India US Relations

[shashankk]

White House defends Joe Biden's statement calling India, China, Russia & Japan 'xenophobic'

I guess there is no option other than defending statement of dementia patient and pedophile who uttered it.

 

[Hari Sud]

The Wall Street paper on “Biden’s Fraught Candidacy Faces Twin Threats at Home and Abroad”

https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/biden-2024-election-israel-hamas-protests-1969c0f3?mod=hp_lead_pos7

 

[Cheepek]

Very interesting, it looks like West views R&AW as a serious challenger, atleast in future.

How Five Eyes Bloc is trying to defang India’s counter-terror & intel apparatus

Five Eyes intelligence has decided to take on Indian intelligence for getting too big for its boots and are leaking source intelligence to leftist media.

www.hindustantimes.com

Testament of how much we've grown and how much potential we have!

 

[Hari Sud]

Let us Cheer the current unrest in America who lectures on Human Rights and Democracy to others

Is it India not glad that Biden’s America is facing civil unrest on the scale which other democracies face which are mostly funded by American interests. About 2100 have been arrested. The unrest is a challenge to Biden Administration which have been riding high of starting war in Ukraine on a pretext of Ukraine joining NATO.

This unrest had a beginning in Israeli invasion of Gaza after Gaza Muslim HAMAS murdered 1300 civilians and took 230 as hostages on October 7th.

First the Democratic Party encouraged anti-Israeli protests knowing fully well that this Israeli-HAMAS fight was not started by Israel. Instead of US coming solidly behind Israel to curb and punish the perpetrators of crimes on civilians, they the U.S. provided support via encouraging all the Muslim in the U.S. university campuses to join the protests. They were working on Vote Bank for Democrats. Interestingly, publishing media reports also stayed somewhat neutral. This policy had a partial success abroad but failed internally.

Now Muslim students in U.S. encouraged by left leaning lobby in the student body and now as per reports joined by faculty have mounted a challenge at Biden and his Democratic Party cohorts who initially co-sponsored anti Israeli demonstrations. Now police in riot gear and carrying military style long guns have come out in force to dismantle the student barricades where the students were demonstrating for maximum publicity.

it is replay of 1968-69 anti war demonstration where the students and left oriented anti Vietnam war demonstrators clashed with police resulting in four dead at Kent State University.

For an election year, this is bad for the Biden Administration and the Democrats.

These demonstrations are not going away since more than 2000 have been arrested and presence of heavily armed men will scare them.

Thank God, it is happening in America which lectures the world on Human Rights and Democratic values. Even the vocal American media is somewhat silent or unable to determine who is right and who is wrong. They are overlooking the deep divides in American society but continue to highlight failing military effort in Ukraine.

Let us cheer for Anti American demonstrators in America, no matter what the cause is? Let us cheer them for mounting a challenge to America itself as I said above that they are lecturing the world on human rights and Democracy etc. but are failing at home.

Over 2,100 arrests made in pro-Palestinian protests on US campuses, non-students make up majority

Pro-Palestinian protestors at UCLA received unexpected support this week. Faculty members, alerted by a student call for help, volunteered to join the protest. "Students expressed feeling unsafe," said Graeme Blair, a political science professor, "and they wanted our assistance in improving the...

www.wionews.com

 

[LETHALFORCE]

Very interesting, it looks like West views R&AW as a serious challenger, atleast in future.

How Five Eyes Bloc is trying to defang India’s counter-terror & intel apparatus

Five Eyes intelligence has decided to take on Indian intelligence for getting too big for its boots and are leaking source intelligence to leftist media.

www.hindustantimes.com

Testament of how much we've grown and how much potential we have!

better to get the real picture than the fake ego satisfying statements hiding deception

 

[hurrians]

EU g7 is weaponising diamond and carbon tax to hit India.

MSN

Both this and sishir Gupta article are similar to what har sud ji writes.

Anyway certification should be done in India itself or as a compromise 50/50

 

[ezsasa]

EU g7 is weaponising diamond and carbon tax to hit India.

MSN

Both this and sishir Gupta article are similar to what har sud ji writes.

Anyway certification should be done in India itself or as a compromise 50/50

and the green steel that they want to impose tariffs on, it's green only if their I.Ps are used.
ultimately after the initial disruption to supply chain cycle gets stabilised, the extra cost is transferred to eu customers anyways.
let's see how this plays out...
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Xi's trip to Europe may lay bare West's divisions over China strategy

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/xis-trip-europe-may-lay-bare-wests-divisions-over-china-strategy-2024-05-02/

 

[Jimih]

Buddha has gone full retard! His braincells have stopped functioning altogether.

 

[shade]

Why India Must Learn To Suck It Up With Uncle Sam For 10 More Years

The best strategy for India is to not confront the US as often as possible, and wait till we become a $10 trillion economy, when Uncle Sam will have little room to make a full-time enemy out of us.

swarajyamag.com

Article with full "Don't make China upset" vibes, except it is not China this time.

 

[hurrians]

and the green steel that they want to impose tariffs on, it's green only if their I.Ps are used.
ultimately after the initial disruption to supply chain cycle gets stabilised, the extra cost is transferred to eu customers anyways.
let's see how this plays out...
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Xi's trip to Europe may lay bare West's divisions over China strategy

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/xis-trip-europe-may-lay-bare-wests-divisions-over-china-strategy-2024-05-02/

Baniya wins, cost will be passed on , but the capex required will be huge , even domestic prices will be effected.

Diamonds ,as most are exported anyway won't have much affect.

 

[ezsasa]

Baniya wins, cost will be passed on , but the capex required will be huge , even domestic prices will be effected.

India developing taxonomy for green steel amid global ambiguity: Neha Verma,

Read more at:
https://energy.economictimes.indiat...ha-verma-director-ministry-of-steel/104147057

 

[Crazywithmath]

and the green steel that they want to impose tariffs on, it's green only if their I.Ps are used.
ultimately after the initial disruption to supply chain cycle gets stabilised, the extra cost is transferred to eu customers anyways.
let's see how this plays out...
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Xi's trip to Europe may lay bare West's divisions over China strategy

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/xis-trip-europe-may-lay-bare-wests-divisions-over-china-strategy-2024-05-02/

It is not black and white. Imposing carbon taxes would result in costlier inputs that would in turn render their industry uncompetitive (the proposed tariffs are to be applied on 6 polluting sectors only; the secondary/tertiary sectors are exempt). And I am not even getting into the outcome (almost an inevitability) where the non EU nations retaliate with tit-for-tat duties. The likes of Brazil, South Africa, prc, India and ASEAN have threatened already - that's a massive bloc; larger than the EU itself.

Truth be told, their carbon taxes are aimed at prc (mostly) as of now; the rest are just collateral damages. Are they willing to kiss the chinese market goodbye? And as the above cited article indicates, there is still no consensus over their china strategy.

We are far from getting done here is all I would say.

 

[shade]

It is not black and white. Imposing carbon taxes would result in costlier inputs that would in turn render their industry uncompetitive (the proposed tariffs are to be applied on 6 polluting sectors only; the secondary/tertiary sectors are exempt). And I am not even getting into the outcome (almost an inevitability) where the non EU nations retaliate with tit-for-tat duties. The likes of Brazil, South Africa, prc, India and ASEAN have threatened already - that's a massive bloc; larger than the EU itself.

Truth be told, their carbon taxes are aimed at prc (mostly) as of now; the rest are just collateral damages. Are they willing to kiss the chinese market goodbye? And as the above cited article indicates, there is still no consensus over their china strategy.

We are far from getting done here is all I would say.

It's aimed at India too.
In terms of policy we are clubbed with Russia and China

 

[Crazywithmath]

It's aimed at India too.
In terms of policy we are clubbed with Russia and China

Not yet. Their CBAM regime will have very very minimal impact on our Aluminium sector. Only iron ore and steel will face some impact but there are exporters who would be facing even bigger setbacks (chinkus, Brazil etc). And costly steel renders their secondary/tertiary products uncompetitive.

 

[Anupu]

Why India Must Learn To Suck It Up With Uncle Sam For 10 More Years

The best strategy for India is to not confront the US as often as possible, and wait till we become a $10 trillion economy, when Uncle Sam will have little room to make a full-time enemy out of us.

swarajyamag.com

Article with full "Don't make China upset" vibes, except it is not China this time.

and we don’t make china upset as well. One thing is for sure. Indian growth can’t be export led. we need to make sure our exports are diverse and a smaller portion of our total gdp. Along with that we need to somehow take a lead on technology. A lot of rethinking is required.

 

[shade]

and we don’t make china upset as well. One thing is for sure. Indian growth can’t be export led. we need to make sure our exports are diverse and a smaller portion of our total gdp. Along with that we need to somehow take a lead on technology. A lot of rethinking is required.

It won't be, don't worry, for manufacturing, a one-party state ruling over 1 billion labourers is a once in a blue moon occurence that has now passed.

We today are competing with ASEAN incumbents like Thighland and Malaysia, Vietnam, Mexico and Brazil for those manufacturing investments apart from the big bad China.

Our economy is already dependent on (((services))) export.

 

[RocketMan]

 

[Hari Sud]

Who benefits from Current War in Ukraine

The only beneficiary of this war with US sinking in $60 billion now and $40 billion in previous two years, is the military - industrial complex in US. It is them, that all the money is handed over to make guns and ammunition to be used Ukraine. They are showing huge profits. It is unlikely that benefits will flow elsewhere. Hence the beneficiaries are American companies.

The losers are the Ukrainian people who have lost 200,000 people and turned their country into a Stone Age landscape. Also losers are the Russians living in the Eastern part of Russia who are under intense bombing campaign. The Russian economy under intense pressure of sanctions will survive as they have oil to export.

If the war continues as the American wish it to continue then it will impact the American election due in November. If the other candidate wins and eject the Democrats, then war will come to an end in some sort of an armistice. That will not benefit the Americans but impact the other European countries whose economies are under stress due to war.
And no war, no fight situation does not benefit anybody.

Hence, what did the Americans achieve?

Truthfully, nothing. Rather, their superpower prestige will be considerably reduced. Chinese will gain the most. They were searching for opportunities like this to dominate or if not dominate then reduce American influence. Still economically, they may not come ahead as China is dependent on exports and America is their biggest customer, yet they will gain influence, which is worth more than the economics.

Cheers, America. You lost a lot of prestige and money in the Ukraine war and gained nothing.

 

[shade]

Who benefits from Current War in Ukraine

The only beneficiary of this war with US sinking in $60 billion now and $40 billion in previous two years, is the military - industrial complex in US. It is them, that all the money is handed over to make guns and ammunition to be used Ukraine. They are showing huge profits. It is unlikely that benefits will flow elsewhere. Hence the beneficiaries are American companies.

The losers are the Ukrainian people who have lost 200,000 people and turned their country into a Stone Age landscape. Also losers are the Russians living in the Eastern part of Russia who are under intense bombing campaign. The Russian economy under intense pressure of sanctions will survive as they have oil to export.

If the war continues as the American wish it to continue then it will impact the American election due in November. If the other candidate wins and eject the Democrats, then war will come to an end in some sort of an armistice. That will not benefit the Americans but impact the other European countries whose economies are under stress due to war.
And no war, no fight situation does not benefit anybody.

Hence, what did the Americans achieve?

Truthfully, nothing. Rather, their superpower prestige will be considerably reduced. Chinese will gain the most. They were searching for opportunities like this to dominate or if not dominate then reduce American influence. Still economically, they may not come ahead as China is dependent on exports and America is their biggest customer, yet they will gain influence, which is worth more than the economics.

Cheers, America. You lost a lot of prestige and money in the Ukraine war and gained nothing.

Chinkus are also a winner, they get Russian natural resources for dirt cheap.

 

[Azaad]