http://chintan.indiafoundation.in/articles/the-us-presidency-and-india-trump-or-biden/
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Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Fwd: Srishti Sambhrama...The Earth Mother Festival- virtual celebration from October 1st to 4th 2020
starting TODAY
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From: Vijayalakshmi Vijayakumar
Namaskar Dear Kindred Spirits,
Seasons Greetings and Trust all is well with you and your loved ones.
We at Heritage have celebrated the Earth Mother in many ways for a decade now with BNM Institute of Technology to support us on this journey. This year since the pandemic has barred outdoor activities and Center for Soft Power has collaborated with us to celebrate the Earth Mother Virtually with webinars and virtual exhibitions.The Wildlife Trust of India, Artists for Wildlife, The British Deputy High Commission in Bangalore, the International Center of Cultural Studies and many conservationists, artists, photographers, Film makers and scholars from across the world have all come forward to join in this celebration.
We look forward to all of you joining us and also sharing this with your friends and others too. Please post in your groups and let us make this National Wildlife week celebration a resounding success.Let us all remember that the Planet Earth is equally home to wildlife, trees , other animals and a plethora of living and non-living entities as it is to MAN. Let us remember that all else can exist with MAN but man cannot live without the rest of Nature.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2020
is this a damp squib? so trump lost a lot of money, says NYT
are we surprised? he's in real estate, a notoriously cyclical industry.
and, gasp!, he does tax avoidance! say, how much did apple and amazon and microsoft pay in taxes in the last 10 years? and the vatican?
not sure this makes any difference. i thought it was going to be some bombshell, but it basically shows trump is struggling with his businesses, and didn't particularly get any US govt bailouts or support. unlike certain 'too big to fail' banks i could name.
september surprise my foot.
Details: The Times obtained tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due. Here are our takeaways and a timeline of Mr. Trump's finances.
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ayurveda to the rescue in wuhanvirus?
nice writeup, though the consistent use of 'natural' for 'ayurvedic' seems like a cop-out of some sort. is it secularism by other means.
Ayurveda remedies for covid giving good results in clinical trials https://www.indiatvnews.com/amp/news/india/coronavirus-ayurvedic-remedy-clinical-trial-results-652822?__twitter_impression=true
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Fwd: Breaking News: President Trump's tax returns reveal how "Apprentice" fame gave him a $427 million lifeline and a myth that propelled him to the White House.
this is like complaining kim kardashian is famous for... being famous. (and also for her grand tetons).
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Farewell Jaswant Singh Ji
Farewell Shri. Jaswant Singh, former Foreign minister of India 🙏🏽 🙏🏽 🙏🏽
His sad demise after being comatose for 6 long years is a great loss to India.
He was a gentleman soldier, a suave diplomat and a supreme patriot.
I recall his visit to the USA in the aftermath of India’s nuclear tests in May, 1998.
As a young graduate student, I was very excited by the “Shakti” tests and literally had tears of pride reading the news that day.
The Clinton administration had imposed sanctions on India and was menacingly ordering to “cap, rollback and eliminate” India’s nuclear deterrent.
When the sanctions did not work, an effort was made to engage India and Jaswant Singh was visiting America in that backdrop.
I was particularly inspired by an interview of his on prime time American TV during that visit - I believe it was with Judy Woodruff on ABC News. Loved how he stressed the right words and phrases in his sentences for emphasis.
Much time has elapsed since then.. and I remember just 3-4 sentences from that interview.
Judy: “There’s a perception in the West that India is becoming increasingly hegemonist and plays big brother to its neighbors.”
Jaswant Singh: “India does not, *necessarily* have to agree with that perception.”
That assertion of fierce, yet diplomatically stated independence coming from a pagan Hindoo Indian instantly angered the interviewer. She was furious and it was quite visible on her face. Yet, being a thoroughly professional media personality,
she controlled her rage and shrewishly asked her next question summoning all her feminine charm.
Judy: “Isn’t it true that India looks at China, even more than Pack-istaan with some trepidation?”
Jaswant: “India does not look, at *anybody* with trepidation.”
That last assertion blew away the interviewer’s mask of composure and impartiality and her bias fueled by Abrahamic rage was out in the open.
Shri. Jaswant Singh handled the raging White TV interviewer with a great deal of charm and diplomacy - that warmed my heart and left a lasting impression - particularly regarding the value of subtlety and soft spoken ness.
Tribute to Shri. Jaswant Singh Ji by
Bharat Karnad, one of India’s foremost strategic thinkers.
https://bharatkarnad.com/2020/09/27/jaswant-singh-rip/
Footnote: I’ve been reading Mr. Bharat Karnad’s brilliant strategic analyses since 1998-99 and highly respect his opinion, that resonates with my own regarding China, thermonuclear weapon testing, India’s inadequate deterrent etc.
Although this is not the occasion for it, I feel compelled to state that, in my perception at least - Mr. Karnad himself has drifted a bit from India’s Hindu civilizational ethos or was never quite genuinely rooted in it.
Following are a few things I’ve discerned over the years:
He has a blind spot regarding Pakistan;
fails to recognize it as the eternal civilizational enemy that it is and instead longs for some utopia of Pakistan as a friendly buffer state with the Islamic world and India as its security guarantor!
I understand that this was a British construct advanced at partition
that Nehru eagerly subscribed to!
Mr. Karnad apparently subscribes to this thesis too - the small matter of the Pakistani genocide, rape, forcible conversion and religious cleansing of several million Hindus and Sikhs notwithstanding!
Mr. Karnad wants the Indian Army to dismantle armoured strike corps that are focused on Pakistan to assuage Pakistan’s mortal fear of being cut in half by an Indian armoured thrust
and GOI to dole out billions of dollars in economic aid to Pakistan as a sign of goodwill!
Mr. Karnad also has an unfounded obsession with the HF-24 Marut, a fighter aircraft that was built in India in
the 1960’s and designed by Kurt Tank, a German aircraft designer who was brought to India at Nehru’s initiative - as the pinnacle of Nehruvian strategic achievement, whereas in reality, the
HF-24 Marut did not perform well and
was shot out of the sky by the Pakistani Air Force during the 1965 war!
As a logical corollary, Mr. Karnad has a certain adulation for Nehru bordering on blind hero worship.
Mr. Karnad recently wrote that he consumed beef steak while visiting the West for some conference. This is the antithesis of the Hindu ethos and would be considered abhorrent by the vast majority of Indians.
Why deliberately advertise one’s personal culinary preferences when writing about national security?
Regretfully, Mr. Bharat Karnad is one of India’s foremost strategic thinkers - whom I read regularly without fail!
Shri. Jaswant Singh Ji was known to be one of the “moderate”, “modern”, English speaking faces of the BJP that was driven to power by Hindutva.
Yet, why insist on saying “RIP” to a deceased Hindu who was in fact more rooted in Hindutva?
Hindus DO NOT “Rest In Peace”. That is an Abrahamic thing!
When constrained by the English language, one can always say “May he attain Peace”.
Saturday, September 26, 2020
Fwd: Saturday 26, 4 pm Hindi talk on history and philosophy of science, Central University Himachal, Dharmshala
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Date: Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 1:40 PM
Subject: Saturday 26, 4 pm Hindi talk on history and philosophy of science, Central University Himachal, Dharmshala
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Draft flyer attached + abstract
No registration or password is needed. Anyone can join at the google meet or facebook link given in the flyer.
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C. K. Raju, PhD (ISI), TGA Laureate
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Tagore Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study
Book previews
Time: Towards a Consistent Theory
The Eleven Pictures of Time
Cultural Foundations of Mathematics
Euclid and Jesus
Is Science Western in Origin?
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Thursday, September 24, 2020
Quick notes: Gulags in Tibet | Chinese tech...
- Gulags are thriving: China is pushing Tibetans off their lands and turning them into factory workers . 500K Tibetans were forced into labor camps this year and quotas were set for transfers outside the region.
:: China's new plan to tame Tibet.
Himalayan villagers support Indian troops: “We want to help the Indian army to secure their positions immediately. We are carrying supplies to them, doing multiple rounds in a day, to ensure that the army doesn’t face too many problems.”. . . The Tibet factor. - China's tech prowess: Increasingly, China is supplying the kind of sophisticated machinery that German manufacturers once dominated, like high-end tunnel borers and hydraulic valves and pumps used in wind turbines. “It’s only a matter of time until Chinese firms are No. 1,” says Ulrich Ackermann of German Engineering Association.
- State Media: Chinese tech companies going abroad are ‘spreading China’s influence’
- Good riddance: Facebook may leave Europe if Ireland enforces ban on data sharing with US
- Microgreens: Hydroponic Farm Ventures Take Root in Indian Cities
- China’s 40-Year, Billion-Tree Project: Launched in 1978 to protect the north, northwest, and northeast, three regions affected by sandstorms sweeping out of the Gobi Desert, the so-called Three-North Shelter Forest Program aimed to grow 87 million acres of new trees—a forest the size of Germany—across the country’s north by 2050.
- Turning Gray into Green: Meishe River Greenway and Fengxiang Park, Haikou, China
- Pakistan begins phase-3 trial of Chinese vaccine: It was an “honor” for Pakistan to be among the few countries
participating in “the biggest and relatively difficult” phase-3 study of
a vaccine.
Irony: China struggling to convince citizens to take Chinese-made flu shots
Monday, September 21, 2020
Fwd: Varna, Jati and Caste System -- Kalyan Viswanathan (1:57:41)
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Every society has a caste system. There are inequalities in all societies; a few control the major portion of a nation's wealth. So why the hatred against Hindu 'caste' system? Kalyan Viswanathan presents a historical overview on how a non-existent 'caste' was introduced by the colonizers, the Portuguese in 18th century. Colonizers exploited the wealth of and impoverished the nation. The discourse was falsely posited as the Brahmins as the exploiters and the 'lower castes' as the exploited. Such a social organization is NOT validated by historical facts.
Kalyanaraman
https://tinyurl.com/y48p9gbv (Youtube Video: 1:57:41) Varna, Jaati & Caste System Webinar
Saturday, September 19th, 2020Attended the excellent webinar. Here are the excerpts presented in 24 slides.
The kingdom of Portugal and Caste had been jockeying for position and possession of colonial territories along the African coast for more than a century prior to Columbus' 'discovery' of lands in the western seas. On the theory that the Pope was an arbitrator between nations, each kingdom had sought and obtained Papal bulls at various times to bolster its claims, on the grounds that the activities served to spread Christianity. The bull Romanus Pontifex (1455 CE) is an important example of the Papacy's claim to spiritual lordship of the whole world and of its role in regulating relations akong Christian princes and between Christians and 'unbelievers' ('heathens' and 'infidels'). This bull became the basis for Portugal's later claim to lands in the 'new world', a claim which was countered by Castile and the bull Inter caetara in 1492.
Papal bulla of Nicholas V[quote] The bull conferred exclusive trading rights to the Portuguese between Morocco and the Indies with the rights to conquer and convert the inhabitants. A significant concession given by Nicholas in a brief issued to King Alfonso in 1454 extended the rights granted to existing territories to all those that might be taken in the future. Consistent with these broad aims, it allowed the Portuguese "to invade, search out, capture, vanquish, and subdue all Saracens and pagans whatsoever, and other enemies of Christ wheresoever placed, and the kingdoms, dukedoms, principalities, dominions, possessions, and all movable and immovable goods whatsoever held and possessed by them and to reduce their persons to perpetual slavery". However, together with a second reference to some who have already been enslaved, this has been used to suggest that Nicholas sanctioned the purchase of black slaves from "the infidel": "... many Guineamen and other negroes, taken by force, and some by barter of unprohibited articles, or by other lawful contract of purchase, have been ... converted to the Catholic faith, and it is hoped, by the help of divine mercy, that if such progress be continued with them, either those peoples will be converted to the faith or at least the souls of many of them will be gained for Christ."
It is on this basis that it has been argued that collectively the two bulls issued by Nicholas gave the Portuguese the rights to acquire slaves along the African coast by force or trade.[25] By dealing with local African chieftains and Muslim slave traders, the Portuguese sought to become key European players in the lucrative slave trade. The concessions given in them were confirmed by bulls issued by Pope Callixtus III (Inter Caetera quae in 1456), Sixtus IV (Aeterni regis in 1481), and Leo X (1514), and they became the models for subsequent bulls issued by Pope Alexander VI: Eximiae devotionis (3 May 1493), Inter Caetera
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Sunday, September 20, 2020
really, NAR, india has no chance in the supply chain initiative?
who is this author? sounds like one of those "we've already been beaten by china, why not face facts and just roll over and die?" lutyens types.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Modi-s-supply-chain-fantasies-will-not-save-India-s-failing-economy?utm_campaign=RN%20Free%20newsletter&utm_medium=opinion_newsletter_free&utm_source=NAR%20Newsletter&utm_content=article%20link&del_type=6&pub_date=20200919093000&seq_num=6&si=00100764
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shri mehbubani, as usual, shills for china
only this time he's doing india turkey equal equal also.
https://amp.ft.com/content/1948448c-d5c8-4e3d-8e40-a670e69235c8?__twitter_impression=true
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Friday, September 18, 2020
Quick notes: Hybrid warfare | Hollywood's silence...
- Dependent on China: Modi sarkar has no plans to exclude Chinese firms from 5G network infrastructure contracts
Chinese intel: A Chinese company has compiled a database on millions in India and their children and families for the use of the country's intelligence agencies.
Explainer: What is hybrid warfare and how has China used it? - Deploy troops all along LAC: “The deployment pattern will change not just in eastern Ladakh but will be seen all across the LAC for a minimum of two years. . . ”Even while the LAC tension was prevailing, China in June had claimed 3,300 sq km of Bhutanese territory saying it was ‘disputed territory’.
Tibetan ‘sons of snow’, 'ready to fight China, defend India'. - India's Semiconductor Quagmire: “Having a land bank is the least important requirement for setting up a fab. It costs billions of dollars to set up a cutting edge CMOS fab and there are only 2-3 companies in the world having that technology and there is no strong motivation or reason for them to set up their fabs in India. In addition, they can’t just rely only on the local market to fill up the capacity in the fab”.
- How China bought Hollywood's silence: “Instead of us doing business with China and that leading to China becoming more free, what has happened is a place like China has bought our silence with their money.”
- Chinese-made flu shots: China is struggling to convince citizens to receive influenza vaccinations to protect them in the upcoming flu season after years of corruption scandals involving faulty, watered-down, or otherwise useless vaccines
- C-virus effect: With the Work-From-Home culture catching on, many companies are looking at setting up shop in tier-2 cities.
The Zoho experiment: Sridhar Vembu dabbles with village offices as employees move home. - Aparna Rajagopal: A lawyer-turned-organic farmer who has created a business from the dung of native Indian cow breeds
Fwd: India's return to RCEP is in everyone's interests - Nikkei Asian Review
india should demand its pound of flesh. no point creating yet another avenue for china to dump its goods.
this is what i said last year: https://swarajyamag.com/ideas/rcep-a-medium-term-option-india-can-start-preparing-by-declaring-its-intent-to-be-an-economic-power-by-2050
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Demonstrators against RCEP are hit by police water cannon in Chandigarh in May 2019: reactions from farmers and industrialists alike encouraged India not to go ahead with RCEP. © Reuters
India's return to RCEP is in everyone's interests
New Delhi concerned over opening its markets but should recognize strategic gains
Dr. Jagannath Panda is a Research Fellow and Centre Coordinator for East Asia at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi.
When India walked away from the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership in November 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India had "outstanding" concerns with the free trade agreement between the 10 ASEAN nations, China, Japan and others, covering 40% of the world's gross domestic product.
The reality is that India was concerned to expose the weaknesses of its domestic market to superior economies.
Though the hope of India returning to RCEP has not entirely faded, and Vietnam, the current ASEAN chair, wants to act as a "bridge with India," ASEAN members need to figure out the prospects for RCEP in a post-COVID world. For now, the focus on building alternative supply chain networks, and the recovery of regional economic fortunes are gaining momentum.
Anything they can do to bring India back is smart: it is not just in New Delhi's interest to rejoin but that of the whole bloc.
A number of factors shaped India's decision to withdraw from RCEP. While a "lack of concrete assurance" over market access and non-tariff barriers for Indian companies became a prime reason, crippling trade deficits with the majority of RCEP participants, 11 out of 15, came as the stumbling block.
Opposition stemmed from India's domestic constituency, where its manufacturing and services sectors were not competitive enough to protect the national interest. Reactions from farmers and industrialists alike encouraged India not to go ahead with RCEP.
Demonstrators against RCEP are hit by police water cannon in Chandigarh in May 2019: reactions from farmers and industrialists alike encouraged India not to go ahead with RCEP. © Reuters An immediate return is uncertain, then, but neither ASEAN nor its dialogue partners like Japan and Australia have ruled it out. New Delhi's return will now be contingent upon a consensus which India must develop with all relevant partners in the Indo-Pacific, with Japan and Australia leading.
Japan's view that it would like to sign RCEP only if negotiations include India is a strong support for New Delhi's re-entry. Aside from the benefits to its exporters, it cannot afford to let RCEP turn into a China-dominated economic zone. Nor should it overlook a prospective partnership with India to advance a regional free-trading environment which promotes quality infrastructure and connectivity. RCEP featuring both countries would suit their mutual foreign and investment policies too.
New Delhi's return to RCEP would also depend upon the extent to which Australia could garner support in the region in India's favor. It too should want to prevent RCEP from being swayed by Chinese economic power. This is now of the utmost strategic importance given that India and Australia signed a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in June.
Further, Australia's "Indian Economic Strategy to 2035" report promises greater Australian exports to India while enhancing foreign direct investment and people-to-people contact. Such an ambition would obviously remain incomplete if New Delhi does not partake in the regional value-chain that RCEP promises to build.
More importantly, India's return to RCEP would solidify the Australia-India-Japan network in the Indo-Pacific, promoting economic ties to strengthen regional cohesion against Chinese interference. Informal talks to promote a Supply Chain Resilience Initiative (SCRI) is already underway among those three countries, with a forthcoming India-Japan summit likely to discuss the idea at length.
India's return cannot be a one-sided affair. It needs to see how it would benefit too. Though its decision to withdraw was based on its growing confidence as an Indo-Pacific power, it cannot deny the opportunities presented by supply-chain networks, especially considering its ambition of emerging as a $5 trillion economy by 2025.
The pressing conditions created by the coronavirus should encourage India to have a fresh perspective on returning. In a situation where Asian economies are facing the brunt of the pandemic, a regional free trade agreement could be the way to economic recuperation. RCEP is an inclusive model that should not overlook India's interests, nor should India overlook RCEP's benefits.
In truth, even China should want India back. Beijing has been reeling from its trade war with the U.S., as well as taking an aggressive stance toward India over a border dispute, so signing RCEP would show its muscle. With India out of the deal, Beijing's search for new markets has faltered.
India's return to RCEP, then, is both politically practical and economically desirable for all concerned.
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Thursday, September 17, 2020
Bigot attacks Kamala for "being named after Hindu goddess"
I knew instinctively that some ignorant moron would attack Kamala Harris for her partial Hindu heritage, which she has always disowned completely!
Blacks had always resented her as a "daughter of high class street shitters"
(hateful term for Brahmin from India)
and now the BLM radicals feel "cheated" at her nomination as Biden's running mate in the 2020 U.S Presidential election because she is not 100% Black.
When did “Kamala” ever even acknowledge her fractional Hindu heritage? It is tenuous at best - because even her mother was apparently a “progressive” and her maternal grandfather a Communist to boot!
I guess one can never be Black enough or "Woke" enough.
Now, this hateful, ignorant trailer trash corpse worshipper piece of human waste makes a bigoted attack on Kamala for "being named after a Hindu false idol"!
Hindu Americans encounter instances of Hinduphobia routinely in our daily lives. I have several experiences of my own.
But, this almost makes one feel sorry for Kamala - because, while there are many reasons to disagree with her on her ideology, her stated policy positions and even for someone to dislike her personally for the choices she has made in her life - her Hindu first name cannot be a reason to mount hateful attacks.
The idiot may be ignorant that "Kamala" literally means "Lotus" in Sanskrit. So, this hateful attack is like attacking people named after other flowers "Rose", "Lily" or "Jasmine"!
The irony is lost on the moronic worshipper of the FALSE IDOL of the mutilated, rotting corpse of a mythical dead Palestinian Arab illegitimate son of a Roman soldier stuck on a stick! Why not worship a hot dog instead? At least, that's considered "food" fit for human carnivore consumption in the Abrahamic world!
And, yet it is Hinduism that is subjected to a vicious xenophobic attack - when it has absolutely no relation to Kamala Harris!
And, so what even if she or someone else had indeed been named after a Hindu Goddess like Durga, Saraswati or Lakshmi?
African Americans and Latinos have the option to riot on the streets in response to attacks on their communities - both real and perceived.
As a law abiding community and a "model minority", Hindu Americans cannot even consider anything remotely like that.
We will keep our heads down, laugh it off and move on.
Let's see how many "liberals" and African Americans come to support Kamala on this issue.
It would be smart of the Republicans to condemn this ignorant bigotry, but I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for it.
P.S link below.
https://deadstate.org/rick-wiles-kamala-harris-is-cursed-for-being-named-after-a-hindu-false-idol/
my views on the india-china faceoff. this will not end well.
https://rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/p/total-war-chinas-plan-for-india
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Tuesday, September 15, 2020
typical woke leftie drivel about india and modi
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/13/the-guardian-view-on-indias-strongman-in-denial-about-a-covid-crisis?utm_campaign=wp_todays_worldview&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_todayworld
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Monday, September 14, 2020
gordon chang: so what will xi do after the PLA flops in india?
https://www.newsweek.com/chinese-army-flops-india-what-will-xi-do-next-opinion-1531170
my answer: xi will attack: he can't afford to have the illusion about PLA invincibility shattered. not only with conventional weapons, but with biological weapons, infowarfare, drone swarms. we need to be prepared. i don't think he'll go nuclear, though.
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china's military prowess: to be taken with a pinch of salt
... for two reasons: brilliant chinese propaganda and infiltration into the media; and the pentagon's self-serving rationale to exaggerate the chinese threat so they could wangle more funding.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/what-newly-released-pentagon-maps-reveal-about-china-s-growing-military-reach/ar-BB18Zeek?ocid=msedgntp
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'chexit' isn't happening, says nikkei
that's disappointing. maybe there is nuance here: some sectors are indeed exiting, others are hoping to win market share in china. good luck to the latter! we've seen that movie before ("1 billion customers! yeah!")
https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Trade-war/China-exit-limited-to-some-American-sectors-and-not-for-home?utm_campaign=RN%20Free%20newsletter&utm_medium=daily%20newsletter%20free&utm_source=NAR%20Newsletter&utm_content=article%20link&del_type=1&pub_date=20200914123000&seq_num=2&si=00100764
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Sunday, September 13, 2020
Fwd: Edward Luttwak's tweet is a strong contender for the understatement of the year
from my friend V 😂
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does china want war? subtext: not really, but they'll huff and puff
reading between the lines, they want to create the illusion that they want war and are ready for it. in reality, they are a paper tiger (of course, they may beat the odds with biological warfare--and may have already with wuhan coronavirus--and drone warfare).
reminds me of how nehruvian india was quite happy with the illusion of progress, never mind real progress. i wrote this a few years ago.
https://www.rediff.com/news/column/the-great-indian-rope-trick-and-other-illusions-of-progress/20130716.htm
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Quick notes: Tech exports | Bird menace...
- Forget China, can India match Vietnam in exports? Vietnam has been quick to realize the importance of hi-tech exports amounting to 40%, whereas India’s share stands at 9%. In comparison to Vietnam's technology-oriented exports, our exports comprised largely low-tech manufacturing products like mineral fuels, pearls and organic chemicals.
- How Communist China weaponized the waters of Asia: Nine great rivers of Asia descend from the Tibetan plateau. After the Chinese Communist Party occupied Tibet, it has essentially monopolized these waters
- Threat to Rafale: Bird menace due to garbage dump danger to Rafale. IAF has sought immediate implementation of Solid Waste Management scheme to reduce the activity of large birds like black kites in the aerodrome zone of 10 km around Ambala airfield. “This would involve instituting of littering penalty, improvement in garbage collection and setting up of a suitable SWM plant at a suitable distance from the airfield”.
- Rahul Baba's failed attempt to create rift in Army ranks: The defence ministry officials clarified that there is no difference in the quality and quantity of the items served, except that the officers are served different items than those served to the jawans.
- The enemy within: How Indo-China border dispute once split the Communist Party of India.. “A Communist Party statement praised the Chinese for leading the Tibetans from ‘medieval darkness’ and blamed the rebellion on Tibetan ‘serf owners’ backed by Indian reactionaries and Western imperialists”.
- Guru Brahma Guru Vishnu:
- Huawei's Android OS rival: Huawei to shift phones to its own Harmony operating system from 2021
- Sexualization of girls: #CancelNetflix trends on social media after preteen twerking film ‘Cuties’ debuts
If it were this easy to grow your economy, every tin pot dictator would hire a consultant and get rich overnight. In most sensible places, consultants peddling instant cures seen as little better than snake oil hucksters. In India, they advise NITI and the UP government. pic.twitter.com/BFFazgIWq9
— Rupa Subramanya (@rupasubramanya) September 10, 2020
Spare a thought for commanders and soldiers on the ground. Difficult terrain, harsh weather, faced with the enemy barely 300-400 metres away. Its a tinder box out there. One small tactical incident going out hand will have strategic ramifications.
— Nitin A. Gokhale (@nitingokhale) September 8, 2020
Gee, Hindutva folk are a hopeless lot. They misdirect their energy to illusory goals like "unity" or "declaring Hindu Rashtra" -- a verbal gain that increases the quotum of hostility you'll have to deal with but won't yield anything tangible. Instead, abolish the discriminations. https://t.co/A1twp98bgT
— Koenraad Elst (@Koenraad_Elst) September 9, 2020
.@netflix child porn "Cuties" will certainly whet the appetite of pedophiles & help fuel the child sex trafficking trade. 1 in 4 victims of trafficking are children. It happened to my friend's 13 year old daughter. Netflix, you are now complicit. #CancelNetflix pic.twitter.com/GI8KFH7LFq
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) September 12, 2020
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