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Post by teleforce »

screye wrote: post #87
dash2 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very interesting comment but I think the bit about Kashmir is naïve. Kashmir doesn’t want to reintegrate (“re”?) and India’s move here has been much like China’s in Hong Kong - a deliberate, authoritarian takeover.

Yes and No. Kashmir is the most important strategic post bordering 3 nuclear nations at war-ish with each other. It is landlocked, with each country controlling different parts of it, and 2 claiming it in entirety. J&K is a 3 part territory, of which 99%+ of Leh, Ladakh and Jammu want to be a part of India. So, if Kashmir was to be independent, it would be tiny, vulnerable and entirely dependent on neighboring states…

If you want to state the fact or try to be biased as it gets, at least try to provide your reference [1].

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2017/11/forgotten-massacr...

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Post by Igelau »

lopmotr wrote: post #195
vkou wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The founding fathers were so concerned about this, that the US was also founded as a representative democracy, where the only people whose opinions counted were wealthy white landowning men. Let's not look at a model where less than 2% of the population could vote as some brilliant stroke of foresight. It was created by aristocrats for aristocrats. Mind you, this post does not advocate for direct democracy, but the o…

It's still true that only about 2% of people can vote in America today. That's because it's a right restricted to members of the privileged citizen class. You might say that foreigners shouldn't vote because it doesn't affect them, but it does. America has a lot of influence over other countries whose citizens are as helpless as blacks and women back then.

Foreign interference isn't a bug– it's a feature!

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Post by powerapple »

throwaway4good wrote: post #34
obmelvin wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps, if you feel strongly you could express your own opposition rather than make very vague statements alluding to...I have no idea, to be honest.

I am not from India - so it doesn't matter what I think. I was asking a question. I notice from my own country that the power around the sitting government has been strengthened over the COVID-pandemic and the opposition is very weak. I can only imagine how things would centralise further had my country also been under the threat of war.

That's rare. Typically you would think bad situations are good cards for oppositions. Pandemic, not standing up strongly against 'enemy', are good cards for playing the nationalism game. Unless the sitting government have handled the situation very well, the opposition will have something to say about it and people would agree with them.

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Post by jbgud »

nfc_ wrote: post #206
ideals wrote: post #54

So far in the news (that I consume) I only see countries being agressive towards Chinese software companies. I can't imagine this goes on and continues escalating long before China reacts strongly. What is China's response going to look like? I feel uneasy that their response is going to light the fire even more.

India heavily depends on software consulting and BPO exports for its foreign currency (over 100 billion usd per year). If China really wants to retaliate, it can sanction the WITCH companies and force any multinational who wants to be in China to not use them. This will also benefit competitors in other developing countries like Phillipines or Pakistan. India is playing with fire here. Especially dropping out of RCEP…

India should act in interest of India. Playing nice with the aggressor makes them more aggressive - it has been tried for past 60 years.

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Post by suifbwish »

dielll wrote: post #241
jeswin wrote: post #31

What I wish India would do is this: force Chinese phone companies to ship stock Android and full source code. They sell hundreds of millions of phones in India and will have to find middle ground, and the outcome will be good for everyone.

Google neither uses stock Android on Pixel phone nor release full source code of pixel phones, so why should only the Chinese be forced to do that? Before anyone downvotes or questions if Pixel uses Stock Android, ask yourself why Pixels have Pixel exclusive features not available in AOSP or not used by Android 1 phones like Nokia

Because google isn’t a fascist regime with a military

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Post by screye »

teleforce wrote: post #251
screye wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes and No. Kashmir is the most important strategic post bordering 3 nuclear nations at war-ish with each other. It is landlocked, with each country controlling different parts of it, and 2 claiming it in entirety. J&K is a 3 part territory, of which 99%+ of Leh, Ladakh and Jammu want to be a part of India. So, if Kashmir was to be independent, it would be tiny, vulnerable and entirely dependent on neighboring states…

If you want to state the fact or try to be biased as it gets, at least try to provide your reference [1]. https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2017/11/forgotten-massacr...

Thanks for posting unbiased news from non-state funded Aljazeera. It is great that they have so many sources too. A whole '0' sources.

There are at least a dozen conflicting historian accounts on what and how things went down in the India-Pakistan partition.

I am sure my recollection of it isn't the most faithful to the yet unknown truth, but I am certain in it being more reliable than AlJazeera of all media outlets.

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Post by fomine3 »

suifbwish wrote: post #255
dielll wrote: post #241

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google neither uses stock Android on Pixel phone nor release full source code of pixel phones, so why should only the Chinese be forced to do that? Before anyone downvotes or questions if Pixel uses Stock Android, ask yourself why Pixels have Pixel exclusive features not available in AOSP or not used by Android 1 phones like Nokia

Because google isn’t a fascist regime with a military

But Google is in the country that operates PRISM.

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Post by 0xdeadb00f »

dielll wrote: post #241
jeswin wrote: post #31

What I wish India would do is this: force Chinese phone companies to ship stock Android and full source code. They sell hundreds of millions of phones in India and will have to find middle ground, and the outcome will be good for everyone.

Google neither uses stock Android on Pixel phone nor release full source code of pixel phones, so why should only the Chinese be forced to do that? Before anyone downvotes or questions if Pixel uses Stock Android, ask yourself why Pixels have Pixel exclusive features not available in AOSP or not used by Android 1 phones like Nokia

Google does not release the OS running on Pixels, correct. But don't they release builds + source for AOSP on Pixels?
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