Different eras have different requirements for geographical location.
In the era of human ancestors, India had a far better geographical environment than China, because India has a tropical monsoon climate and has large areas of tropical rainforest, and tropical rainforest means there is almost endless food.
In the nascent era of civilization, China was better than India. China is a typical temperate zone that gave birth to civilization, while India, which has tropical monsoons, cannot give birth to civilization first. It must be the spread of foreign civilization. The civilization of India first came from the Indus River Basin with a tropical desert climate, which is from Pakistan. If we look at Greater India, that is, if we consider Pakistan as a part of India, then India's geographical environment will be even better - it can breed civilization. And there are larger, stable river plains for farming, whereas China's rivers are anything but stable.
In the feudal agricultural era, India was better than China. Because India has a larger arable area, the Indus Plain and Ganges Plain combined are nearly 800,000 square kilometers, while China’s North China Plain and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Plain are only 500,000 square kilometers.
Of course, in the early civilization, slave society and feudal agricultural era, although China had one thing that was very bad, it was also good, and that was the flooding of the Yellow River. The flooding of the Yellow River is different from other rivers. The flooding of the Yellow River affects a very large area. The entire North China Plain and even part of the Jianghuai Plain (between the Jianghuai River) are within its scope of influence. The Indus River and the Ganges River are very stable. Their flooding, It is not considered flooding in front of the Yellow River. The Yellow River often floods on a large scale and irregularly, forcing the states in the Yellow River Basin to unite under one will in order to resist the flooding of the Yellow River. This is the origin of the great unification. The stable Indus and Ganges rivers, like the two river basins and the European plains, do not have the urgent desire to form a grand unification, so some of their large empires are very short-lived, while China can almost stabilize at 3 million square meters. More than kilometers - the area of ??Qin and Song Dynasties. Therefore, India before modern times was just a geographical noun, unlike China’s foreign name: China (English, Qinna), ?in (Turkic, Qin), (Hindi, Qin), (Sinhala, Qin) Nirvana), Chine (French, Qin), Cina (Indonesian, Qinna), Κ?να (Greek, Qinna), (Bengali, Qin), Tsina (Filipino, Qinna)... is true The Chinese dynasty existed and has been called that way ever since.
In modern times, whoever is closer to the West is not good, so China is better than India. Because except for those Christian European countries that developed successively, other countries were crushed by their industrial civilization. Therefore, the most recent Ottoman Turkey was shattered into slag and became about 20 countries. The next largest land distance was Persia. Since 1828, land has been ceded 17 times. India, which is closer than Persia from the sea, has all been reduced to colonies, while China, the farthest place, has suffered much less losses than them.
In modern times, India and China have similar geographical locations. Because what is determined is no longer population, mineral resources, or available land area. Although these are similar to India and China, the most important thing is the development of science and technology, and the development of science and technology has nothing to do with geographical location. .