Global Think tank discussions on India & neighbourhood

[ezsasa]

Natural allies

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

You ask us to chose between Russia and USA,sent aircraft carriers when we were engaged in war,denied us GPS in a war again,wanted a close look on our civil nuclear program,tried to sabotage our cryogenic engine program.

Faaaaar from any natural ally,at best a good partner on on commerce and technology.

If you watch all three debates, what comes out is that American and Indian governments don’t talk to each other as frequently and exhaustively on strategic aspects as we think they do.


More importantly what is coming out from these think tanks discussions is that there aren’t many India experts on American side who can explain India’s concerns to American politicians and pentagon.

 

[ezsasa]

According to this discussion, there are high chances of U.S sanctions on us if we buy S-400.
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U.S. & India: From Estranged Democracies to Natural Allies - Panel 3

 

[binayak95]

This Trump will kill all the work done over the decades by people on both sides. That's the tragedy.

 

[ezsasa]

'Our Time Has Come: How India Is Making its Place in the World' by Alyssa Ayres

 

[ezsasa]

'Our Time Has Come: How India Is Making its Place in the World' by Alyssa Ayres

I always failed to understand why don't Americans policy circles do not know more about india.

i am arriving at the conclusion, it is our own american brown sahebs who are responsible for this.
The american brown sahebs it seems are so ideologically entrenched that they prefer to mix their personal political opinions into the india story. perfect example of such american brown sahebs are sadanand dhume.

This needs to be corrected as soon as possible. there needs to more indian americans in american policy circles who are capable of putting india first rather than libtard ideology first.

 

[ezsasa]

Energy consumption in India africa and china..
Takeaway is that we are doing well in keeping the energy levels low inspite of the growth.
India will probably focus on electric buses, electric share cabs and metros for mass transport rather than individual electric cars.
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EIA's International Energy Outlook 2018

 

[ezsasa]

Governing the Ungovernable: Institutional Reforms for Democratic Governance in Pakistan

 

[no smoking]

i am arriving at the conclusion, it is our own american brown sahebs who are responsible for this.

If your American brown sahebs are american citizens, you can't ask foreign citizens to be responsible for India's international political issue;
If they are holding India citizenship, then you can't expect a foreigner to have great political influence in American political circle.

 

[Enquirer]

I always failed to understand why don't Americans policy circles do not know more about india.

i am arriving at the conclusion, it is our own american brown sahebs who are responsible for this.
The american brown sahebs it seems are so ideologically entrenched that they prefer to mix their personal political opinions into the india story. perfect example of such american brown sahebs are sadanand dhume.

This needs to be corrected as soon as possible. there needs to more indian americans in american policy circles who are capable of putting india first rather than libtard ideology first.

The fundamental issue is that the 'Indian elites' for the last 70 years have craved for recognition/acceptance for their PERSONAL SELVES from the Western world - as such they have always behaved in a way that they felt would endear them to the westerners. Most have no eagerness to know anything about Indian culture and society (which they abhor anyways). They read & learn stuff from the west.The Lutyens elite are the worst of them all!
Indian MPs petitioning US government to deny Modi a visa is probably the lowest form of asserting one's sovereignty.
Things are changing, but India still expects US to assert Pakistan is a terrorist state, but doesn't have the guts to declare it on its own!
Most Indian organization abroad rarely call themselves 'Indian' for the uneasiness of leaving behind Pakistan! They'll subsume Pakistan into the org by calling the organization 'South Asian' blah blah! It's just a 'show off' of their quasi-liberalness that ends up never showcasing Indian culture/ideology or promoting interests!
However tonne of 'regional' organizations flourish....Gujrati, Telugu, Punjabi, Tamil etc...These tend to be more active & vibrant!
Until the Indian elites depend on foreigners to tell them about Indian history & culture that they in turn try to disseminate via academic institutions, India will remain incapable of promoting its own interests.

 

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The United States on Monday upgraded New Delhi to what’s its export control regime terms a Strategic Trade Authorization status STA-1, aimed primarily at increasing American high-tech defence to India

 

[ezsasa]

Usually i post only think tank related videos here in this thread.
But i am finding that there is a certain element of messaging that is coming from sadhguru in this video.
I am pretty sure Kangana's questions were fed to her, and also think she has a screw loose in her head.
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Kangana Ranaut with Sadhguru - In Conversation with the Mystic 2018

 

[ezsasa]

• People who have certain presumptions about RSS should watch this interview.
• I'm glad to see that RSS is playing a think tank role in policy making, was always worried earlier about the disconnect between Govt policy framing and ground reality.
• I'm also glad to see that RSS wants indian muslims to be part of the india story, i guess this explains the whole gau rakshak and lynchings propaganda going on right now.

Side note: Barkha has been such a good spin doctor, if only she loved India more than her bank balance. such a waste of talent.
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RSS : A view to the inside

 

[ezsasa]

The U.S.-India 2+2: A Conversation with Randall G. Schriver

 

[ezsasa]

Release of 'Sardar Patel, Unifier of Modern India' by Shri Ajit Doval, KC

 

[ezsasa]

Outside-the-Box Sino-Indian and Indo-Russian Cooperation on Afghanistan

 

[ezsasa]

Indian parliamentarians should not be sent to such gatherings on foreign soil, unless they are briefed by MEA on talking points. BJP and INC usually manage well, but other parties are useless in this regard.
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India Today: A Conversation With Indian MPs

 

[12arya]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...s-poses-dilemma-for-the-west?CMP=share_btn_tw

China’s pitiless war on Muslim Uighurs poses a dilemma for the west
Europe seeks a ‘golden era’ of trade and investment with a country that is holding a million people in ‘re-education’ camps

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  Police patrol a Uighur neighbourhood in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang. Photograph: Tom Phillips for the Guardian
  China is facing mounting international criticism over its systematic repression of Muslim Uighurs in western Xinjiang province, where an estimated 1 million people have been detained in “re-education” camps and subjected to prolonged physical and psychological abuse.
  
  But Chinese leaders remain defiant, telling the UN and human rights activists last week, in effect, to mind their own business. The stand-off highlights one of the most challenging 21st century dilemmas for western democracies: how to sustain the pretence that an increasingly totalitarian China is a “normal” country with which they can do business.
  
  
  
  
  
  The crackdown on the Uighurs, who make up about 11 million of Xinjiang’s 24 million inhabitants, has intensified since Xi Jinping became Communist party leader in 2012 and president in 2013. Xi claims the campaign is necessary to defeat Islamist terrorism and the “ideological virus” of separatism, despite anecdotal evidence that it is having the opposite effect.
  
  Uighurs say the harsh measures, effectively criminalising an entire ethnic group, are intended to erase their identity, religion, culture and language while assuring the party’s ascendancy. Hundreds of thousands – exact figures are unobtainable – have been sent to the camps, where they are indoctrinated in party dogma, forced to learn Mandarin, and ordered to correct their thinking through self-criticism.
  
  Uncounted thousands more are held in prison, while the remainder of the population is subject to an Orwellian surveillance system comprising cameras placed in Uighur homes and neighbourhoods, networks of local snoopers, biometric data collection, and voice and face recognition technologies. As in Stalin’s Russia, children are encouraged to inform on their parents. Winston Smith of George Orwell’s 1984 would have recognised Xi’s Xinjiang.
  
  A UN human rights panel challenged China last month over “credible reports” that up to 3 million ethnic Uighurs had been subjected to detention or forced re-education. Xinjiang, it was claimed, had become “a massive internment camp”.
  
  Chinese officials responded with a variation on Vladimir Putin’s “Skripal defence”, in which truth is fungible, or fluid. China’s policy towards minorities promoted unity and harmony, said Hu Lianhe, a senior cadre: “There is no such thing as re-education centres.” Not only were reports of repression in Xinjiang incorrect, the events complained of had never actually happened.
  
  When Michelle Bachelet, the newly appointed UN human rights chief and former president of Chile, proposed last week that international monitors be allowed into Xinjiang, Beijing accused her of listening to “one-sided information” and demanded the UN respect China’s sovereignty. In other words, butt out.
  
  Telling the UN to get lost is one thing. Telling the Americans to do so is another. Following pressure from Congress, the US confirmed last week that it was considering sanctions on named Chinese companies and officials, including a Xi loyalist, Chen Quanguo, the party’s Xinjiang chief who transferred to the province after a career of repression in Tibet.
  
  Beijing was taken by surprise. Donald Trump, the US president, after all, has shown scant interest in human rights abuses, and has praised Xi as a strong leader. But this was no sudden change of heart. The threat originated in what is becoming known as Washington’s parallel government, where senior officials routinely bypass the president.
  
  Human Rights Watch added to the chorus of condemnation last week. Its new report on Xinjiang, based on detailed interviews with former detainees and their relatives, concluded that China was daily violating fundamental rights to freedom of expression, religion and privacy and breaking international law on discrimination against minorities. “Those detained have been denied due process rights and suffered torture and other ill-treatment ... The human rights violations in Xinjiang today are of a scope and scale not seen in China since the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution,” the organisation said.
  
  The gathering furore over Xinjiang, and China’s flat rejection of international concerns, is likely to draw attention to other aspects of what Chinese liberals and western analysts say is a broader regression into Mao-era totalitarianism under Xi.
  
  What is happening in Xinjiang mirrors China’s behaviour in Tibet, where Buddhist pro-independence forces have suffered brutal repression since the Chinese occupation began in 1949. The fact they have still not been crushed suggests there is hope for the Uighurs.
  
  Xi’s success in abolishing term limits and establishing himself, de facto, as unelected “paramount leader” for life, his aggressive stance over the South China Sea, Taiwan and Hong Kong, his party purges, and his nationwide curbs on religious freedoms, free speech and independent media all add up to a wider challenge to western double standards. European countries seek a “golden era” of trade, investment and new markets, exemplified by Theresa May’s Beijing visit in February. At the same time, their most cherished beliefs and values, long enshrined in international law, are being shredded by a regime that treats their opinions with disdain.
  
  In this sense, Xinjiang is a test case. So far China has avoided any significant political costs. Its UN security council veto protects it from meaningful censure. But the western democracies are not without leverage and influence, from the use of economic sanctions to political and moral pressure applied across a range of international platforms. If the abuses suffered by Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar require investigation by an international criminal tribunal, as the UN has suggested, then so too does Beijing’s pitiless war on the Uighurs. China’s slide into totalitarianism is accelerating. But who among western leaders will admit that the price of doing business is too high?

 

[ezsasa]

Important discussion...
apparently philanthropic funding is lacking for think tanks in india.
interesting nuggets of information in this discussion..
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"The Role of Think Tanks : Perspectives from the East and the West."

 

[ezsasa]

Agree with most points, since it is from a leftist perspective there are bound to be misinterpretations.
also shows you how deeply brown sahebs help their gora bosses to understand india.
ultimately all this excercise is all about finding the weak points in BJP.....
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The Pundits Are Wrong: Why Ideology Matters in Indian Politics

 

[ezsasa]

Not about India....
But do watch it when you have time....
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Thomas Sowell on the Myths of Economic Inequality