December 26, 2005

Hello, India

By Thomas Lifson
[Editor's note: during the holidays, we are re—publishing some classic American Thinker articles. This article comes from the Beta—test period, before we started daily publication on January 5th, 2004] The widespread use of English is a huge advantage for India over China, in terms of integrating itself into the high tech service economy of the 21st Century. Both China and India have no shortage of smart, studious, and ambitious young people. Both countries have substantial expatriate communities in the United States. But only India can do business in English as a matter of course. This advantage is likely to become increasingly important in the decade ahead. Equally important to economics, India's geo—strategic profile is changing rapidly in the direction of alignment with the United States and its allies. To some extent, this realignment is purposely being downplayed, due to India's need to maintain a more neutral appearance. India is critically dependent on oil...(Read Full Article)