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Thanks to the United States of America wether it be through legal or illegal means.

Hmm. If you are saying we are all interconnected, relying on the diverse resources, products, and gifts from around this small planet to do the things we want to do, e.g. care for our sick, advance the common good, protect the vulnerable, provide stable sources of food _so that_ our global population can grow in a safe, equitable, sustainable manner toward lives full of fulfillment and wonder, away from subsistence living that steals time and health and hope from those stuck with no other choice, then, yes.

But if you mean the US should take credit, then, no.

The US has injected untold billions into the Indian market through off shoring phone support. India has made hundreds of millions of dollar scamming America's most vulnerable population.

US has not injected billions into India! Capitalist companies trying to find cheaper and disposable labour has done it. Of course the US Government police allows that but the policy is there because of these companies not other way around.

> scamming America’s most vulnerable population

Nothing from that goes to Government taxes or public benefits. These people are not out of poverty by scamming.

please try not to down punch some positive news from “Third world countries” if you don’t have any constructive criticism

How much did USA's MLMs, unhealthy food companies and ponzi schems steal from the world?

Not sure but I'd love to see the data if you have it.

Funny how this comment has not been flagged while the relatively harmless comment above has been flagged for driving tangential discussions (rather criticizing China's hard policies).

That's one way of looking at the West. One way to curtail illegal immigration to the states and Europe is to have a way for many people to get out of poverty. When people make a decent living, they won't uproot themselves to move to the US/Europe.

Globalization certainly, to the degree that the United States has pushed and opened borders, absolutely. To the degree that pseudo-communistic countries have reformed their legal systems to respect the rule of law and property, that has little to do with the United States.

The guy who can't get a lifetime job at a shirt factory, steelworks, or software job in the USA also "paid" for this.

The global economy is not a zero sum game, and globalisation worked well for the USA as a whole.

Americans just didn’t share that newfound wealth with the lower classes as well as India did.

Actually, multiple studies have shown that yes, while some did get richer in the USA, the cost of globalization - worldwide - was mainly born by the middle class. People in poverty received governmental assistance.

And as someone who is in India frequently, the idea that newfound wealth was shared as a deliberate policy mechanism with lower classes is somewhat ... discredited.

I believe in globalization - but the US government should have done a better job helping people with it's impacts, and the developed world should stop pretending that there was no cost to others to make it happen.

They redeemed.

Yes, thank you America for crippling your own economy for the sake of India. Please give Biden the peace prize for his humanitarian efforts.

The article is talking about India's economic development during the period 2005-2021. How you mangle that into an anti-Biden remark is bizarre.

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