Bengalis are hurt over a statement by the Delhi police calling Bangla a ‘Bangladeshi language’ and the lines Azad sang have unwittingly become protest music in Kolkata now.
Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
In 1978, China was 2% of the world’s economy. Today it is 18%, four to five times India’s size. While India has created credible deterrence, both conventional and nuclear, in the military sphere, the two countries are not in the same league in terms of material prosperity. It is necessary to forge a more realistic and pragmatic equilibrium, one that allows India and China to pursue their respective dreams without hurting or constraining the other. Initiatives like Quad are better avoided. The United States will realise that while there are aspects of Chinese belligerence – in the South China Sea, for example – that it must counter, an effort to block China from peacefully taking its global influence to near parity could lead to a potentially catastrophic conflict. Dialling back the trade war is good news for everyone, including India. It would be good if the boundary dispute can be eventually settled, but it is not holding up anything of value to the two sides.
Sorry we do not see what this article brings as new elements to the current situation of relations between the 2 countries. For more than 60 years of antagonism between the two countries, it does not seem that China has made any concessions. India has had to accept either the fait accompli or concealed concessions (?). The signing of an agreement between the Indian Ministry of the Interior and its Chinese counterpart on the exchange of information on the fight against terrorism is an example, as are the terms of the Indian disengagement of Dokklam. Basically what experts and other officials do not see is that China is developing to its advantage what Japan wanted to do: to create a co-prosperity zone in Asia. In this scheme, India can only have a subordinate state role.
The gentleman in the photograph is the Chinese Ambassador.
In 1978, China was 2% of the world’s economy. Today it is 18%, four to five times India’s size. While India has created credible deterrence, both conventional and nuclear, in the military sphere, the two countries are not in the same league in terms of material prosperity. It is necessary to forge a more realistic and pragmatic equilibrium, one that allows India and China to pursue their respective dreams without hurting or constraining the other. Initiatives like Quad are better avoided. The United States will realise that while there are aspects of Chinese belligerence – in the South China Sea, for example – that it must counter, an effort to block China from peacefully taking its global influence to near parity could lead to a potentially catastrophic conflict. Dialling back the trade war is good news for everyone, including India. It would be good if the boundary dispute can be eventually settled, but it is not holding up anything of value to the two sides.
Sorry we do not see what this article brings as new elements to the current situation of relations between the 2 countries. For more than 60 years of antagonism between the two countries, it does not seem that China has made any concessions. India has had to accept either the fait accompli or concealed concessions (?). The signing of an agreement between the Indian Ministry of the Interior and its Chinese counterpart on the exchange of information on the fight against terrorism is an example, as are the terms of the Indian disengagement of Dokklam. Basically what experts and other officials do not see is that China is developing to its advantage what Japan wanted to do: to create a co-prosperity zone in Asia. In this scheme, India can only have a subordinate state role.