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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.
It does not require a rocket scientist to figure-out China’s ambitions…plain and simple, China wants to be The Hegemon, the dominating force in Asia…only way for India to push back, is for her to develop, not just economically, technologically and militarily but geopolitically as well.
Gokhale’s analysis does not have enough content, as it does not want to highlight Modi’s incompetence and what that contributed to India’s precarious geopolitical position today.
There is no doubt that Modi’s foolhardy ‘Hindu nationalism’ has landed India into a worse position than before with the spectre of having to spend money to defend against a two front war, a threat which did not exist before.
Xi was clever. When Modi was in the wilderness after the Gujarat riots with the west banning entry, Xi entertained Modi. This was when Modi was the Gujarat CM. Hence, we heard a lot about Modi’s look east policy. Modi was touching Xi’s feet and standing with folded hands, out of gratitude.
Xi understood Modi’s psychology and weakness of character. He realised after being rejected by the west, Modi yearned for social acceptance and would do anything for it, and would even overlook Indian interests without realising it. For Xi, human rights violation by Modi was not an obstacle, as Xi does that himself in China.
When Xi came to Gujarat when Modi became PM, Modi was standing with folded hands, expecting Chinese investments. At that very moment, China was doing incursions in Dokhlam. Modi kept quiet. A supplicant cannot complain to the donor.
Modi organised Indo-Sino summits with great pomp and Indian media proudly made out this was Modi’s initiative, and hence a sign of his genius. As PM, Modi continued with his deferential respect of Xi. In Wuhan, Modi simpered about people-to-people contact through STREANH : S – Spirituality; T – Tradition, Trade and Technology; R – Relationship E – Entertainment; A – Art; N- Nature; H – Health Sector (he meant Strength, he made a spelling gaffe as he is an ‘unpad’).
In the Mahablipuram summit, Xi was walking around imperiously, while Modi fawned on him like a supplicant.
When Modi got too cocky and abolished Article 370, Xi gave Modi a kick up the back side. What did our chowkidar do ? He announced there had been no incursion or loss of territory. Even Indian media says otherwise. Due to Modi’s bravado on Article 370, India is forced to spend money it can scarcely afford on the possibility of a two front war. China has India pinned down. Modi is now casting around for the Quad – which is a nebulous concept. It is US led, and India is the weak link – how can the US ask India to be part of a democratic alliance to contain China when the Indian govt. wants to be like Myanamar ? India undermines the credibility of Quad.
Modi is not a deep thinking statesman as made out by the media. The reality is Modi is an ‘unpad’ from the shakha who issued himself a fake DU degree, and who cannot see beyond having personal power. Domestically, he has killed Indians for power, so he will do anything for it. Equally, he will surrender Indian interests to foreigners like Xi or Trump, or whoever gives him money and power. This is the difference between India and China. China is also brutal and has scant concept of human rights, but Xi will not sell Chinese interests and its economy for personal benefit.
Xi is not all mouth and no trousers like Modi. Xi would not buy a Boeing to show he is equal to the President of the US. Modi, on the other hand, is like a typical bottom-of-the-Third-World dictator who buys a Boeing thinking that makes him like the President of the US, and shows India as a great power.
Hence, it is not a matter of trust versus mistrust, it is the mismatch of a competent leader of a country with financial and military power, facing off against a shakha educated, vain megalomaniac with an inferiority complex, who has ruined India’s prosperity and social cohesiveness. India is so compromised that I cannot see how it can recover.
This is one relationship India cannot afford to get wrong. Times change, asymmetry grows. Old equations cannot endure. There is Zero scope in such a complex relationship for personal chemistry. Dokalam was a warning shot that ought to have led to the deepest reflection. Realism, pragmatism ought to be the two dominant facets of China policy.
INDIA CAN COMPETE IF POPULATION EXPLOSION IS ADDRESSED. EGOTIC POLITICS NEVER WORKS, LEADERS MUST BE UNDERSTANDING, BROARD VISIONED, HAVING SYMPATHY OF THEIR COUNTRYME AND MUST BE GENEROUS.
Typical diplomatic speak. Beating around the bush without mentioning the elephants in the room. Tibetans living in India and China’s support to Pakistan.
It does not require a rocket scientist to figure-out China’s ambitions…plain and simple, China wants to be The Hegemon, the dominating force in Asia…only way for India to push back, is for her to develop, not just economically, technologically and militarily but geopolitically as well.
Gokhale’s analysis does not have enough content, as it does not want to highlight Modi’s incompetence and what that contributed to India’s precarious geopolitical position today.
There is no doubt that Modi’s foolhardy ‘Hindu nationalism’ has landed India into a worse position than before with the spectre of having to spend money to defend against a two front war, a threat which did not exist before.
Xi was clever. When Modi was in the wilderness after the Gujarat riots with the west banning entry, Xi entertained Modi. This was when Modi was the Gujarat CM. Hence, we heard a lot about Modi’s look east policy. Modi was touching Xi’s feet and standing with folded hands, out of gratitude.
Xi understood Modi’s psychology and weakness of character. He realised after being rejected by the west, Modi yearned for social acceptance and would do anything for it, and would even overlook Indian interests without realising it. For Xi, human rights violation by Modi was not an obstacle, as Xi does that himself in China.
When Xi came to Gujarat when Modi became PM, Modi was standing with folded hands, expecting Chinese investments. At that very moment, China was doing incursions in Dokhlam. Modi kept quiet. A supplicant cannot complain to the donor.
Modi organised Indo-Sino summits with great pomp and Indian media proudly made out this was Modi’s initiative, and hence a sign of his genius. As PM, Modi continued with his deferential respect of Xi. In Wuhan, Modi simpered about people-to-people contact through STREANH : S – Spirituality; T – Tradition, Trade and Technology; R – Relationship E – Entertainment; A – Art; N- Nature; H – Health Sector (he meant Strength, he made a spelling gaffe as he is an ‘unpad’).
In the Mahablipuram summit, Xi was walking around imperiously, while Modi fawned on him like a supplicant.
When Modi got too cocky and abolished Article 370, Xi gave Modi a kick up the back side. What did our chowkidar do ? He announced there had been no incursion or loss of territory. Even Indian media says otherwise. Due to Modi’s bravado on Article 370, India is forced to spend money it can scarcely afford on the possibility of a two front war. China has India pinned down. Modi is now casting around for the Quad – which is a nebulous concept. It is US led, and India is the weak link – how can the US ask India to be part of a democratic alliance to contain China when the Indian govt. wants to be like Myanamar ? India undermines the credibility of Quad.
Modi is not a deep thinking statesman as made out by the media. The reality is Modi is an ‘unpad’ from the shakha who issued himself a fake DU degree, and who cannot see beyond having personal power. Domestically, he has killed Indians for power, so he will do anything for it. Equally, he will surrender Indian interests to foreigners like Xi or Trump, or whoever gives him money and power. This is the difference between India and China. China is also brutal and has scant concept of human rights, but Xi will not sell Chinese interests and its economy for personal benefit.
Xi is not all mouth and no trousers like Modi. Xi would not buy a Boeing to show he is equal to the President of the US. Modi, on the other hand, is like a typical bottom-of-the-Third-World dictator who buys a Boeing thinking that makes him like the President of the US, and shows India as a great power.
Hence, it is not a matter of trust versus mistrust, it is the mismatch of a competent leader of a country with financial and military power, facing off against a shakha educated, vain megalomaniac with an inferiority complex, who has ruined India’s prosperity and social cohesiveness. India is so compromised that I cannot see how it can recover.
This is one relationship India cannot afford to get wrong. Times change, asymmetry grows. Old equations cannot endure. There is Zero scope in such a complex relationship for personal chemistry. Dokalam was a warning shot that ought to have led to the deepest reflection. Realism, pragmatism ought to be the two dominant facets of China policy.
INDIA CAN COMPETE IF POPULATION EXPLOSION IS ADDRESSED. EGOTIC POLITICS NEVER WORKS, LEADERS MUST BE UNDERSTANDING, BROARD VISIONED, HAVING SYMPATHY OF THEIR COUNTRYME AND MUST BE GENEROUS.
Typical diplomatic speak. Beating around the bush without mentioning the elephants in the room. Tibetans living in India and China’s support to Pakistan.