With a Muslim President, a Sikh Prime Minister, a Hindu Foreign Minister, and a foreign-born Christian President of its ruling Congress party, India is as remarkable a success story as the twenty-year boom that China’s Communist Party has delivered. Indeed, since 1991, when a balance-of-payments crisis loomed, India has been shedding its socialist legacies and posting 7.5% average annual GDP growth – only marginally slower than China.
印度总统是穆斯林，总理是锡客人，外长是印度教徒，而其执政的国大党主席则是出生在国外的基督徒。正如中共在过去二十年中所做的一样，印度的成功毫不逊色。实际上，从1991年国际收支平衡危机爆发以来，印度一直在摈弃其社会主义遗产而且其年度经济增长率达到7.5％，只比中国略低。印度已经向世界贸易开放其经济，并且开始对其许多的国营产业实行私有化（尽管经常很慢）。