By 2008, just seven years after China joined the World Trade Organization, China’s share had leaped ahead to 17.5 percent and India’s had grown modestly to 6.7 percent. Maddison found in 1950 the two states were fairly close: China claimed 4.6 percent and India 4.2 percent of total world GDP. The problem with this approach turns up as early as page 2 where Ogden quotes the comparative economist Angus Maddison’s calculations of the GDPs of India and China as a percentage of world GDP over the past two thousand years. Ogden has used this comparison in a workman-like way employing obvious dimensions such as domestic affairs, strategic identities, military capacity, and economic growth. In the early twenty-first century as both China and India began to become more developed and powerful, interest in this kind of comparison revived. This kind of comparison goes back to the 1950s when China and India both took stances as states nonaligned with the Cold War. Reviewed by David Buck (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)Ĭommissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)Ĭhris Ogden has used a familiar trope of comparing India and China as two newer world powers. China and India: Asia's Emergent Great Powers.
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