China made huge push in 1980s, India missed the bus: Jaishankar on China's economic rise

EAM S Jaishankar spoke about China's economic rise in 1980s and said, "When (former PM) Rajiv Gandhi went to China in 1988...India's and China's economies were the same size...But China in the 1980s made a huge push towards modernisation and industrialisation." "I'm sorry to say India in the 1980s simply missed the bus...in 1990s we made some corrections," he added.