Monday, July 28, 2003
Foreign Policy article redux
Foreign Policy had carried a story by Tarun Khanna and Yasheng Huang on the India-China rivalry in its last issue. The article was widely distrbuted and discussed in several forums. In fact, I had myself linked to the story in the early days of this blog. Now, HBS's Working Knowledge is carrying an interview with Huang and Khanna about the article and related issues.
We think they see it as a new and intriguing way to look at a centuries-old comparison. The best endorsement for our article is the way in which it has been disseminated. In India, it has spread by word of mouth and been reprinted in numerous newspapers and magazines. In China, one is hard pressed to find public discussion of the article; though the message is being discussed, we've been told, in other, less transparent forums. This is, in some sense, part of the very point of the article!
We think they see it as a new and intriguing way to look at a centuries-old comparison. The best endorsement for our article is the way in which it has been disseminated. In India, it has spread by word of mouth and been reprinted in numerous newspapers and magazines. In China, one is hard pressed to find public discussion of the article; though the message is being discussed, we've been told, in other, less transparent forums. This is, in some sense, part of the very point of the article!
