All politicians are corrupt. That is the essence of politics, whether in China or India or the US for that matter. To single out India as an impossible country is just one-sided. Having seen China, and having a close circle of friends that have lived in China for all but a few years of their lives, I can say that China might be even more corrupt than India, its just that any writer who wishes to publish aganst such corruption is jailed or censored.I have full confidence that India's dedication to its inward-looking strategy and the service sector will do wonders for not only its economy, but its society as well, whereas manufacturing and foreign investment will always keep China severely dependent on the world market and force Chinese citizens to live in much more poverty and bad distribution of wealth, not to mention teh fact that China's culture has eroded to such an extent that it is hard for me to differentiate often times between Western and Chinese modern culture.
