CHINA-INDIA: FUDAN UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR MAKES OBSERVATIONS ON INDIA

A speech by Zhang Weiwei, now heading Fudan's China Research Institute and a Senior Research Fellow at the Shanghai-based think tank Chunqiu Institute and Wu Xinwen, a Senior Research Fellow at the Chunqiu Institute, to Fudan University students delivered on June 13 was reported by the popular Chinese online portal Guanchazhe. In the course of his lengthy comments, Zhang Weiwei observed: "The recent COVID outbreak in India was also very worrying. World media, including many in India, even described the tragedy there as ‘purgatory on earth'. China has also begun to provide necessary information for the prevention and control of the epidemic in India. help. The tragedy in India today is also expected in a certain sense. I have been to India many times and have given many lectures on India. I have never used the concept of ‘India Rise', because from the Chinese standards, Many deep-seated problems in Indian society have not been resolved, and it is difficult to achieve a true rise.
India’s biggest problem is, I think, that it lacks its own ‘Mao Zedong', or the social changes necessary for modern nation-building. For example, if India does not undergo real land reform, the majority of the population cannot get rich; nor has it undergone genuine women’s liberation, and their high intelligence, accounting for half of the population, cannot be used; India has never truly, profoundly addressed the caste problem, leaving its society’s upper and lower levels disconnected. It is unlikely that such a country will unite and cope with the new crown epidemic. How can it become a truly modern country?"

(Comment: Zhang Weiwei is reputed to echo Xi Jinping's ideas. His observations are quite telling and reflect the thinking of China's leadership echelons. Guancha is maintained by the CCP CC Propaganda Department.)






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