Quick notes: China's role | Superpower's backing...

• Do this to Chinese imports too: Customs duty on Paki imports hiked to 200%

Jaish-e-Mohammed is headed by Masood Azhar. China blocked UN Security Council from sanctioning Masood Azhar as a terrorist & thwarted international attempt to curtail activities of the group. But Indians will buy Chinese products & scream nationalism over #PulawamaTerrorAttack

— Abhinav Prakash (@Abhina_Prakash) February 14, 2019




Not a word on the fact that Masood Azhar who heads the Jaish-e-Mohammed cannot be declared a global terrorist because China is blocking the move. Never a any, even mildest criticism, of China. Ever. What does this prove? https://t.co/xw5IQU3ief

— HindolSengupta (@HindolSengupta) February 14, 2019




• Harboring terrorists: Iran says Pakistan to 'pay high price' over attack that killed 27 Revolutionary Guards



• Backed by a Superpower: US Commerce Secretary visiting India to exert pressure to change the country's e-commerce policy in favour of the American giants Amazon and Walmart. 



• Retail apocalypse and India's e-commerce rules: With the “retail apocalypse” shuttering stores across America partially due to companies like Amazon and Walmart, would an American politician ever think of making the same populist appeal (India's e-commerce rules) here? 



• Modi Won't Let Amazon Crush India's Retailers, For Now: Simply put, India’s mom and pop stores are just buying time before they are crushed by retail giants, as has been the case in America and elsewhere.

Amazon won’t have to pay a cent in federal taxes for the second year in a row. But it needs NYC's help?https://t.co/ldaAN2GwcR

— Scott Galloway (@profgalloway) February 14, 2019




• India's English Baggage:

2. Why doesn't India have larger internet companies? If you had to bet in 2000 that either India or China would build a few of the largest internet companies in 20 years, the former—with its English-speaking IT base and fewer internet controls—should have been the obvious choice.

— Dan Wang (@danwwang) February 12, 2019




• Forgetting the Self:




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Search for what’s within the space suit 👀👩‍🚀 . #Repost @babaramdass . When you walk down the street you see other beings who are doing things, who are thinking things, who are wearing things, who are older or younger, who have personal lives. You see all the individual differences, but you also see them as packaging which holds that being. • This is a 1931 body and it’s decaying at a certain rate. It’s inevitable. I mean, I may prolong it or slow it down, but it’s inevitable. The personality of this being has a lot of residual little neuroses hanging around in it. It’s also charming, it’s delightful, it’s warm, it’s intelligent, it’s a personality, and those are my vehicles for being here on Earth. • It’s like a space suit, when you see those guys on the moon, and they’re encased in these suits. Those suits allow them to be in that particular element, and so we are in an element which requires that we be sheathed in a body and a personality. • Notice what I’m doing. I’m suggesting that we are not an identity with our personalities or our bodies, we are something more than that, and the predicament we face in recognizing this part of ourselves is that it isn’t ‘see-able’ with our eyes, isn’t ‘tasteable’ with our tongues… isn’t recognizable by any of our external senses. • So do we take this whole part of ourselves and assume it isn’t real? • [Continue reading via STORY or LINK IN @babaramdass BIO 🙏🏾] • Artwork by @brunofsky

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