Investor Ray Dalio, founder of investment management company Bridgewater Associates, took to social media to congratulate India on the successful Moon-landing mission, Chandrayaan-3. He said that India has the right mix of ingredients to take it to the top and that the country now reminds him of China in 1984.

“India’s successful lunar mission (landing its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the moon) is another one of many straws in the wind showing its ascendence. As previously shown in my health index for countries, which is used to derive my projections for countries’ next 10-year growth rates, India scores on top with a projected growth rate over the next 10 years of about 7 per cent,” said Dalio.

He stated that India has the right mix of ingredients that show that it has great potential and the right leadership to catalyse it. “It reminds me a lot of China in 1984 (when I first went) around the time Deng Xiaoping made his reform and opening up policies that catalyzed China. Congratulations India!,” he said.