Xi won’t be walking away from Europe with a win in hand, but his visit will almost certainly ignite arguments about the continent’s geopolitical future.
Speaking at launch of economist Surjit Bhalla’s book, S Jaishankar also highlights Gen Z’s engagement with ‘reel culture’, which has 'promoted awareness, created interest in many subjects'.
Simple truth is that India's support for emerging countries has, at its core, the desire to one-up Beijing. Camouflaging it under moral claims is no less hypocritical.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
Troops patrolled up to Patrolling Point (PP) 10 on Monday. Though there are PP 10, 11, 12, 12A & 13 in Depsang Plains, it was decided that only one or two PPs would be patrolled.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
Lets tackle this point by point
1. “Rules-based” world order. Do all countries have to follow the rules? Surely, the author’s host country doesn’t. It has imposed unilateral economic sanctions on like half the world for whatever reasons it feels like. To secure it’s hegemony. If the rot is at the top, don’t blame others for not following the rules. Just calling it a rules-based world order doesn’t make it so.
2. “without growing economic might”. So being the 4th largest economy in the world is not enough? Only a per capita income parity is a benchmark you follow? That doesn’t seem to be valid when talking about pollution, greenhouse emissions, plastic waste created. Why not talk per capita then?
Please stick to the country you live in now. You have enough problems there to tackle. When you can manage to reduce the mass shootings to less than 1 per day in some far distant future, then maybe think about lecturing the world on how to run their countries. And then think some more. and still, just shut up.
Putting India down once people leave Indian shores, whether students or those employed by Western Universities/companies is fashion these days. Also, most of these are seemingly written for cash/favours/other quid pro quos. It’s a failure of the Nation, that it couldn’t convert its citizens to be patriotic…. external lures overtook them. Hence no respect for mother land. Hope they respect their mother/father’s atleast.
Poor-socialist countries who are allergic to free market but dream of becoming rich and developed, act important, will obviously be stopped by watchmen guarding the tables. Domestic audience are told by the leaders that country is well on the path to becoming a five-star country, but the West belittles our country which is inept even at street infrastructure. The founding fathers pushed the country on the path of socialist hell is the bitter truth that we will have to live and die with. I wish socialism didn’t exist.
Lets tackle this point by point
1. “Rules-based” world order. Do all countries have to follow the rules? Surely, the author’s host country doesn’t. It has imposed unilateral economic sanctions on like half the world for whatever reasons it feels like. To secure it’s hegemony. If the rot is at the top, don’t blame others for not following the rules. Just calling it a rules-based world order doesn’t make it so.
2. “without growing economic might”. So being the 4th largest economy in the world is not enough? Only a per capita income parity is a benchmark you follow? That doesn’t seem to be valid when talking about pollution, greenhouse emissions, plastic waste created. Why not talk per capita then?
Please stick to the country you live in now. You have enough problems there to tackle. When you can manage to reduce the mass shootings to less than 1 per day in some far distant future, then maybe think about lecturing the world on how to run their countries. And then think some more. and still, just shut up.
Putting India down once people leave Indian shores, whether students or those employed by Western Universities/companies is fashion these days. Also, most of these are seemingly written for cash/favours/other quid pro quos. It’s a failure of the Nation, that it couldn’t convert its citizens to be patriotic…. external lures overtook them. Hence no respect for mother land. Hope they respect their mother/father’s atleast.
Poor-socialist countries who are allergic to free market but dream of becoming rich and developed, act important, will obviously be stopped by watchmen guarding the tables. Domestic audience are told by the leaders that country is well on the path to becoming a five-star country, but the West belittles our country which is inept even at street infrastructure. The founding fathers pushed the country on the path of socialist hell is the bitter truth that we will have to live and die with. I wish socialism didn’t exist.