As the prospects for armed conflict at LAC recede, Indian strategists must now begin the process of making sense of the troubled India-China relationship.
The Indian Frontier Administrative Service was disbanded in 1968. But some of its core concepts are worth remembering today when frontier regions feel a disconnect that was not always there.
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
India and China are like chalk and cheese. China has a centralized, one-party, totalitarian regime, and does not have any opposition to contend with, so it gets on with fulfilling its agenda. Meanwhile, India, which has democratic federal structure, cannot even build a road without people protesting and filing PILs. But the biggest obstacle to India’s economic rise, are the opposition forces, who see their role as opposing and obstructing all govt polices, just for opposing sake. So nothing gets done; that, and refusing to open-up the economy to foreign investments, when China did, are the major reasons why China’s GDP is now five times that of India’s….and growing.
“India lags behind on every major material indicator … by a margin that is not surmountable in the foreseeable future”. They can be surmounted and will be. Xi knows it and the rest of the world believes it. In the long term, India will be the only country in the world that can and will stand up to China!
India and China are like chalk and cheese. China has a centralized, one-party, totalitarian regime, and does not have any opposition to contend with, so it gets on with fulfilling its agenda. Meanwhile, India, which has democratic federal structure, cannot even build a road without people protesting and filing PILs. But the biggest obstacle to India’s economic rise, are the opposition forces, who see their role as opposing and obstructing all govt polices, just for opposing sake. So nothing gets done; that, and refusing to open-up the economy to foreign investments, when China did, are the major reasons why China’s GDP is now five times that of India’s….and growing.
China is the new world super power. India needs to accept or vanish
Dragon has already won by India culturally. Whether it’s shaolin Kung fu, green tea or Buddhism. Just ask them about Bodhi.
In present context culturally enslaved dragon has to be defeated militarily one step at a time.
The defensive mindset of Indian babudom is shackling the strategic thinking. Need to come out of this.
“India lags behind on every major material indicator … by a margin that is not surmountable in the foreseeable future”. They can be surmounted and will be. Xi knows it and the rest of the world believes it. In the long term, India will be the only country in the world that can and will stand up to China!