I have plotted the global rankings of India and China in the field of Orthopedics and Sports medicine over the last 27 years (from Scopus database). It is amazing to see that the India was ahead of China in 1996, but in the last 15 years, China has made a big leap in its ranking, whereas India's progress has been slow and steady! Furthermore, the gap has widened between these countries.
China is now 2nd to USA and has superseded all the other European and Asian leaders.
China government always trying to bring their foreign post docs back at higher salary. Many chinese post docs with me went back to China after 3 years in USA.
India goverment has scheme to higher foreign returned post docs, but those are very less and they replied to my application after 1 year I stayed unemployed in India for a year.
During Modi era, situation may become better. If there is faculty position, bribery is number one criteria in India, from where publication will come?, from dum brains of bribery. One of my colleague at Stanford wanted faculty position at IIT, he was given an offer to pay 20 lakhs ruppees. This is in IIT. Modi stopped 2000 note so that all bribery money holder are feeling very pain.
China has much more better science even becoming equal to USA. Indian science is more than a shit