Why Saudi Arabia Signed a Defense Pact with Pakistan

Trump abandoning Taiwan?

Xi Is Chasing a Huge Concession From Trump: Opposing Taiwan Independence

The Chinese leader views the president’s eagerness for a trade deal as an opportunity to press for his top goal.

Having set the stage for a year of high-level engagement with the Trump administration, Xi Jinping is now chasing his ultimate prize, according to people familiar with the matter: a change in U.S. policy that Beijing hopes could isolate Taiwan.

"So this is the “fart of the deal” everyone is talking about?"



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Trump may be abandoning Taiwan to China’s tender mercies:

Since Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, China has been, by a considerable margin, the largest international purchaser of its oil and gas. Nonetheless, despite threating rhetoric, Trump has imposed no additional tariffs or secondary sanctions on China.

In contrast — India, a clear strategic priority for Washington to constrain Beijing’s hegemonic ambitions — has been hit with 25 percent U.S. tariffs on top of 25 percent “economic” tariffs.



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Swadeshi is fashionable again:

We have faced a 100x increase in Arattai traffic in 3 days (new sign-ups went vertical from 3K/day to 350K/day). We are adding infrastructure on an emergency basis for another potential 100x peak surge. That is how exponentials work.

As we add a lot more infrastructure, we are…

— Sridhar Vembu (@svembu) September 28, 2025

Emboldened Evangelists

Evangelists try to conquer Silicon Valley: Many in the tech-Christian nexus are vocal Trump supporters – or at least sceptical of the more excessive liberal tendencies of Silicon Valley.


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Christianity Was “Borderline Illegal” in Silicon Valley: To have two of the world’s richest technologists, worth a recently estimated $400 billion (Elon Musk) and $14 billion (Peter Thiel), speak admiringly about biblical teachings challenges the view that Christianity is anti-capitalist or even anti-intellectual.


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Antichrist, who knew! Peter Thiel, the gay billionaire Christian evangelist CEO of Palantir is spreading the word about the rise of the Antichrist. This week, Thiel launched the first of a four-part lecture series about the Dark Lord.


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"Moral crisis in tech industry": The Silicon Valley Christians Who Want to Build ‘Heaven on Earth’


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Meanwhile...: AI Startup Founders Tout a Winning Formula—No Booze, No Sleep, No Fun... going San Francisco-sober to 'lock in' for 'grind mode'


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Trump is seduced by Asim Munir ;) "We have a great leader coming, the prime minister of Pakistan and the field marshal. Field marshal is a very great guy, and so is the prime minister, both, and they're coming, and they may be in this room right now," Trump said. . . . Why Is The US So Fond Of Asim Munir?


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The Stupidity of GDP per Capita: What does GDP NOT tell us?



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Ye nahi sudhrega: India seeks people access in US trade talks after H-1B visa row. . . . . "the less Modi talks of the H1B visa the better. Everybody and his proverbial uncle in the leadership circles in the US and the West has about had it with the Indian PM’s pleadings to let in more Indian engineers and science grads as a way of pleasing his middle class voter base".

Modi’s effusive response to Trump sets India up for more humiliation


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'Clog The Toilet': Racist Campaign Against Indian H-1B Holders


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Decouple at cultural level:

Navarro et al are doing us a great favor.

Our decoupling should happen at a Culture level and not just Economic.

Culture is the super structure and the foundation.

Our focus should be to create an elite class whose aspiration is not US mimetics.

Education holds key

So, IKS.

— Raghava Krishna | రాఘవ కృష్ణ (@Anviksiki) August 30, 2025





We are welcoming their universities.

Without even insisting on our learning paradigm.

They educate us on their paradigms, instill their values, norms, behaviors.

They own and curate our aspirations.

And then shut doors.

Globalism for export, nativism for policy.

We must…

— Raghava Krishna | రాఘవ కృష్ణ (@Anviksiki) September 21, 2025

more big numbers in generativeAI

more likelihood that this is a bubble.

Ep. 177: Will there be an exodus of Hindus from the US?

https://open.substack.com/pub/rajeevsrinivasan/p/ep-177-will-there-be-an-exodus-of?r=66qfh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Quick notes: Agrivoltaics | Outsourcing tax...

• Farming under solar panels: "It reduces irrigation needs, shields crops from heat stress, and stabilizes incomes by diversifying revenue streams for farmers".




• Let MAGA eat soy: America’s latest farmer crisis is Government-Grown. Losses could fuel farm bankruptcies around the United States.
  
  
  


• Waiting for socialist bailouts: China’s snub of U.S. soybeans is a crisis for American farmers



• Forever dependent on foreign tech: India's IT sector nervous as US proposes 25% outsourcing tax.. Navarro reposted a call from far-right activist Jack Posobiec for tariffs on services, not just goods.




Blaming AI for India’s IT woes is like blaming Uber for walking less. Truth is: we never built OS, chips or cloud because jugaad outsourcing was too profitable. Time isn’t the threat-our comfort zone is.

— Fropky (@fropky) September 6, 2025




• Trump attacks his cash cow: Hundreds of U.S. colleges poised to close in next decade. “Over the next decade, we’re going through a very painful but necessary re-balancing in supply and demand.”



• Ashtavakra Gita: The Perfect Spiritual Guide to Enlightenment




• Wi-Fi signals used to measure heart rate accurately: Signal variations caused by a beating heart enable determining beats per minute. The UCSC team, which included Professor Katia Obraczka, Ph.D. student Nayan Bhatia, and high school student and visiting researcher Pranay Kocheta, used a low-cost ESP32 chip and paired it with a machine learning algorithm to detect changes in the Wi-Fi signal caused by the heart. They then run it through a machine learning algorithm, which can estimate the heart rate with an accuracy of around half a beat per minute



• "Strength of the U.S.-Pakistan relationship": US firm makes a $500 million investment deal with Pakistan for critical minerals

another big, and possibly insane, bet

so oracle is the latest company that is charmed by openAI

what's going on with google and AI?

people are investing money in the UK? that's just insane

the US surrenders to china. again. TACO on bytedance

THIS is leverage India can only dream of. #taco because the US has no leverage against china. India *has* to build up software products and IP.

Ep. 176: farm distress is the real reason behind tariff tantrums?

https://open.substack.com/pub/rajeevsrinivasan/p/ep-176-farm-distress-the-real-reason?r=66qfh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

i have added an english and a malayalam podcast, both generated by notebookLM.google.com 

there's gold in them thar trash: send it to china!

farm crisis in the US and india's red lines re agriculture

I have been reading of farm distress in the US in the wake of big buyers like china moving on to brazil, hence the Midwest's desire to export Agriproducts to India. and that's a red line for India, because of a) GMO, b) terminator seeds that have to be bought every year from Monsanto and other Big Ag, etc. c) dairy from cows that have been fed ground-up cow parts. and no country can anger its own farmers. so the governors of Iowa and Ohio etc have been visiting India, but I don't think India will buy boatloads of corn and soy from them. there is a vicious cycle in the US: the #FarmBill gives huge subsidies to #bigAg for corn, soy, wheat, rice and cotton. this encourages over-production of these crops, esp corn. that ends up in high-fructose corn syrup in virtually everything: and leads to epidemics eg diabetes and obesity, via #BigFood, which then supports #BigMedicine eg #statins. this is unsustainable. and I am sure #BigTech is in there somewhere, eg bill gates buying oodles of farmland.

white man, illegal alien, beheads Hindu indian in texas

 

https://www.gofundme.com/f/chandra-mouli-bob-nagamallaiah-support-for-his-family

how anglos subsidize the Pak army: mechanism #237

 

this I suppose is in Baluchistan. dream on, anglos. the Saudis seem to know better.

Ep. 175: Where does the India-hate come from and why

 https://open.substack.com/pub/rajeevsrinivasan/p/ep-175-where-the-india-hate-is-really?r=66qfh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

India-U.S trade solution (parody): Hooters in India

This morning, I was doing my customary grocery run and noticed a few well endowed women - White and Latina at Costco. With the India-U.S trade and geopolitical tensions weighing heavily on my mind, their ample bosoms immediately inspired an unconventional idea to break the ice and a possible solution to the imbroglio. In three words - the idea is essentially “Hooters in India”. (Hooters is an American restaurant and bar chain known for its "Hooters Girls," a staff of young women in revealing uniforms who are a central part of the restaurant's image and appeal. In fact, it would not be inaccurate to call it a "breastaurant”). The premise of the idea is that Government of India would allow Hooters to open their franchises across India - with zero tariffs. Hooters in India would employ, as is customary - well endowed, attractive women from the U.S who would be exempt from double taxation and not be liable for taxes on tips (which are guaranteed to exceed their salaries)! In this way, many Americans would be gainfully employed, their so-called “trade deficit” would be erased, their insistence on exporting “dairy products” to India would be accepted - including indulgence of their wicked idea of forcing “non-veg milk” down our throats! I would go beyond “Hooters” and actually invite Trump inc. to setup casinos, complete with strip clubs in Goa featuring full frontal nudity - to employ Americans only, with the sole caveat that they not indulge in espionage and proselytization. Goa is polluted land and beyond redemption anyway after the genocidal inquisition perpetrated by the Portuguese at the invitation of “Saint” Francis Xavier. The sex starved Tharkis of India who throng Las Vegas, Thailand, Sri Lanka, etc. and typically comprise the largest contingent of “tourists” at those destinations would need to look no farther than their local “Hooters” location and definitely no farther than the Trump casino, Playboy mansion, etc. at Goa to satisfy anything that their imagination may conjure. The Trump casino could feature Xavier’s alleged body at his “Basilica” into a freak show all the way from Halloween to “Christmas” like some casinos in Vegas actually do with dissected human bodies! That would save the Desi Tharkis a lot of money and the nation, a substantial amount of foreign exchange reserves - while growing domestic tourism and consumption. It would also, hopefully contribute to decreasing the crimes of depravity against women in India - if Tharkis can legally access world class adult entertainment locally - including “imported dairy products”. Let’s face it Tharki Indians are among the biggest consumers of porn on the internet. Some others have suggested allowing tariff free imports of Wines, Almonds, Walnuts, etc. from California. That is a good idea. It would increase affordability and availability of those products at the lower end. Indian products in the same category are of higher quality and have a niche market that should not be adversely affected by some competition. To the indignant Desis raising angry objections - if we can allow Mc. Donald’s, Burger King, Subway, Pizza Hut, Dominos, Coke, Pepsi, Amazon, Walmart, Uber, etc. in India - then, why not Hooters, Playboy and Trump casinos? This is not a deal that the Failed Marshal AssHim Hijda Muneer can ever offer in Paakistan! He can supply spicy Paaki women (probably has supplied them) to influential people like General Michael Kurilla of CENTCOM but does not have and will never have the “Aukaat” to employ Americans at a Hooters franchise in Bhikharistan. This is a potential win-win solution to the India-U.S trade conundrum which could otherwise escalate into something undesirable - that neither side genuinely wants. The proposed solution includes elements that could really appeal to President Trump’s unique humour, his business sense, give an opportunity for Trump inc. to profit and massage his ego by giving him a win particularly on exporting American “dairy products” to India. However, this is a delicate proposition that needs to be made in a humorous manner perhaps over a cold beer or two or a peg of Scotch to avoid offending the President. I don’t see an austere disciplinarian, a teetotaler and a former RSS Pracharak such as Prime Minister Modi making such an “indecent proposal” ever. So, who can bell the cat? Anil Ambani or Vijay Mallya? If they can pull off this deal, all their financial indiscretions could be forgiven.

Leaked Document Shows Huge Trump Pivot On China?

Give this one a look and see if it sounds credible/plausible:

The old Trump foreign policy from his previous term was architected by Elbridge Colby and called for disengaging from traditional confrontations with Russia & Middle East in order to shift focus to confronting China.

The new Trump foreign policy, apparently also credited to Elbridge Colby, does most of those things, except it holds back on confronting China. So this then amounts to US pulling back from all distant conflicts and instead focusing on deploying its muscle to secure/dominate its own immediate regional neighborhood. (Hence the US pressure on Venezuela?)

A key rationale for this shift in strategy is that China isn't strong enough to fully dominate its own neighborhood, where it also faces some strong neighbors who can be encouraged by US. But meanwhile US needs to dominate its own local neighborhood in order to suppress any local challenger who might attract backing from China (ie. don't let China play same game back)

Well, we've all been hoping for more multi-polarity, and were worried that US as global hegemon wouldn't allow it. But maybe we may now get more of what we were seeking -- but are we prepared for it?

Should we in turn shift toward our own détente with China?

Sri C M A Nayar: Aug 2025 IIT Madras Alumni Trivandrum Fireside Chat on Trump Tariff Tantrums

The second episode in the IITM Alumni Association Trivandrum's live monthly Fireside Chats. Senior executive Sri CMA, formerly VP at Alstom T&D France and Board Member, Alstom India and Areva India, has been in charge of setting up factories in several countries, and has first-hand knowledge of geo-economics and manufacturing. He is also actively involved in analyzing international relations and geo-politics. In this live conversation, he provides insights into the (unintended) consequences of President Trump's tariffs, and answers specific questions from the audience. He considers the repercussions on India both tactically and strategically, and how the nation might respond, with diversification of markets, case-by-case analysis of sectors, and creating leverage with its own core competencies.

https://youtu.be/87079kVe7Ns?si=ncE_9IUQj4ga97Hr

a short clip:

Quick notes: China threat | MAGA backlash...

• Conjoined enemies: "So far we used to say that look China would assist Pakistan during operations, during a conflict, etc. But I think this time it came out loud and clear that it is more like they are conjoined". Lessons From Op Sindoor.
  
  
• Beware Of China Threat In North East: China is extremely proactive in politics in Shan state (and indeed in many other parts of Myanmar). By ensuring Myanmar remains dependent on Chinese economic and military assistance, Beijing indirectly exerts pressure on India's North Eastern states
  
  
• India-China trade: Deficit widens to $99.2 bn. "India is an iron ore seller but not a high-quality steel exporter".
  
  
• Will BRICS boom under Trump's watch? "The dollar would stay "dominant for years, but parallel settlement systems in yuan, rupee and ruble will grow. This won't dethrone the dollar but will steadily chip away at its monopoly."



• Why the thriving Indian diaspora in the US is not an asset anymore: The excessive publicity about Indian success stories and their high income and wealth levels has begun to breed envy and resentment in non-elite sections of the American populace.
  
  There might be a campaign against H1B visas and even a gradual expulsion of persons stuck in a limbo with pending green cards and pending citizenship.
  
  The ground beneath our feet is shifting. And for the time being, the best strategy might be to stop crowing about us becoming a large economy (we are nowhere there in per capita terms anyway) or becoming a big power. We can lie low till our time comes.
  
  
• 'Is it time to pause H1-B visas?': Debate intensifies over Indian tech hires



• AI wrecking careers: There is now clearer evidence AI is wrecking young Americans’ job prospects.
  
  AI is eating entry-level coding and customer service roles, according to a new Stanford study — junior job listings drop 13% in three years in fields vulnerable to AI



• Raag MARU BIHAG: Shehnai - Pandit S. Ballesh & Krishna Ballesh




• "Brahmins Profiteering...": Top Trump Aide On India's Russian Oil Trade. . . . . USA unhinged.. vinAshakAlE viparIta buddhi.
  
  
• We should target Meta, X and Netflix instead: From Pepsi To McDonald's, US Giants Face Swadeshi Heat Amid Trump Tariffs
  
  
• Trump faces MAGA backlash: Trump has opened the doors of American universities to six lakh Chinese students, even as his administration continues its crackdown on International students. "We're going to allow their students to come in. It's very important, 600,000 students. It's very important. But we're going to get along with China".
  
  
• Flip-flopping approach: How Trump Reversed Course on Chinese Students
  
  
• Imperialist: Meta's Zuckerberg pressed Trump on digital taxes before tariff threat. . . . Trump vows export curbs, tariffs in digital tax reprisal
  
  
• Era of US industrial policy: Investors worry Trump's Intel deal kicks off era of US industrial policy.. Intel did not need the money. SoftBank poured $2 billion into the chipmaker three days before the Trump announcement.



• Delhi pollution cutting life expectancy by 8 years: Delhi remains the most polluted city in the world, with average fine particulate matter (PM2.5) levels exceeding the WHO guideline by more than 20 times.
  
  
• Integrated Air Defence Weapon System (IADWS): Chinese expert hails India's new laser-based weapon