China's $400 billion deal with Iran comes at a time when the US is showing little signs of lifting the sanctions imposed on Iran. This is not good news for India.
Gaining overland access to Indian Ocean through Myanmar is crucial for China’s geostrategic designs. Which means India can’t protest against coup too loudly.
Pakistan’s power supply flipped to a surplus last year after a flurry of coal-and natural gas-fired plants were built, mostly financed by China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
State report released Tuesday suggests a colour-coded classification mechanism that will bring in more stringent supervision of BRI's coal plants and metal smelters.
Talking on India's Vision of the Indo-Pacific in London, Shringla stressed on India's commitment to promote and contribute to infrastructure, economic projects and supply chains.
The country's power generation from coal jumped 57% in the fiscal year through June, backed by supplies from its first coal mine in Thar, developed as part of China’s Belt and Road plan.
China's strategic competitors, including India, are trying to contest its public health outreach. But as of now, countries in South Asia do not have an alternative to China.
Blue Dot Network concept was officially launched in November 2019 at Indo-Pacific Business Forum in Thailand. It will be led by the US along with Japan & Australia.
New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.
The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
Iran: Essentially, China’s long term partnership scuppers India’s alternative route to Central Asia, investments and Islamophilia. It gives China a stable alternative to Gwadar and CPEC:
Develop a long term plan. This has to be a common program that a change of political party running the union government will not cause to flip and flop. If a 60 year plan with 15 year benchmarks can be developed , then we too can develop agendas for other countries to follow. Otherwise we need to stay inwards focused and let the world take its own course. We could focus on health, education, space exploitation, local tradition development (yoga, Ayurveda, low consumption, recycling/re-use and so on). We could develop new and innovative lifestyles that aren’t predicated high volume and high energy consumption.
India foreign policy failure to deal with Iran, new deal China and Iran is sign India will loose Iranian market because Chinese companies will soon dominant Iranian market . India don’t free to take decision without USA approval like China
As they say, all politics is local…India’s policies all seem to be made with an eye towards votebank appeasement, first and foremost, followed other national interests, geopolitics etc. That could explain govt’s many knee-jerk, ad-hoc, on-again, off-again policies, leaving potential foreign investors confused, uncertain and wary.
Both Modi and Jaisha kar thought they are smart,,, now vividly outbeaten by what they not onky hear but been spoken too,,, twiddling thumbs now will be their worries and occupation to stop bragging anymore
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Everything is fine for us….we ve managed our priorities nicely..where iran is concerned…in fact this development sets afoot a new game in the rejion…as every ounce of money in iran goes against some countries in that rejion…namely israel..ksa..bahrain..uae….turkey also….doing all that wt china proposes in IRAN..is not going to be a walk in the park…for china or for that matter iran itself..there are many new complexities which are going to arise..earlier the ME allowed itself to be manupulated by the US majorly…now china also has entered the club wt russia also a new entrant….its going to be a free for all…we have hedged ourselves nicely…
Not sure what India can do. India’s trade policies in any case hardly make it an attractive partner even for it’s immediate neighbors leave alone Iran. With ad hoc manipulation of duties and taxes and an unstable trade regime which is still unable to get out of it’s 70+ years of isolationism and protectionism of inefficient local industry, India is unable to leverage it’s huge market advantageously. Unless India sheds it’s pussilaminity, not much point in beseeching the US for anything.
Iran: Essentially, China’s long term partnership scuppers India’s alternative route to Central Asia, investments and Islamophilia. It gives China a stable alternative to Gwadar and CPEC:
Develop a long term plan. This has to be a common program that a change of political party running the union government will not cause to flip and flop. If a 60 year plan with 15 year benchmarks can be developed , then we too can develop agendas for other countries to follow. Otherwise we need to stay inwards focused and let the world take its own course. We could focus on health, education, space exploitation, local tradition development (yoga, Ayurveda, low consumption, recycling/re-use and so on). We could develop new and innovative lifestyles that aren’t predicated high volume and high energy consumption.
You’re calling Iran authoritarian? What’s gotten in to your head? What’s India by comparison?
India foreign policy failure to deal with Iran, new deal China and Iran is sign India will loose Iranian market because Chinese companies will soon dominant Iranian market . India don’t free to take decision without USA approval like China
As they say, all politics is local…India’s policies all seem to be made with an eye towards votebank appeasement, first and foremost, followed other national interests, geopolitics etc. That could explain govt’s many knee-jerk, ad-hoc, on-again, off-again policies, leaving potential foreign investors confused, uncertain and wary.
Both Modi and Jaisha kar thought they are smart,,, now vividly outbeaten by what they not onky hear but been spoken too,,, twiddling thumbs now will be their worries and occupation to stop bragging anymore
All this just to make usa happy.
I think India should reconsider its policy and should not be a puppet of America
What an article!
Needless to say such research and facts are missing from mainstream media, but how will free media like The Print survive if we dont support them in 3 ways:
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Everything is fine for us….we ve managed our priorities nicely..where iran is concerned…in fact this development sets afoot a new game in the rejion…as every ounce of money in iran goes against some countries in that rejion…namely israel..ksa..bahrain..uae….turkey also….doing all that wt china proposes in IRAN..is not going to be a walk in the park…for china or for that matter iran itself..there are many new complexities which are going to arise..earlier the ME allowed itself to be manupulated by the US majorly…now china also has entered the club wt russia also a new entrant….its going to be a free for all…we have hedged ourselves nicely…
Not sure what India can do. India’s trade policies in any case hardly make it an attractive partner even for it’s immediate neighbors leave alone Iran. With ad hoc manipulation of duties and taxes and an unstable trade regime which is still unable to get out of it’s 70+ years of isolationism and protectionism of inefficient local industry, India is unable to leverage it’s huge market advantageously. Unless India sheds it’s pussilaminity, not much point in beseeching the US for anything.