India's leader is shaping the country in his own assertive image.
'Touch my vest,' Narendra Modi told a startled Newsweek team interviewing the Indian prime minister in his residence in New Delhi in late March. 'Come on, touch it.' Modi challenged Nancy Cooper, Newsweek's global editor in chief, to guess what the blue jacket was made of. Cooper suggested silk. 'It's recycled plastic bottles,' Modi said, clearly enjoying the reaction of his surprised guests.
India's gross domestic product is roughly the size that China's was in 2007, in the midst of a surge of growth that made it the world's second-largest economy. At roughly the same time, China emerged as the world's largest carbon producer. Today China produces about 30 percent of the world's carbon, nearly three times as much as the United States, which still has a much larger economy and much older infrastructure.
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