Why I have the feeling that most of the people got this topic totally wrong? It was never meant to be a current affairs topic so discussing India or China was irrelevant. It was purely a philosophical topic. West symbolizes logic, rationality and materialism while East reflects wisdom, mysticism and religious knowledge. If I had attempted this question my thesis would have been "Any progress is shallow and meaningless if it is devoid of spirituality. East can offer the rest of world social values, norms and tradition that forms the essence of human progress. Any progress is holistic if it contains both the material aspect and spiritual values as its integral part". Anyways best of luck to all the aspirant. When it comes to FPSC, you never know what the examiner is thinking :P

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Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray--Rumi