Boris Johnson cancels India trip amid rising cases
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Re: Boris Johnson cancels India trip amid rising cases
#2The relationship between these two countries must be pretty awkward. The former colonizer is now a failing nation, while the colonized has the future.
Re: Boris Johnson cancels India trip amid rising cases
#3The relationship between these two countries must be pretty awkward. The former colonizer is now a failing nation, while the colonized has the future.
With adults, not every conversation has to be about history either party can control, so the relationship usually looks towards the future.
Re: Boris Johnson cancels India trip amid rising cases
#4Can't the chairs of state start acting like CEOs of their countries rather than like royals who need to fly 200 people just to have a chat? They can talk on zoom, all we need to know is "chairman of india spoke to chairman of uk and the following things changed:"
Re: Boris Johnson cancels India trip amid rising cases
#5Can't the chairs of state start acting like CEOs of their countries rather than like royals who need to fly 200 people just to have a chat? They can talk on zoom, all we need to know is "chairman of india spoke to chairman of uk and the following things changed:"
What makes you think they don‘t? Actual physical visits are to eg finalze deals, when high-bandwidth communication is necessary. And by high-bandwidth I mean body language, spontaneous n-to-n conversations between all participants, etc.
Re: Boris Johnson cancels India trip amid rising cases
#6The relationship between these two countries must be pretty awkward. The former colonizer is now a failing nation, while the colonized has the future.
I would hardly consider Britain a failed state compared to the utter poverty, religious violence, and sexual inequality tens of millions face daily there.
Re: Boris Johnson cancels India trip amid rising cases
#7Can't the chairs of state start acting like CEOs of their countries rather than like royals who need to fly 200 people just to have a chat? They can talk on zoom, all we need to know is "chairman of india spoke to chairman of uk and the following things changed:"
What makes you think they don‘t? Actual physical visits are to eg finalze deals, when high-bandwidth communication is necessary. And by high-bandwidth I mean body language, spontaneous n-to-n conversations between all participants, etc.
i don't think decisions that affect millions should be based on body language
Re: Boris Johnson cancels India trip amid rising cases
#8Can't the chairs of state start acting like CEOs of their countries rather than like royals who need to fly 200 people just to have a chat? They can talk on zoom, all we need to know is "chairman of india spoke to chairman of uk and the following things changed:"
Especially considering international travel is still banned by law for any non-essential purposes, and I can't see how a meeting that could be trivially done on Zoom would be classified as essential.
Re: Boris Johnson cancels India trip amid rising cases
#9It's surprising how much worse the covid situation has recently got in India. If you look at the cases graph https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/india/
I'm not sure how it's gone from declining in Jan to super exponential in Mar/April?
Re: Boris Johnson cancels India trip amid rising cases
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
What makes you think they don‘t? Actual physical visits are to eg finalze deals, when high-bandwidth communication is necessary. And by high-bandwidth I mean body language, spontaneous n-to-n conversations between all participants, etc.
i don't think decisions that affect millions should be based on body language
What should they be based on? Its kind of stupid to ask people to behave like Spock like value maximizing machines.