India V China

Every where (most recently, Washington Post, Newsweek and Times Online) you read and listen, people are comparing India and China and the fact that India is a democracy while China is not. Whether the Indian democratic society that is bound by leftist leaders and by a need of having to please a coalition will be able to compete with a more flexible, focused Chinese autocracy that is not hesitant in wiping out everything that comes in its way. Which model do you think would you choose? Which is a better model to have for the long term?