OK, some belated edits.

I didn't really mean to say "how India is so much like China regarding surveillance and social control". It's obviously not.

What I was trying to say is how India is so much like China regarding the arguments for surveillance and social control.

I mean, what would China look like now without so much surveillance and social control? Would it in fact look a lot like India? If so, The Chinese government has clearly gone too far. But maybe it would look more like total chaos. In which case their policies, though repugnant to the liberal West, might be prudent.

I honestly have no clue. But it's not a possibility that can be rejected out of hand, I think.