As the on-border tension between India and China is increasing, a leading Chinese newspaper has taken a dig at India. After a report from NASA suggested that India shines better than China in the image of Earth’s City Lights, the Chinese newspaper “People’s Daily” published a report titled “India looks brighter than China on a map, but really it’s not”.
While the jealousy is clearly visible from the title, the whole report and reasoning will make you burst with laughter. Here’s what the report reads-
The State Grid Corporation of China has provided three reasons for why India shines brighter than China in the Earth’s City Lights of image, a NASA project to map urbanisation.
According to the Shanghai based media outlet The Paper, India has more plains than China and is surrounded by seas on three sides, which makes the lights appear brighter. Forty-percent of Indian lands are plain and the mean attitude of the Deccan Plateau is less than 1,000 meters, while China’s plains make up 12 percent. More than half of China is made up high-altitude plateaus and mountains, home to about 28 percent of population, which makes the western and northern regions of China seem dim in comparison.
Official data shows China is more urbanized than India, as the percentage of urbanization in China is 57 percent compared to India’s 35 percent. In the map, India has more lights from villages, which take up more space, while China has more large cities that appear as big, round lights that are not as intense as the lights in India.
Actually, the map does not measure the intensity of the lights. But India has more blue and green lights and fewer red and orange lights, the latter of which refer to developed areas.
Experts say India is developing at a high speed, but not at the same pace as China both in terms of economy and electricity consumption.
According to the Economic Times in India, more than 300 million Indians are living without electricity and more than 18,000 villages don’t have electricity.
As we can clearly notice the newspaper has just not been able to prove the point they are throwing. All what they have done is support their idea with silly justifications.
The report was also shared by them on their official Twitter handle and the case was taken by Twitterati.
Check out the main tweet –
India looks brighter than China on a map, but really it’s not https://t.co/hBepcnCzdW pic.twitter.com/QcNewdYrmH
— People's Daily, China (@PDChina) July 20, 2017
Have a look at the reactions-
1
https://twitter.com/pagla_kahin_ka/status/887975900901289984
2
Democracy is always brighter than communist…where u don't give freedom to ur own people…wait for few more years and we will surpass u
— sachin kulkarni 🇮🇳🇬🇧 (@lionsandsachin) July 20, 2017
3
China will shine when Chinese people kick out oppressive Communist rule
— Dinesh Nair (@ottteri) July 20, 2017
4
https://twitter.com/krzbali/status/887977138611159040
5
Get a life
— Analyst 🕵🏽 (@bharat_builder) July 20, 2017
Well, reactions like these don’t suit China. If they think that NASA’s report is wrong, they can prove it with a nice logic. Reports like these are not going to help them enough.
