India’s civil services were once called the ‘steel frame’. But steel is forged in fire, not moulded in a coaching class. While dilution has made the exam easier, it has also made it harder to find the game-changers we need.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
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.