HAHA
He is not really praising India. He says he had been to almost all cities in China but it was his first visit ever to India. Why? He did not visit india before. It is crafty or cunning or sarcasm???
My discernments
It is “Damning with faint praise” and it is an English idiom, expressing oxymoronically that half-hearted or insincere praise may act as oblique criticism or condemnation. In simpler terms, praise is given, but only given as high as mediocrity, which may be interpreted as passive-aggressive,
In other words he is praising India so as to control the growth of China…. Westerners are good at divide and rule. Gautama Buddha was shown who was an hardcore Indian, but Chinese in China and around the world worship him a God.
When westerner praises you please be careful as it is crafty!!