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Shadi Katyal
10 years agoWhat a childish remarks about China vs India in telecommunications.
The writer should stop such boasts.
Look at China Industrial complexes and food production as well as infrastructure and buying of Gas and il resources in the world.
It is a pity that our inability to go beyond such narrow thinking has left us in the dust of china development