as far as manufacturing more military hardware is concerned.
India, as far as effectively using latest military hardware is concerned.

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Officer of Engineers

Major,

That could be challenged. In the past 15 years, we have seen a lot of military doctrinal and tactical developments from the Chinese (Fist Units, Pockets of Excellence, Brigadization, the War Zone Campaign, and most recently the Light Mechanized Regiment). We have only seen Cold Start from India and that has yet to be fleshed out.

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Jay

Only the foreigners are supposed to register in the Police station per the Foreigner's Registration Act.

I would resist registering myself or my family in any police station as long as I'm a citizen of India. The Govt has other means and ways to find it ration cards, voters id, drivers license etc.

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Deltacamelately

Sir,
my pov wasn't directed at the armies only. I said effective use of military hardware. Our forces training modules are superior, if not outstanding, something even the US acknowledges, not to say that PLA,PLAF or PLAN sucks.

chankya

All governments require foreigners to report current address. It makes good sense to do so.

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Jay

You would think the govt is enforcing it, but it does not

When a foreigner checks in a hotel, they are supposed to fill a form which should be forwarded to the local police station with in 24 hours. Now how many of the hotels do that?

chankya

Good question. I remember how the "Day of the Jackal"(?) talks about how the hotels in France are also required to do so. Here in the US we're supposed to keep the DOHS in the loop about address change.

The hotel plan sounds a bit extreme given the amount of population movement these days. So probably one of those laws the police prefers to ignore. The poor overstretched buggers have enough problems to deal with anyway.

xunil

About China vs India, sports is an area which China is much better than India.

Jay

Ok, if that feeds another 100 million people, I'll be impressed. Soviet Union was much better in sports, would I want t be there? Hell No.

Deltacamelately

Which sport? Be specific.
There are so many of them, and please keep Cricket..Hockey etc out of this.

xunil

I don't understand why people think India is more innovative than China. For example in software. I know India is good at outsourcing. But how many software is actually designed by Indian companies ? How many pecentage of market share, holds by those softwares designed by Indian companies? Indians are good at English, this give them huge advantage in outsourcing, but Chinese language also give Chinese companies huge advantage too. For example, google is the best web search engine in the world, but in China it can't beat Baidu.com. Because companies like Baidu.com had language advantage. It knows Chinese language much better than google. In China, Chinese companies dominate in web search, IM(instant messager), online game, anti-virus, financial, translating and CRM. And also did well in word processing software(20% of market share). Don't you think there is innovation in those companies ?

kuku

What innovation are you talking about, creating anti-matter, in normal business life innovations are something much smaller.

As for product innovation, that happens when you invest money into trying to innovate.

China, India, Vietnam, Russia, USA, Japan, Uganda etc. etc. any nation can innovate if they are trying to.

However most are not even trying as much simpler problems are faced on a day to day basis.

With the sort of huge economy that China has created now surely (may be slowly) much of the worlds innovation will come out of China.

Get subscription to different journals, whole lot of stuff is going around this world.

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