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This is the favored tactic of Indian government when trying to intimidate the press (or politicians). [1] https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/it-raids...
When Europe banned Russian press was that press intimidation?
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“The Hindus are bullies” is too broad of a generalization.
Fair enough, they knew that the minorities would be bullied by Hindus.
I know many Westerners love a good minority story but Islamists aren't that.
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Until the British arrived the subcontinent was a mishmash of thousands of fiefdoms that were at each other's throat. That looks balkanization to me.
You need to read a little more history then! India's history goes much further than that. Read up on The Maurya Empire
This is the favored tactic of Indian government when trying to intimidate the press (or politicians). [1] https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/it-raids...
When Europe banned Russian press was that press intimidation?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fair enough, they knew that the minorities would be bullied by Hindus.
Sorry but that's still an extremely simplistic take, if not to say ignorant. The poor bullied minorities ™ went on to genocide Bangladeshis in East Pakistan for wanting independence and raped hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi women, only a few years after Pakistan itself had seceded. I know many Westerners love a good minority story but Islamists aren't that.
The point isn’t that one side is inherently better the other, the point is that people feared minorities wouldn’t fare well in a United India due to longstanding communal issues.
Bangladesh war for independence is just supporting that point, as is RSS/Hindutva, etc.
I mean, India has a great thing going. Geopolitically, it's exempt from bans on trading with Russia, so it can play both sides and get away with it. It has build up a vast services industry as the "back office of the world", a major driver of economic prosperity. It's likely the main beneficiary of re-shoring manufacturing out of China.
In this position, quite literally the dumbest thing you can do is to attract international attention by attacking a western institute like the BBC.
You weaken your position in geopolitics. You scare investors. You don't realize how unlike manufacturing, services are extremely easy to move to another country. And why even start manufacturing in this regime, when plenty of saner countries are nearby?
You want to gamble with all of that, for what? A BBC report that does nothing. Give it no attention and everything stays exactly the same.
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Hit them where it hurts: Ban all family members of anybody in Indian government from entering the US for any reason. Not for school, nor a job, nor even a short vacation to visit other family members. Limit this ban to Indian politicians and their family members; most Indians should be unaffected.
Step 1 on the (very short) path to making the US dollar permanently lose its influence. Unless India starts invading Pakistan for conquest or population destruction, sanctions even on Indian politicians and their families go way too far (not to mention some of those sanctioned people would likely be top business leaders as well). The US is already testing its limits trying to go against Russia and China simultaneousl…
No it wouldn't. India is still tiny economically compared to the US and the global economy. They have a $3.x trillion economy; the US is seven to eight times larger. Maybe in another 25-30 years they'll get to a $10t economy (in today's USD).
> The US is already testing its limits trying to go against Russia and China simultaneously
The US isn't testing its limits at all re Russia. We're not even breaking a sweat yet (we're hardly making an effort at industrial scaling just for military purposes for example). We're using our vast logistic machine to ship Ukraine weapons to defend itself, and they're doing most of the hard work. The US is using a few single digit percent beyond its normal pace for the Russia vs Ukraine war. We're not mass producing war machines just for that purpose for example; so far it's largely logistics/shipping/intel and modestly boosting a few types of ammo that Ukraine particularly needs. The US also has plenty of help from its NATO (and other) allies on sanctions and weaponry, which makes it that much easier on the US (not having to go it alone).
Russia is just that mediocre.
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It is interesting that it took Western media to blow the whistle. You could write books about everything that is wrong with my country (many people do) but independent journalism is sacrosanct.
It's identical to the Western response to the Iranian government murdering many thousands of their people (who were protesting) prior to the pandemic. Versus the response to the Khashoggi murder by the Saudis. Both reprehensible regimes, the media treated one death as being particularly special. Going by the massive coverage of Khashoggi, you'd get the impression thousands of murders is less important than one, and y…
Schadenfreude: it seems India are ready to dig themselves into a hole. This should benefit the West on the long run.