For Korean companies, India is a lucrative cash cow: LG India reported revenue of Rs 24,366 crore and a net profit of Rs 2,203 crore last year. Royalty payments to its Korean parent reached Rs 454.61 crore. But the real headline came with its 2025 IPO: In one stroke, LG India’s market capitalisation surpassed that of its global headquarters’. And it was purely due to generous policy environment.
Hyundai Motor India and its sibling Kia tell a similar tale of extraction masked as investment. Royalty payments stand at 3.5% of sales revenue, translating into thousands of crores annually repatriated to Seoul. Such an anomaly has left Tata Motors and Mahindra to fight an uphill battle against what many term subsidized Korean pricing power.
Samsung India completes the triumvirate of value extractors. Its revenue for the first time crossed Rs 1.11 lakh crore during 2025, making it the only consumer-electronics firm in India to cross the trillion-rupee mark. During 2024, royalty remittances to the Korean parent hit Rs 3,322 crore, roughly 40% of that year’s net profit. Retained earnings have ballooned and been diverted to Vietnam.
Profits earned from Indian consumers through high royalties, IPO cash-outs and dividend flows are effectively subsidizing Vietnamese factories that then export finished goods back into India. Why? Should Korean conglomerates plough cash extracted from India into manufacturing facilities in a smaller neighbor that then undercuts Indian industry? The optics is toxic: India as a lucrative cash cow, Vietnam as the preferred factory floor.
Decades of liberalization were sold on the promise that FDI would catalyze domestic industry, transfer technology and create balanced growth. Instead, the policy has tilted towards foreign giants who repatriate profits, royalties, special dividends and IPO proceeds liberally.
On the other hand, Indian firms struggle with higher compliance costs, delayed approvals, and a royalty burden that starves local innovation.
Part of what pushed this into the open is what Korean firms did here in the last year.
Hyundai and LG listed their Indian arms and between them sent about $4.7 billion back to Seoul through IPOs and special dividends. Samsung's royalty payments to its parent tripled. All within… pic.twitter.com/e2Nbsuxew6
Draining the economy: The proof is in the math: In just the last 12 months, Hyundai and LG repatriated $4.7 billion in royalties and profits. That is nearly ₹40,000 crore leaving our economy.
Localization of parts is not the same as localization of value. You can source 85% of a car’s weight (steel, rubber, glass) in India, but if the Intellectual Property (IP), engine architecture, and software ownership sit in Seoul, the wealth generated by Indian labor and…
Funding the Adversary: India’s trade deficit with China has nearly tripled since Modi took office. Bankrolling China's rise which in turn lays claim to vast Indian territories including an entire state.
Trump kissing Xi Jinping's ass: A quiet U.S. favor for Xi Jinping.. A U.S. quota increase at the IMF would rescue China’s bad loans.
Trump is scheduled to visit Beijing in May for a summit with Xi, and he will come bearing at least one surprising gift: A budget request to Congress to hand more money to Mr. Xi’s friends at the IMF.
Chinese satellites over Mideast battlefield put US on edge: Chinese AI company MizarVision claimed on social media to have tracked the movements of American aircraft carriers, F-22 stealth fighters and B-52 bombers by using AI to analyze satellite data.
Microwave weapon: 20-gigawatt Chinese microwave weapon touted as ‘Starlink’s worst nightmare’ by country's media — portable 5-ton device can deliver full-minute destructive bursts
Lesson for India, the GREAT consumer of imported tech: Iran claims US exploited networking equipment backdoors during strikes — says devices from Cisco and others failed despite blackout in attack that 'indicates deep sabotage'
Privacy risk: Google Chrome lacks protection against one of the most basic and common ways to track users online
IMEC resurrected: India–Turkey tensions shape IMEC route via Oman Jordan, Israel and Greece.
Three new political-economic axes have been converging in recent weeks — none of which include Turkey:
1. A renewed Qatar–Saudi axis, including the announcement of the Doha–Riyadh high-speed rail line and economic agreements between Saudi Arabia and Syria.
2. The Oman–India–Jordan axis, forming the eastern and western anchors of IMEC trade routes.
3. The Israel–Cyprus–Greece axis, connecting IMEC from the Middle East to Europe via the Mediterranean.
Your Zomato order is clogging your testicles: People who have five to 10 takeaways per month might be consuming excessive microplastic from the containers their meals come in.
"Miicro- and nano- plastics, have been detected in virtually every organ in our bodies, including arteries, brain, blood, placenta and testicles".
Leftists abandoning Muslim women? Who knew! "So many big names in progressive and feminist circles, would personally agree with us, but when it came to taking a public stand, they'd go back on their promise. Only Asghar Ali Engineer stuck publicly to the stand he took privately. And he bore the brunt for doing so".
Putin-Bush talks: 'A Junta with nukes'-revelations on Putin-Bush talks disclose Putin's 'Pakistan' warning
Pakistan’s military "success" over India in its four-day clash showcased Chinese weaponry. While characterization of this conflict as
a “proxy war” may overstate China’s role as an instigator, Beijing
opportunistically leveraged the conflict to test and advertise the
sophistication of its weapons, useful in the contexts of its ongoing
border tensions with India and its expanding defense industry goals.
As Pakistan’s largest defense supplier, China provided approximately 82 percent of the country’s arms imports from 2019 to 2023.204
This clash was the first time China’s modern weapons systems,
including the HQ-9 air defense system, PL-15 air-to-air missiles,
and J-10 fighter aircraft were used in active combat, serving as a
real-world field experiment.205 China reportedly offered to sell 40
J-35 fifth-generation fighter jets, KJ-500 aircraft, and ballistic missile defense systems to Pakistan in June 2025.206 That same month,
Pakistan announced a 20 percent increase in its 2025–2026 defense
budget, raising planned expenditures to $9 billion despite an overall
budget decrease.
In the weeks after the conflict, Chinese embassies hailed the successes of its systems in the India-Pakistan clash, seeking to bolster
weapons sales. Pakistan’s use of Chinese weapons to down French
Rafale fighter jets used by India also became a particular selling
point for Chinese Embassy defense sales efforts despite the fact that
only three jets flown by India’s military were reportedly downed and
all may not have been Rafales.
According to French intelligence,
China initiated a disinformation campaign to hinder sales of French
Rafales in favor of its own J-35s, and it used fake social media accounts to propagate AI and video game images of supposed “debris”
from the planes China’s weaponry destroyed. Chinese Embassy
officials convinced Indonesia to halt a purchase of Rafale jets already in process, furthering China’s inroads into other regional actors’ military procurements.
China Opportunistically Used Pakistan’s Military Crisis to Test and Promote Its Own Defense Capabilities
The Indian Army claimed China helped Pakistan with “live inputs” on Indian military
positions throughout the crisis and effectively used the conflict as
a testing ground for its own military capabilities.
The Jeruselam post: How Pakistan shot down India's cutting-edge fighter using Chinese gear
Prof Bharat Karnad: In retrospect, Modi made the gravest strategic error by calling the White House after the Indian missiles had been fired at the terrorist facilities in Muridke and Bahawalpur on May 7 to inform the US President that the Indian strikes were limited retaliation for the Pahalgam massacre.
Modi was telling him nothing he did not already know. But the act of Modi telling him is what marked India out in the pecking order as a subsidiary power trying to preempt Trump from lashing out. It did not work.
Not sure why Modi feels it imperative to please the US President, when Trump insults and humiliates in return. Because going strictly by his transactionalist tilt, it is Trump’s America that will be hard put strategically to replace India in the Indo-Pacific, to economically find a market as vast as India’s to sell to.
Dr Ajai Sahni: Trump has over the years made several statements which suggest that he is interested in a (mediatory) role in the Kashmir conflict. I think this is a very definitive disadvantage or loss as far as India is concerned.
"Whatever You Need": Russia Offers "5th Generation Fighter" Tech To India.
India loses airbase in Tajikistan: The Ayni Airbase in Tajikistan, once India’s only real overseas military footing has been quietly vacated after pressure from Russia and China.
Water scarcity - Pakistan's Arabia wish coming true: Afghanistan has announced plans to construct a dam on the Kunar River, a key tributary of the Kabul River, aiming to restrict water flow to Pakistan after deadly clashes along the Durand Line.
Why Taliban trusts India but hates Pakistan: After 2001, India quietly supported Afghanistan with schools, roads, and Deobandi education. Meanwhile, Pakistan trained the old Taliban with violent Wahabi ideas. Pakistan also mistreated Afghan refugees and tried to control them. Today, the new Taliban trusts India and rejects Pakistan’s influence.
Is there something deeper in the US' muted response to Munir's remarks that signals strategic indifference to stability in South Asia?
I think they are actually encouraging the Pakistanis to do this because they think that the Indians have got too big for their boots.
The current American establishment thinks that we need to cut the Indians down to size, and they will pull out all stops to do that.
People think this is just about some trade deal, but why should India take GM seeds from the Americans? Why should we go into bondage with the Americans on something as basic as seeds?
Can one infer that the US is using Munir's threats against India to get even with the Modi government for not succumbing to tariff threats?
I won't say the US president is firing from Munir's shoulders, but he doesn't object if somebody is doing this. What he is probably trying to do is use Pakistan as a tool against India -- partly to negotiate, partly to cut India to size.
That's the old American game, or at least that's what has been the feeling in India -- that it's the Americans who ensure that things never settle down in this region. I would add the Brits to that, but they don't exercise the same power as they did. They just have a great ability to sabotage things and disturb things. - Sushant Sareen, Senior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation
'Trump Tilting Towards Pakistan' - Max Abrahms: "What we had not heard before is this sort of nuclear threat from American soil. And if this was the only incident, I would find it rather unremarkable. But what we are currently witnessing is a trend where it appears that this second Trump administration is tilting towards Pakistan and away from India. We've actually seen it throughout this whole summer."
"I will say, however, that even if some of the tariffs are lifted, I still think that the US-India relationship may not fully recover for quite some time under this administration".
"Because the message to India is that the United States isn't reliable, and that is happening at the same time that the US is inviting the army chief of Pakistan for high-level meetings, including with the President in the United States".
From McDonald's and Coca-Cola to Amazon and Apple, U.S.-based multinationals are facing calls for a boycott in India to protest against U.S. tariffs.
India, the world's most populous nation, is a key market for American brands that have rapidly expanded to target a growing base of affluent consumers, many of whom remain infatuated with international labels.
India, for example, is the biggest market by users for Meta's WhatsApp and Domino's has more restaurants than any other brand in the country. Beverages like Pepsi and Coca-Cola often dominate store shelves, and people still queue up when a new Apple store opens or a Starbucks cafe doles out discounts.
Rahm Shastry, CEO of India's DriveU, which provides a car driver on call service, wrote on LinkedIn: "India should have its own home-grown Twitter/Google/YouTube/WhatsApp/FB — like China has."
I am discussing USA & China collaborating to break up India and share different pieces. They will also divide the Muslim parts of South Asia to keep them from uniting into a massive Islamic power. China will want the northern parts and maybe some Marxist belts, along with access…
Can India create its own Ivy League? The country is home to around a fifth of the world’s university-age population. Why are they going abroad? India has been losing academic talent to America for decades.
China and Europe luring American scientists: Dr. Patapoutian’s federal grant to develop new approaches to treating pain has been frozen. Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to “any city, any university I want,” he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.
Saver of Pakistan: Trump to be nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by Pakistan. . . . Trump is in awe of strongmen, alpha leaders, who stand up to him. Recall how Kim Jong-un of North Korea tamed him, and Putin has him on a leash.
Securing its world-domination: China-backed militia secures control of new rare earth mines in Myanmar. China has a near-monopoly over the processing of heavy rare earths into magnets that power critical goods like wind turbines, medical devices and electric vehicles. But Beijing is heavily reliant on Myanmar for the rare earth metals and oxides needed to produce them.
Morgan Stanley: China Is Maneuvering US “Into Weakness” When It Comes To Making Advanced Robots.
Urban Highways Suck: "Cars and highways are great. But neither of them belong in cities". . . From Atanu Dey's blog.
Car economy leaves India's middle class fuming: India has more than twice as many kilometers of roads per square kilometer of land as the US. China, which has built a lot of highways but chosen highspeed trains as the focal point of transport, has a much lower density.For intercity travel, India’s template ought to have been 21st-century China, not 20th-century America.
The fastest train journey between Chennai and Bengaluru takes over four hours. In that time, one could go from Beijing to Shanghai, a distance nearly four times greater. Within cities, subways are coming up even in places where they aren’t a practical option.
GOP versus scholars: The US is witnessing the beginnings of a Science brain drain. Other countries may benefit.
India must decide if it’s ready to welcome back scholars: A perceived threat to academic freedom is prompting many academicians to consider relocating. Countries in Europe have taken swift action on the perceived brain drain from the US. Emmanuel Macron extended an open invitation to the best brains to relocate to France.
Deep tech, shallow pockets: Indian deep tech startups raised only about 3.2% of the total funds funneled into Indian startups since 2014. Unlike e-commerce, ride-hailing or financial services, where revenues kick in from the beginning, startups focusing on deep tech take years to develop and commercialize their products. While Silicon Valley might have become obsessed with startups dealing in robotics, rockets, chips and other complex technologies, such deep tech companies are having a much harder time fundraising in India. . . Frugal tech.
Bharat Karnad: "The trouble lies in Modi’s inordinate desire to please America, to be in Trump’s good books, and that’s the joker in the pack".
Remittance Tax: Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill' proposes 5% remittance tax, may cost India $1.65 billion
Tenacity: Xi defiance pays off as Trump meets most China trade demands
Stand tough: China-US trade truce prompts nations to consider tougher tactics
Al-Bakistan: Afghanistan plans to build dams to cut water flow to Pak . . . Pak always wished to turn into Arabia.. water scarcity coming soon :)
#FundKaveriEngine trending: Many called on PM Modi to allocate more funds and resources for the Kavera engine. The goal is to end India's dependence on foreign engines for building fighter jets, promoting self-reliance in defence technology.
US DIA Report: China still India's 'primary adversary', Pakistan mere security problem.
Prepare for China conflict: "If India really did lose between two and five aircraft, as most outside analysts believe is the case, the explanation for that appeared to be the superior radar of the Chinese aircraft. I hope Indians are really reflecting upon what does this mean for a potential China-India conflict, not just what does this mean for future India-Pakistan conflicts".
UK gains: Because British exports are so much higher value than Indian exports of clothing, footwear, and food, this should be worth £15bn extra for British exports and £10bn for India by 2040. . . expect this to get even worse for India Roll out the barrel: Scotch makers toast UK trade deal with India. . Our riches attracted invaders and colonizers. Today it is our dhaaru culture that is drawing them.
FTA Impact: Scotch to get cheaper, Indian liquor stocks dip
Limeys and cheating: India's exports to the UK may be impacted by Britain's decision to introduce carbon tax from 2027. “If Indian exports still face CBAM levies while UK goods enter India duty-free, it risks turning a balanced FTA into a one-sided bargain”.
Limeys and looting: Sotheby's halts Buddha Piprahwa Gems auction. The collection is described as one of the most astonishing archaeological finds of the modern era. Its sale had drawn criticism from Buddhist academics and monastic leaders.
Kill chain: While a spendthrift IAF invested in prohibitively priced weapons platforms, like the Rafale, the PAF invested in the “kill chain” inclusive of a few J-10Cs, Saab AWACS and mostly long range A2A ordnance.
The PAF has initiated a new method of air warfare — combat aircraft staying well back in their own air space, firing long range air-to-air (A2A) and air-to-ground (A2G) weapons with exceptional support. Rafales cost $250 million each. The fleet of 36 is now depleted.
The US is keen to push the far more useless and expensive F-35 on Modi’s India.
US tariffs come with a side of Starlink: The US is reportedly encouraging countries to adopt Musk’s Starlink in tariff trade talks. India, Lesotho, Bangladesh, and other countries have moved forward with Starlink adoption in recent weeks.
Woke flight? Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US
Indus water treaty:
Denying Pakistanis even “a drop” of any of these waters is not a practical proposition in the here and now, and cannot be engineered out of thin air in the near or even mid-term. Constructing the dam infrastructure and system of subsidiary dams, etc on the eastern rivers to divert them fully to flow through India — assuming it is at all, practicable, will take India some two decades to realise. In all this time, the western river waters will be available to Pakistan.
Arm-twisting: US pressures India to give Amazon, Walmart full market access.
Setback for domestic chips: Adani pauses talks with Israel's Tower for $10 billion India chip foray. "Did not make strategic and commercial sense for the group".
Indian owned startup in Silicon Valley: These electric motors could help break the world’s dependence on China's rare-earths. Conifer technical lead Yateendra Deshpande spent years helping design some of the world’s most advanced electric motors, including the ones powering Lucid Motors luxury cars. He has worked at Apple on its ill-fated car project. His co-founder, Ankit Somani, worked on data-center designs at Oracle and Google.
Blended wing aircraft: JetZero Secures $235M U.S. Air Force Contract As United Airlines Eyes 200 Orders For Revolutionary Blended-Wing Aircraft
Land-grab: 50 Christian farmers embroiled in land dispute join BJP hours after Waqf Bill passed. They have been protesting for several months for revenue rights over their properties, allegedly claimed by the Waqf Board.
30% less jobs: Microsoft's CEO reveals that AI writes up to 30% of its code — some projects may have all of its code written by AI
White House: Pakistan's ballistic missile programme emerging threat to US . . . Led by Russia & China, Pakistan eyes “Elite League” of group that can hit U.S with nuclear-armed missiles
Caliphate nextdoor: Pakistan may use Bangladesh as a corridor to send arms to India's northeast. Pakistani ships are now sailing into Bangladesh ports and the earlier orders to examine all cargo on these ships has been waived.
Adani deal: Andhra Pradesh is likely to pay as much as 23 per cent over the price it agreed in the contract once the taxes and duties are included. Annual payments to Adani once the power supply is fully operational will be roughly equal to state spending on social security and nutrition programs for the previous fiscal year
Narayana Murthy on Mass Migration To Bengaluru, Pune: These cities have become extremely challenging to live in, difficult to navigate, and have witnessed rising pollution levels. They are heading toward becoming unlivable
"No Silicon Valley": Startup Founder Reveals Why He Left Bengaluru In Just 16 Months... "Bengaluru is a place that encourages companies to grow fast and fail fast. That kind of pressure didn't align with the needs of a healthcare business, which has no room for error and demands significant trust from people... I felt excluded because I didn't speak Hindi and I wasn't an alumnus of the IIT".
AI reality check: The Next Great Leap in AI Is Behind Schedule and Crazy Expensive. Leading developers like OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are finding their models aren’t improving as dramatically as they once did and profitability remains elusive.
Sino-Russian joint efforts in semiconductors? Russia plans EUV chipmaking tools that it says will be cheaper and easier to build than ASML's — country outlines new roadmap to smaller chips
How bad is Pakistan's image internationally?Couple of years back, I was at a place called Rouen, a pretty small town, about 3 hrs away from Paris. What was interesting was that there were a lot of Indian Restaurants in this small town, with names such as Rajasthan, Gandhi, Maharaja, Delhi, Namaste, etc. Each of these restaurants had a lot of symbols of India, Indian tradition & culture and things related to India.
What was surprising was that all of these restaurants were owned by people from Pakistan. Every staff working there were also from Pakistan. And all of these restaurant owners received me & my team very warmly. On asking why do they have Indian names, it was a common answer - Restaurants with names or references to Pakistan don’t really work. Hence, they bank on Indian names.
Dagestan: Muslim mob storms Russian airport in search of Jews
Instagram and girls: Instagram sued over harm to young people's mental health . . Meta pauses ads for users under 18 in Europe as it rolls out subscriptions. . . Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show... "Days Of Free Pass Over"
NBA star: "China uses money to buy silence and they just bought Elon".
Silicon Valley: Led by physicist Robert Noyce, Fairchild Semiconductor began as a start-up company whose radical innovations would help make the United States a leader in both space exploration and the personal computer revolution, changing the way the world works, plays, and communicates.
Lithium: China controls more than half of the world's lithium processing and refining capacity. 80% of the global lithium is currently sourced from Australia, Chile and China
Ellara Kannada: Has the influence of Sanskrit on Kannada created barriers for learning and usage? “When it comes to science terms, we have complicated words rooted in Sanskrit. We wanted to find simpler equivalents”.
Cremation - A Greener Way to Die: Conserved corpses can go on display in caskets that, collectively, use tons of wood and steel, which we then bury in concrete containers. Instead of returning bodily nutrients, like potassium and calcium, to the ground, they slowly molder while shielded from the dirt. Lack of oxygen causes wasting flesh to release methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than the carbon dioxide we’d produce in open air.
Meanwhile, embalming fluid can leak into soil and make its way into our groundwater, potentially at hazardous concentrations. Our final contribution to humankind: toxic ooze. Many countries favor an option lighter on chemicals: cremation. It’s also becoming popular in the U.S.
A case for e-commerce export zones: Making Indian products available to the international customer at the click of a button would be an effective push to ‘Make in India’ as ECEZs become the gateway to ‘Make for the World’.
Modern-Day Pagans Celebrate Ancient Gods: Many are reacting to a childhood religion they found inadequate or oppressive.. They avoid “churchy” language as much as possible because it “can be a very big turnoff for people who were angry at their past religious affiliation... “As the Millennial generation enters adulthood, its members display much lower levels of religious affiliation, including less connection with Christian churches, than older generations.”
Islam cannot bind: Millions of Muslim migrants in Pakistan hope for path to citizenship
Karima Mehrab Baloch: Missing human rights activist who had fled Pakistan found dead in Toronto. She was a vocal critic of human rights abuses in Pakistan and a supporter of autonomy for Balochistan. Earlier this year, Sajid Hussain, founder and chief editor of The Balochistan Post, was found dead in the Fyris River near Uppsala, Sweden.
Kidnap, torture, murder: the plight of Pakistan’s thousands of disappeared | Global development | The Guardian https://t.co/PFPjcqGw4x
US Congress passes landmark bill in support of Tibet: It will pave the way for the U.S. to issue economic and visa sanctions against any Chinese officials who interfere with the succession of the Dalai Lama, and will require China to allow Washington to establish a consulate in Lhasa — the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region – before Beijing can open any more consulates in the U.S.
VerSe: Indian TikTok copycat gets Google, Microsoft backing in $100 million fund raise. VerSe also owns news and content platform Dailyhunt, which offers content in multiple Indian languages.
Castor Oil Benefits, Side Effects, Dose: It acts as tonic, laxative and helps in rejuvenation. It is also useful in relieving worm infestation, Abdominal colic, intermittent fever, skin diseases, Rheumatoid arthritis, hemorrhoids with hard stool problem and constipation.
Social media amplifying mass unrest: Extremists across the spectrum have mastered the use of social media to mobilize supporters. Radical Left and Islamists are seeding themselves within the overwhelmingly non-violent protesters.
Wherever you find a terrorist, just raise the tail of terrorists & you will see a stamp there.. Made in Pakistan🇵🇰
This is Urooj Rehman, a Pakistani student of American #JNU .. caught red handed throwing bottle bombs in public places. Bottles & bomb making stuff was enough in car pic.twitter.com/lp9Q3b3Af1
Kerala model?
Kin shun elderly returnees fearing COVID-19 infection. “Though it’s the
obligation of the children and relatives to take care of them, many are
trying to shirk their responsibilities. We get many calls seeking
institutional quarantine for returnees. Sadly, the family members are
not even considering their age,” said a health official.
Extra Salty: Scientists just built the best sodium battery ever.
Maithreem Bhajatha: 47 voices as ONE - Conceptualized by Sudha Ragunathan & S.Mahathi
Digested: Herb Benson studied Transcendental Meditation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and is now repackaging it as "Relaxation Response".
E-Bikes Are Having Their Moment: “I was convinced that e-bikes would completely change cities all over the world in the next 10 years, but it seems like because of this crisis, suddenly it’s all happening in the next three or four months”... In March, sales of e-bikes jumped 85% from a year earlier.
Amazon, Walmart and Specialized are sold out of most models.... "E-bikes kept me out of my car. Whenever I had a reason to go outside — like making a trip to the grocery store or dropping off baked goods at a friend’s — I preferred riding an e-bike".
1. 31 years ago, Beijing crushed dissents with tanks and guns. 31 years later, Beijing is ripping out our democratic aspiration with a tyrannical law. pic.twitter.com/Dx3xTmI5Vo
— Joshua Wong 黃之鋒 😷 (@joshuawongcf) June 4, 2020
Why you might be missing your commute: The daily commute acts as a transitional buffer. It gives you time and space to think about the upcoming work role. “It’s not as easy as switching from one role to the next. When you go into work and you’re still in your home role, you often have conflict between the home and work-related identities”
Home-made disinfectant: Make your own hypochlorite solution. HClO prepared by this method will be mixed with metal ions during the process, so not to be used for medical use. Just for disinfecting the fruits & vegitables or work surfaces. For food disinfection, rinse with water after disinfection. . . . . "Does It Work?" YES!
Chinese espionage in Africa: By requiring African nations to use Chinese contractors to build the infrastructure, Beijing provides itself with a unique opportunity to implant Chinese surveillance technology into the projects from the ground up.. Servers installed by Huawei in the African Union headquarters were daily uploading their content to servers based in Shanghai, China. An inspection of the building—built by the state-owned China State Construction Engineering Corporation—also uncovered listening devices hidden throughout the building. . . . Anti-Chinese sentiment growing in Africa.
Professors around America have been caught selling secret research to the Chinese Communist Regime.
The national media won't cover it, so here's a thread of those who have been caught so far:
Peaceful Rise: Chinese firm copies Gilead's remdesivir, the most promising drug against the new coronavirus. . . . Chinese govt spin: "Coronavirus did not originate in China".
Afghan deal: Paki intelligence may end up the real winner in the Afghan peace deal. “You can’t succeed in Afghanistan independent of us, because we manage, if not actually control, the militant framework in that country.” . . . Pakistan does not want any role for India in Afghanistan
No one aspires for English. People aspire for jobs, economic opportunities. The State deprives people without English of opportunities—competitive exams, higher education, law, even tax filings.
Purging Huawei: US Congress gives small ISPs $1 billion to rip out Huawei, ZTE network gear
Handing over keys to China: When Italy became the only G-7 nation to sign a Belt and Road accord last March, it drew criticism for choosing Beijing at the expense of its western allies. German Foreign Minister warned at the time that if you “think you can do clever deals with the Chinese, you will come down to earth with a bump.” Italy learned that lesson the hard way. Italian exports to China showed a 1% decline while Chinese imports grew. And then came the coronavirus...
Hydrogen Mobility: Coming soon to a bus or truck near you. Possible hedge against oil and metal shortages? .
Real-Time Translation: Google's Interpreter Mode is here, and it will listen and translate up to 44 languages in real time. . . . . Boon for multi-lingual India.
Afraid of their Han overlords: Pakistan halts investigation into sale of 629 Pakistani brides to China. Several women refused to testify because of threats from govt officials
Say no to Halal: Scientists disproved Islamic belief that blood drainage will only be complete if the throat of the animal is slit without stunning it first
If you are a meat eater, have the balls to say no to halal. Support jhatka meat, travel 5 km extra for it. Reject all halal certified products - chips, eye drops, oil. Halal is economy slavery. You came out of 700 years of slavery, don't go back into it.https://t.co/Sc7LrVvE5H
Russian-Made Vikramaditya Was A Hunk Of Junk: With the job halfway done, and having already dropped $974 million, India could not afford to walk away from the deal. In 2010, India agreed to more than double the budget for the carrier to $2.2 billion.
