Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri met with the Executive Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of China Ma Zhaoxu in the Indian national capital Tuesday. The dialogue took stock of the positive momentum of ties in 2025.
Rahul's attempt to read excerpts on the 2020 border crisis with China led to repeated interventions from Om Birla & protests by Rajnath Singh & Amit Shah.
Indian corporate chiefs—from Ambani to Adani—are looking to China as a solution to their tech deficit. And China views India as a market where it can offload some excess production.
Speaking at annual press conference, Army chief reiterated that India does not recognise 1963 Sino-Pakistan border pact under which Pakistan illegally ceded Shaksgam Valley to China.
Even as the Chinese Communist Party delegation also met Congress’s Salman Khurshid, the party accused the BJP of double standards for welcoming the Chinese team to its HQ.
While both India and China have carried out disengagement in Eastern Ladakh, the process of de-escalation is still under discussion & has not been agreed upon.
This comes as thaw in India-China ties gathers pace. In the last year, PM Modi went to China for SCO Summit, while New Delhi & Beijing have instituted many confidence building measures.
Chinese construction activities in the Valley located in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir have gathered steam following the standoff in Bhutan's Doklam in 2017.
Racism is a problem for privileged mainlanders only when it's meted out to them abroad. In their own backyard, it's normalised as 'I was just kidding. Chill yaar'.
The 7 February incident involving Tejas aircraft caused severe damage to its frame. IAF and HAL are working together as part of the Board of Inquiry (BoI) to probe the incident.
For exports, target products with very much higher domestic inputs or value added. Smartphones do not pass that test, at least for now. ( One analyst suggested stopping their exports to America, for they create the illusion of trade surplus. ) That also holds true for refined petroleum products and cut and polished diamonds, where India earns refining margins or labour charges.
In truth India is completely inconsequential. Mired in poverty, indiscipline, state failure and fake socialist theology nobody care about India. India becomes important only when it imports arms. Else even it’s tiny neighbours treat it with contempt and bully it. India is not even in the league of South East Asian countries leave alone the US and China.
If socialist India (read: ant) comes in the way of the two fighting elephants, it will be buried 6 feet under, mercilessly. A country that struggles to build and maintain a pavement should be aware of its limitations. In case it ever becomes rich and developed by shunning socialism (0.1 % chance), it can then try to play power games.
Here comes again the forever ‘moment of India’ . India is and always will be a potential future developed country.
For exports, target products with very much higher domestic inputs or value added. Smartphones do not pass that test, at least for now. ( One analyst suggested stopping their exports to America, for they create the illusion of trade surplus. ) That also holds true for refined petroleum products and cut and polished diamonds, where India earns refining margins or labour charges.
Nicely put.
In truth India is completely inconsequential. Mired in poverty, indiscipline, state failure and fake socialist theology nobody care about India. India becomes important only when it imports arms. Else even it’s tiny neighbours treat it with contempt and bully it. India is not even in the league of South East Asian countries leave alone the US and China.
If socialist India (read: ant) comes in the way of the two fighting elephants, it will be buried 6 feet under, mercilessly. A country that struggles to build and maintain a pavement should be aware of its limitations. In case it ever becomes rich and developed by shunning socialism (0.1 % chance), it can then try to play power games.