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China is a dictatorship, the government decides to do something, no choice but to do it.
India is a democracy, government's got to convince everyone, including the powerful and moneyed that the thing they want to do is worth it.
India is a federation of ~30 states, with wildly varying levels of democracy. Now this is usually a good thing; it has allowed us to accomodate a great deal of cultural and economic diversity without breaking up. But a major cause of the pollution in Delhi is stubble burning in neighbouring, which the government of Delhi has no power over. And the union (i.e. federal) government is led by a different party, so they don't co-operate with the Delhi government.
Sounds like democracy doesn't benefit the people idk
Sounds like the people have no say otherwise, idk
A democracy where people have a voice that the ruling class can choose to ignore. Hmm.
Democracy runs opposed to capitalism.
Whatever commie
Sounds like neither benefits the people.
It should've never been bad to begin with. That smog didn't just magically disappear. It's in their soil, their water, their body.
Why?
Oh, right, because they are building and growing goods being sold halfway around the world
LMFAO the only people who call China a dictatorship are racist weirdos from the west who couldn't find China on the map. Here's what people actually living in China have to say https://web.archive.org/web/20230511041927/https://6389062.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6389062/Canva%20images/Democracy%20Perception%20Index%202023.pdf
Don't be ridiculous, the opinions of the citizens of other countries don't matter! What really matters is how I, the enlightened Westerner feel about it based off of what my country's state media tells me! Chinese people don't know what they really want, which is a new cold war egged on by dangerous hoaxes and sinophobia!
Given the massive downvotes, it's pretty clear this is what a lot of people here think completely unironically.
Oh yes, absolutely. Products of the most effective propaganda machine in history.