why is nikkei asia so hostile to india?

maybe i am deluding myself that japan is india's all-weather friend.

nikkei asia's coverage of india is not very positive. maybe they have been infected by their financialpravda subsidiary.

nakayama-san, maybe you have heard of zaibatsu in your home country? puleeeez, hindenburg was a hatchet job. 

semiconductor (ok at least memory chip) glut?

sic transit gloria mundi! hope india's fabs will be ready in time for the next upswing

Quick notes: Brand-free growth | Stolen treasures...

• India's Brand-free Economic Growth: While it is great that India is now making a lot of mobile phones for export, none of these carry an Indian brand name. The Chinese and Koreans, on the other hand, have spawned a half-dozen brands that dominate global markets.
  
  The Modi government's manufacturing push is very good and necessary, but basically it is pushing Indian manufacturing in the same direction as our software (services) industry: Outsourcing -- India's fully (global) brand-free "strategy".



• China could dominate the next big advance in batteries. In two years, China will have nearly 95 percent of the world's capacity to make sodium batteries.
  
  500 watt-hours per kilogram! CATL announces very energy-dense "condensed battery" for passenger aircraft. It’s likely a semi-solid state battery, an emerging technology with the potential to address issues that have held back the mass commercialization of solid state batteries.
  
  China challenging incumbent automakers: The legacy industry’s greatest assets are not worth as much as in the past... China’s car buyers have fallen out of love with foreign brands. Home teams are routing MNC competitors that had dominated China’s auto market.
  
  How China plans to get in on US clean energy subsidies: Chinese companies are opening up manufacturing plants in the US and embedding themselves ever more deeply into the supply chains of major critical minerals. The influx of Chinese clean energy manufacturing projects raises the question of whether US industrial policy efforts to revitalize American manufacturing risk being hijacked by its chief rival.
  
  



• India Pride Project : The sleuths bringing back India’s stolen treasures.
  
  The narrative "they" often sell is that these precious antiquities deserve to enjoy global attention while staying safe in secured museums. A recent New York Times article summed up the colonial thinking that continues around restitution, suggesting that "in America, critics of the surge in returns worry that museum collections built over time by scholars and imbued by a sense of context are being randomly depleted. Should US audiences, they ask, be deprived access to iconic objects that they suggest belong, not to individual nations, but to humankind?".
  
  The fundamental flaw in this argument is that many of these artefacts are not art pieces to be "enjoyed" but sacred objects cherished and worshiped through generations before they are snatched away.
  



• Modi sarkar's narrow perspective: The dangers of allowing foreign universities to set up campuses in India.



• Unemployable: India's worthless degrees undercut world's fastest-growing major economy.



• India's migrant millions: Caught between jobless villages and city hazards. This internal migration is bound to intensify as India becomes the world's most populous nation, throwing up enormous challenges for the government to absorb its army of young unemployed.



• How to pronounce ZHA in Malayalam:




• US Is Getting ‘Lonely’: Deepening links between the Middle East and Russia and China are a huge challenge for the United States. “If the Bretton Woods system is not delivering strongly around the world, there are going to be serious challenges.”



• Saudi Arabia's cricket league: What will happen to the $8.4 billion IPL?

I identify myself as CJI

• "There already is a contempt case against me, but since I identify myself as a judge, I dismiss it."

To confuse sex with gender is astounding for a Chief Justice. A biological man is one who possesses XY chromosomes and produces sperm. He can still identify himself as a woman.

There already is a Contempt case against me, but since I identify myself as a judge, I dismiss it. pic.twitter.com/tIZe6dZZnM

— Anand Ranganathan (@ARanganathan72) April 18, 2023




• Milord in a hurry: Will he amend Muslim Personal Law?

Can I get tax benefits for identifying myself as a woman?

Can I get additional tax benefits for being a woman entrepreneur?

Can I contest panchayat elections on seats reserved for women?

Can I marry a person identifying himself as a man, later divorce him & ask for alimony?

— Incognito (@Incognito_qfs) April 18, 2023




• Soros' man? A bigger concern is his lack of autonomy from what Harvard downloads into him.

Remote controlled puppet? Regardless of whether he is right or wrong, a bigger concern is his lack of autonomy from what Harvard downloads into him. pic.twitter.com/WloKbjxBkq

— Rajiv Malhotra (@RajivMessage) April 18, 2023

you're wrong, nikkei. gurkaniya timurids or brits get credit

why stop at the congress? i believe the reason india's tiger population increased is because of the gurkaniya timurids or brits, who kindly hunted or shot so many of them that the few survivors (you see, darwin's "survival of the fittest") became super-tigers. 

eastern europeans are ignoring the EU; india should ignore WTO

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-the-eu-trying-to-alienate-eastern-europe/

in india's case, there's a WTO panel scolding india about its cellphone exports. we should just ignore it. just like china ignored the Law of The Sea ruling against it (and nothing happened). https://twitter.com/DivaJain2/status/1648514130192781313?s=20

see also

Ep. 101: Will there be a US-China condominium that divides up the world?

An arrangement whereby they will arrive at a compromise, without direct conflict between them. They will carve out zones of control, spheres of influence, and create an armed truce

of course, india will be screwed, and japan, and especially taiwan. but this is what happens when you're dancing with elephants. 

political violence in japan? again?

deplorable, especially after abe shinzo-san was assassinated.

but then political violence in japan is not unheard of. i remember mishima yukio, the celebrated author, committing ritual seppukku after he and comrades attacked and captured a government office (a post office if i remember right).

El Nino 2023: why we need to worry about state capacity

because the vile british State let this escalate into massive famine. 

my youtube video on this topic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paW05vYhoWQ

is this deepstate hinting that it is going to dump ukraine?

richard haass is a consummate insider. this is from 'foreign affairs' which is also an inside entity.

i hate to tell you i told you so, but i did tell you so: see my video at https://youtu.be/Ur9EJs3HXrg

vietnam doing surprisingly poorly: is it the china effect?

implications for india too as a resurgent china may be cornering exports

"Indian-Americans" Campaign for Caste Laws in California

 California Congresswoman Aisha Wahab tweets the following:

https://twitter.com/aishabbwahab/status/1646149362681106433

Met a large coalition of Indian Americans in Fremont wanting to discuss SB403! We heard their thoughts, concerns, and answered questions. I’m meeting with more and more individuals on this historic bill. SB403 will prohibit the discrimination based on caste. pic.twitter.com/UXhWQ5YTZz

— Aisha Wahab 愛莎華 (@aishabbwahab) April 12, 2023

gold > sensex. not good.

india's business environment has improved: EIU

though not as much as vietnam's

is the ukraine war drawing to a close?

ok, we can but hope.

my video on this possibility. (made with mmhmm).

https://youtu.be/Ur9EJs3HXrg

subscribe to this channel. 

Weather Forecast: Raining Castes and Dogs

Cisco Caste Discrimination - 5 Things That Show How California State Dept CRD Tried to Brazen It Out

bangladesh's vizhinjam

the strategic container port at vizhinjam, thiruvananthapuram, is one of india's best bets to tap into the indian ocean sea lane traffic.

apparently this port for bangladesh also has potential.

why is allopathy like chatGPT? both are statistical and thus not always reliable

https://youtu.be/BdJf9G1MMeA

please subscribe to my new youtube channel.

two things stand out: 

1. correlation not being causation is a fundamental problem for generative AI, as it is for allopathy

2. indian knowledge simply doesn't exist for western AIs

here's a link to the written article, too. 

https://rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/p/ep-98-medicine-and-generative-ai?sd=pf 

el nino is back, and we're screwed. no rain.

putting 2+2 together: ukraine war is about to end?

1. bakhmut is just about fallen

2. ukraine has indicated readiness to negotiate (with some pro forma if then else but on crimea)

3. this leak is a way of washing their hands of the matter and backpedaling, saying "we knew all along it was hopeless"

sounds a lot like geopolitics and relations with big powers

yeah, you as a small player end up married to a big guy you can't stand, but there's no easy escape

California State Withdraws Its Caste Discrimination Lawsuit Against Cisco

the EU is really taking it on the chin with inflation

apple's megalomania and paranoia on display

my first two computers were macs, but i soured on their walled garden strategy.

i haven't owned a single apple product in years. 

they are apple. they can do this. but should they?

a serious breach that the US has to worry about

BBC Hollers as Twitter labels It “Government-Funded Media”

This may be one of the few ways the world's richest man can have more fun than from flying rockets.

semitics of the world unite; pagans as usual are outside

the roots of anti-india and anti-hindu feelings in the west go deep.

their culture is judeo-christian-(and sort of)-muslim. people of the book.

here's an example from the wsj.

hey, we too had a festival: ram navami; and another: hanuman jayanti; and we had yugadi

and will have vishu shortly. none of these penetrate the thick miasma of semitism among whites.

symbol of the decline of the west: gender as shibboleth

Quick notes: Petro-yuan | English fines...

• Petrodollar Dusk, Petroyuan Dawn: Iran, Venezuela, Russia and now Saudi Arabia shifting towards Petro-yuan. For nearly 50 years, the Saudis had insisted on payments with US dollars. But that all changed recently. “The Saudi move could chip away at the supremacy of the US dollar in the international financial system, which Washington has relied on for decades to print Treasury bills it uses to finance its budget deficit.”




• India Pushes Trade in Local Currency : Malaysia will be a test case that other countries will watch to decide whether trading in the Indian currency is feasible. India has already established a rupee-ruble payment mechanism with Moscow, which experts say is serving as a template for other countries. Last July, banks from 18 countries set up rupee accounts in Indian banks. They include Mauritius, Kenya, Tanzania, Israel, Germany, Oman and Singapore.



• Italy introduces legislation to stop invasion of English language: Public officials could face fines of up to $110K for using foreign words in official communications.. France also has a language watchdog – the Académie Française — in which it catalogs and fight against foreign words, especially English ones, creeping into everyday language.

Countries oppose/ban the use of foreign language and even the foreign vocabulary in official communications to preserve their culture since language and culture are inseparable and go together. Invaders/colonisers impose their language for the same reason! https://t.co/YUabTzMdF3

— चमू कृष्णशास्त्री Chamu KrishnaShastry (@ChamuKShastry) April 2, 2023




• Brown is beautiful: India's 'brown beauty' makeup influencers go global




• New star in AI: Google says its AI chip is up to 1.7x faster and 1.9x more power-efficient than Nvidia A100 chip.



• Generative AI: Who will be the ultimate financial winners?

Great clip from @chamath describing who the ultimate financial winners may be from the generative AI revolution

pic.twitter.com/PieaotllOI

— Science Is Strategic (@scienceisstrat1) March 30, 2023




• Ustad Imrat Khan: Raag Gorakh Kalyan, drut

expelling legislators is not all that unusual, is it? here's tennessee

so why is raoul so special?

and even in india somnath chatterjee, commie speaker, iirc expelled 

BJP members of the lok sabha with what i remember was malice aforethought.

biden is pissing off allies

https://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2023/04/w-r-mead-in-wsj-biden-is-pissing-off.html

w r mead in WSJ: biden is pissing off allies with 'democracy' fixation

like 'gandhi' has become a dubious word, so is 'democracy' becoming one.

AI is eating hollywood: WSJ

india should rewrite its prolix constitution when israel writes its own

so chinese are making pretty good software these days

where are the scary indian software products?

el nino effect? waterlogged california, water-starved kerala

in kerala, summer rains have failed so far, and rivers and streams are drying up; and there is oppressive heat. 

hostage diplomacy; where are the pictures of the nehru-liaqat pact victims?

at least the americans have names.

what about the hindus of pakistan held hostage by the nehru-liaqat pact? till today.

every hindu being raped, abducted, forced to convert, murdered every day is an 

unmourned victim of that. thank you, yet again, jawhalal.

Russia and Iran Join Forces with India

The Forever War: Data-Driven Military Conscription vs Conflict Exhaustion

Watch the whole thing -- but pay close attention @ 8:17

Data-driven military conscription? Is it the future of warfare? 

What if China uses such a weapon against us?

come to india, folks!

musk wants twitter to be your financial entity worth $250 billion

well, he has dreamed some other impossible dreams before. 

mohd bin salman to joe biden: tough!

i suspect he'll move towards the petro-yuan too. bad news for the US $. 

biden shouldn't have called him a murderer. 

Quick notes: Campa cola | Gurtej Sandhu...

• Cola battle: Ambani challenging Pepsi, Coke in major Indian market... To relaunch iconic 1970s Indian soda that once rivaled Coca-Cola



• Dollar dumped: China and Brazil to settle trade in yuan, real.
  - India, Malaysia can now trade in Indian Rupee.



• Goldman Sachs: AI could replace equivalent of 300 million jobs.. Uberization and lower wages to ensue.



• Gurtej Sandhu: How America's top inventor (over 1300 patents) gives back to students



• Design Automation: Huawei makes breakthroughs in design tools for 14nm chips. . Chiplet design: China develops domestic chiplet interface. . . . Japan officially restricts sales of chipmaking equipment to China



• Nature of the Self: You are as old as time itself.




• Socializing without alcohol: Workplace drinking culture is fading fast. “Co-workers are second only to friends as the main source of pressure to drink.”



• Precious water: Intel and TSMC face a new kind of competition. This time, it’s over water.



• Project Tiger: "There is the enormous pressure of the economic transformation of India – the building of highways, roads and mines that are cutting off access to what once used to be wildlife corridors along which tigers moved unhindered".



• Himalayas: The climate time bomb threatening India. in addition to being located in a seismic zone, Uttarakhand is threatened by accelerated melting of its glaciers.



• Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan: Dev Maheshwar Mahadev | Raag Bhupali




• Unreadable diarrhea: Their propaganda isn’t even interesting

  The real tragedy of @NYTimes is that their propaganda isn’t even interesting

  — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 2, 2023

ISRO's RLV-LEX Mission Successfully Demonstrates Autonomous Landing

judiciary in india and israel; pax americana coming to an end?

https://youtu.be/UOsZMUSkpp4

or

https://rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/p/ep-97-judiciary-problems-as-a-symptom