Comparartive Article

Fareed Zakaria is host of CNNs flagship international affairs program, Fareed Zakaria
GPS, a Washington Post columnist, a contributing editor to The Atlantic and a New York Times
bestselling author. He was born in India on January 20, 1964. He received a B.A. from Yale
College and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He has alsoreceived honorary degrees from
numerous universities including Brown, the University of Miami, and Oberlin College. He lives
in New York City with his wife, son and two daughters.
Dr. Zakaria was introduced as TIME Editor at Large in October 2010 after spending ten
years overseeing all of Newsweeks editions abroad. His cover stories and columns, on subjects
from globalization and emerging markets to the Middle East and Americas role in the world
reach more than 25 million readers weekly. While his columns have received many awards,
including a 2010 National Magazine Award, his October 2001 Newsweek cover story, Why
They Hate Us, remains the most decorated. Before joining Newsweek in October 2000, he spent
eight years as managing editor of Foreign Affairs, a post he was appointed to at only 28 years
old. Dr. Zakaria is now a contributing editor for the Atlantic.
The Post-American World was heralded in the New York Times Book Review as a
relentlessly intelligent book, and The Economist called it a powerful guide to facing global
challenges. Like The Post-American World, his previous book, The Future of Freedom, was a
New York Times bestseller and has been translated into over 20 languages (Fareed Zakaria Site,
n.d.).
The Ally is all about how India became one of the countries in the world with the best
economies, and their alleged alliance with the United States of America. Dr. Zakaria started off

by describing the condition or state of India in 1982. He said that India was marked by mass
protests, riots, secessionist movements, insurgencies, and the suspension of democracy. Indias
economic growth cannot even catch up with their population growth. He described that an
average Indian would have to work for 57 years just to have his salary or income doubled,
because of the very slow increase in the per capita GDP of India in that time or in the years until
the 1980s. Because of these economic problems, a lot of educated, talented, ambitious, but not
necessarily rich Indians thought that leaving their country would be a better choice or would be
good for their future, believing that they cannot build or make a good life in India. Dr. Zakaria
also mentioned that a good 75 percent of the graduates of various Indian institutes of technology
in the 1980 emigrated to the United States of America, believing that they would have a better
life there.
But by 1997, India became more peaceful, stable, and prosperous. The rallies, riots, and
cries of people died down. The government officials pass on their positions without any incidents
happening. There was even a thaw as described by Dr. Zakaria, between India and Pakistan.
These all happened because of the transformation of the Indian economy, which grew 6.9 percent
over a decade and another 8.5 percent in the next half of a decade. Statisticians and economists
said that if this 8.5 percent increase in their economy would be consistent, an average Indian
would have his income or salary doubled in less than ten years. In fact, a lot of Indians moved
out of poverty in the last decade than in the last 50 years before the said decade. Because of this,
a lot of speculators thought that, Will India be the next China? Unfortunately, China is more
accommodating to foreign investors or investors in general. They can provide a place for them.
India is more concerned with its people, refusing to give up residential areas for foreign
investors. Dr. Zakaria continued by comparing India and the United States of America,

describing their similarities, and said that India is the most pro-American country because of this.
Both countries even have states. America and India are working hand-on-hand towards their
countries development. A lot of leaders over the globe are now flocking to India, promising to
make deep and strong relationships with their respective countries or companies. According to
the Goldman Sachs BRIC project, they projected that Indias economy by 2040 would be the
country with the third largest economy in the entire world, and by 2050, its per capita income
will have risen to twenty times than last 2005. India has now more billionaires than any other
Asian country, and most of them made their money on their own.

On the other hand, The Challenger is all about how China hits the American mind so
hard. Dr. Zakaria introduced this article by describing how much Americans wanted to save
China before, since China became poor at some point after their dynasties. But when China
awakes, she will shake the world, Napoleon said. China believed this and now is shaping the
world. China is focusing on the forces that Dr. Zakaria said to be the forces that will define the
post-American world, which are globalization and nationalism. The results are greatly observed,
since China is growing at an astonishing rate of nine percent a year for almost thirty years, and
moved out 400 million people from poverty. Perhaps one of tis reasons, is that 72 percent of
Chinese do not believe that you have to believe in God to be moral. China is also the largest
holder of money on the world, about $1.5 trillion in 2004. But because it is focusing too much on
the economic side, the peoples personal concerns are slightly neglected. Health care is declining
in China. Beijing is the worlds capital for air pollution. Dr. Zakaria described that the postAmerican world would be handled by China and India.

Right now, the United States of America is allying with India to fight their
challenger, China. Both articles are from the same book, The Post-American World, which
tackles China and India. The article, The Ally is all about the growth of India, and how
America would like to have India as their ally. Personally, I do not think that anyone can
challenge China right now, knowing that even the United States of American has a huge debt to
China. China is still continuing in growing; their GDP is still increasing, but Americas ally
India, is now slowing down in their growth, growing just 5.3 percent from the 8.5 percent.
(Madkar, 2012). Anyway, since a lot of good things are mentioned about India in The Ally, I
guess that they can still regain their growth, making it go back to the 8.5 percent increase per half
a decade, but China is already economically far away from them. According to the World Bank,
Chinas gross domestic product last 2013 was 9.24 trillion USD, while Indias is 1.877 trillion
USD (World Bank, 2014). Chinas GDP per capita last 2013 is also significantly higher, 6,807.
43 USD over Indias, 1.498.87 USD. Anyway, many countries are already higher than these two
countries, like South Korea and Japan, having 25, 976.95 USD and 38, 633.71 USD respectively
(World Bank, 2014). Knowing these means that the United States of America should also watch
out for these countries.
Acknowledging China as a new challenge that the United States is largely unprepared to
tackle, Dr. Zakaria notes that in order to address this challenge, the American political elite have
turned their gaze to India, which is described as an alternative rising power, close to, and hot on
Chinese heels. The attention paid to the role of China, and to a lesser extent India, in this
reconfiguration of world power, however, touches on the issue of nationalism, and in particular,
the question of a resurgent nationalism. Indeed, as Dr. Zakaria observes himself in his reflections
on his anecdotes, emergent Chinese national identity is a potent concoction of cultural and

entrepreneurial sophistication. How Chinas new generation manages these two dynamics will
undoubtedly be crucial to the stability of this new global order that Dr. Zakaria has carefully
outlined.
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