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by rgosain
10 Apr 2020 00:56
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Post Wuhan-Virus(Covid19) World and India
Replies: 484
Views: 128755

Re: Post Wuhan-Virus(Covid19) World and India

Lots of chatter on right wing US channels on perfidy of China and WHO. Statements made by everyone from Trump and Pence to AG Barr to Navarro. It'll get more shrill as numbers hit peak in coming days and later when people start to take stock. A lot of Wall street types and hedge fund managers in Lo...
by rgosain
07 Apr 2020 21:30
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Post Wuhan-Virus(Covid19) World and India
Replies: 484
Views: 128755

Re: Post Wuhan-Virus(Covid19) World and India

Chola, the Japanese Government seems to be echoing your some of your key points. In declaring a state of emergency Japan is seeing a surge of new transmission and new clusters of infection in the Tokyo region, that provides a for more valid baseline than the numbers from the PRC. https://www.theguar...
by rgosain
01 Apr 2020 17:01
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2707418

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

Chola if the readiness of the USN in the WPacific is being compromised and degraded by this virus then the PRC without firing a shot, have degraded the preparedness and the ability of the USN to to operate in that theatre. The habit of the PRC of nurturing these viruses, and then letting them loose ...
by rgosain
29 Mar 2020 18:37
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Post Wuhan-Virus(Covid19) World and India
Replies: 484
Views: 128755

Re: Post-Covid19 World and India

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-im-coronavirus-contrarian-rahul-deans/?trackingId=UGyJyr5M%2F5gRWuYAd7YgEA%3D%3D My article taking an optimistic view. The last para pertains to a post Corona world. Thank you for a very cogent discussion on the steps way ahead. This is very timely because in the ...
by rgosain
24 Mar 2020 18:10
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 10196
Views: 2079560

Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

Chetakji, ^Ren Zhiqiang has 'disappeared'. He has to make up his mind. Is Eleven the emperor, a clown or just Winnie the Pooh? Ren will have some time in his hand now. Gautam The normally pro-Beijing London FT, now owned by the Nikkei, is rather uncomfortable with the PRC these days. https://www.ft...
by rgosain
22 Mar 2020 18:38
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2707418

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

why Japan has less death than Italy, because the Italians did not take the damn thing seriously. The Japanese went on hard borders as soon as the Chinese region exploded. The Italians were carrying out "hug a chinese" exercise during that time. Thanks for mentioning. https://www.newyorker...
by rgosain
18 Mar 2020 21:11
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2707418

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

Prodrug that gets converted to the ribosyl adduct. The electronics of the of the 6-membered ring pyrazine overlaps with that of the triazole on ribavirin which is a known rsv inhibitor. it is nice that we are building up a codex of known comppounds that can be used.
by rgosain
18 Mar 2020 17:03
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2707418

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

The following image shows the incompetence of the who, not unrelated. http://i.4cdn.org/pol/1584501395790.jpg BR was ahead of the curve on this matter a few months back. Others are beginning to stir now but now it is too late: https://thehill.com/opinion/international/487851-china-and-the-whos-chie...
by rgosain
17 Mar 2020 22:33
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2707418

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

Or they might have vaccine already. they can reveal it to the public in october or november. they can claim how their scientists had big breakthrough. nothing explains the carefree attitude both us and uk showing now. unsuprisingly it will be china who will come out with a mass produced vaccine, bu...
by rgosain
17 Mar 2020 22:07
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2707418

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

Britain's dangerous gamble with herd immunity - worth a read https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-pandemic-herd-immunity-uk-boris-johnson/608065/ Argument behind not implementing containment :shock: :shock: With the peak of the pandemic still weeks away, the time hadn’t co...
by rgosain
17 Mar 2020 21:06
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2707418

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

China has already lost the media and optics battle on Wuhan virus. It now more on face saving trajectory. Pigs will fly the day that happens. Already the media in the west is trying to sugar coat the entire Wuhan virus by saying that "china saved the world". This is in addition to such au...
by rgosain
14 Mar 2020 21:45
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2707418

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

Wash your hands before you go to the loo and after and use an ipa based spray is the advice from many synthetic chemists
by rgosain
14 Mar 2020 21:41
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2707418

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

Today China reported only 11 new cases. I am sure Mr Eleven will be immensely happy. Looks like whatever China did, they did it right. During this month their new case graph is practically flat. Hope we can learn something from them. I know the practices of China will be very difficult to enforce i...
by rgosain
13 Mar 2020 13:20
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 10196
Views: 2079560

Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

the wuhan coronavirus china's black swan. It is also a black swan for china sourced supply chains. The risk factors are too high for the global economy to have such a large exposure as well as interconnected dependencies on a single source of supply. the chinese society is not transparent and they ...
by rgosain
13 Mar 2020 02:47
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2707418

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

TWITTER @brfharbans: Assume in 3 years 70% of the worlds population will be infected with #coronavirus. At an average fatality rate of 4 %e it would mean in 3 years the virus will wipe out 224 million people. at a 50% infected rate it will wipe out 112 million people. Is this correct? :shock: https...
by rgosain
12 Mar 2020 02:48
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2707418

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

Yeah I think this was flagged earlier regarding the selectivity and specificity of any assay, and the difficulty in getting a suitable level of precision
by rgosain
12 Mar 2020 02:42
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2707418

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

I am thinking aloud here but is there anyway the so called international community can bill China for all the loss of life and infections , disruption, quarantines. For the past 20 years we have been inundated with sars, h5n1, n1n1, avian flu, bat flu , and now this. I am sure that countries can imp...
by rgosain
19 Jan 2020 18:47
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 10196
Views: 2079560

Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

A different twist to the Bezos scam There’s “a lot of problems” in how the newspaper is reporting from India, Vijay Chauthaiwale, chief of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) foreign affairs department, told Reuters. “The Washington Post’s editorial policy is highly biased and agenda driven,” the of...
by rgosain
03 Jan 2020 15:40
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia News and Discussions
Replies: 1959
Views: 521295

Re: West Asia News and Discussions

I guess it was too good an opportunity for US to miss - big shots all in one place at at the same time. Good intel!! Correct, fortune favours the brave. The iranians will huff and puff in that whining condescending tone, but nothing will happen. Back in 87 the Us demolished the Kharg island facilit...
by rgosain
31 Dec 2019 19:26
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: European Union: Positive News
Replies: 411
Views: 166311

Re: European Union: Positive News

Pres.Putin shoved a spear up the Polish head honcho's backside by reading the history riot act to him about who started WW2.Angrily reacting to the EU passing a resolution blaming Russia of all nations ( who lost 27 million in the war), for starting WW2 along with the Nazis, The 75th. anniversary o...
by rgosain
18 Nov 2019 00:46
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terroristan - November 11, 2019
Replies: 2848
Views: 923034

Re: Terroristan - November 11, 2019

Apparently Atish Taseer, when he got his GC, wrote some article bidding India "goodbye and good riddance?" Is this true, and if so, does anybody have a link? Just for my private collection, it's my hobby :). I'm willing to pay up to one thousand thanks for this. If Aatish had misrepresent...
by rgosain
22 Aug 2019 18:19
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2019 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 6664
Views: 1319855

Re: 2019 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

It looks like cashmere is not the only place where phones are not working :mrgreen: the meltdown has begun ANI Verified account @ANI Kapil Sibal: It's a matter of great concern to us as members of legal fraternity, also it should be a matter of concern as citizens. All we wanted was a hearing,the p...
by rgosain
09 Aug 2019 16:19
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Articles 370 and 35A Repealed, J&K and Ladakh to be Separate Union Territories
Replies: 632
Views: 131402

Re: Articles 370 and 35A Repealed, J&K and Ladakh to be Separate Union Territories

^^ The chankian Yoo Enn Secretary-Jarnail led Pakis by the nose only to get them where he could kick them in the musharraf. Started by expressing "conjarn" about Indian actions, leading to wild celebrations. Then, 2 days later, expanded upon that above and below with total jhapads. The Sh...
by rgosain
09 Aug 2019 02:27
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Articles 370 and 35A Repealed, J&K and Ladakh to be Separate Union Territories
Replies: 632
Views: 131402

Re: Articles 370 and 35A Repealed, J&K and Ladakh to be Separate Union Territories

Guys, latest libtrad rope trick is this. And I am seeing this narrative being spun by the usual suspects, print, undy etc. And that is that 370 was actually developing the valley. That sly Jihadi on Undy, Nasoor whatever reporting from the valley claiming how 370 gave everyone land, how 370 is so p...
by rgosain
07 Aug 2019 19:57
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: AI/Machine Learning, Bharat and Bhartiya IT Industry
Replies: 434
Views: 159218

Re: AI/Machine Learning, Bharat and Bhartiya IT Industry

For people who are far along the AI curve, create browser addons, even for twitter, whats app, disqus and other SM platforms where in pictures shown on social media are annotated on the fly, to check their veracity, like language translation is done. That deflates false propaganda quite a bit inste...
by rgosain
07 Aug 2019 18:11
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Articles 370 and 35A Repealed, J&K and Ladakh to be Separate Union Territories
Replies: 632
Views: 131402

Re: Articles 370 and 35A Repealed, J&K and Ladakh to be Separate Union Territories

It seems NYT has called upon US and China to stop India on its Kashmir plans. :rotfl: Tension lene ka nahin tension dene ka hai. Nice to see the NYT showing off its pro PRC bent by publishing this bulls..t bingo article. Should the GOI continue to allow the NYT access to publish such anti- India ho...
by rgosain
06 Aug 2019 05:16
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: J&K News and Discussion - 2016
Replies: 3305
Views: 926470

Re: J&K News and Discussion - 2016

Actually I was looking forward to Trump negotiating the future of COK with 11 and running a plebescite 70 years after the facts have changed. In all of this the prc and the Saudis has been conspicuosly silent, though of course their mouthpieces like nyt, cnn, The Independent and Reuters have been ca...
by rgosain
21 Jun 2019 15:02
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: The next war in the Persian Gulf
Replies: 294
Views: 78415

Re: The next war in the Persian Gulf

There are parallels between this shootdown of a drone, and the Airbus with 290 passengers back in July 1988, within the same area. Seems as if the Iranians are using the same script from the Reagan admin. It does seem that the us forces made a big scene about the upcoming retaliation strike that was...
by rgosain
20 Jun 2019 17:11
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: US - China Trade War : Where is India ?
Replies: 47
Views: 12315

Re: US - China Trade War : Where is India ?

dont need another desi huawei for this - nokia siemens and ericsson would gladly consume the indian 5G market when it happens. True. It all comes down to cost. At present HW market share is set to grow to a point where it becomes a monopoly in India, whilst its patron the PRC Government continues t...
by rgosain
20 Jun 2019 16:52
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: US - China Trade War : Where is India ?
Replies: 47
Views: 12315

Re: US - China Trade War : Where is India ?

At present HW market share is set to grow to a point where it becomes a monopoly in India, whilst its patron the PRC Government continues to block India at the NSG - the total cost of both is far in excess of any benefit. And this is even before one factors in the loss of business from Western fin-t...
by rgosain
20 Jun 2019 16:34
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: US - China Trade War : Where is India ?
Replies: 47
Views: 12315

Re: US - China Trade War : Where is India ?

Let us see if the PRc will block India at the next NSG or get one of its proxies like Turkey to vote against India. Huawei 5g access to India should be linked to the NSG.
by rgosain
20 Jun 2019 16:20
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
Replies: 6236
Views: 1737941

Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)

Guys the reasoning behind 5g is pretty unanimous - the problem that India has is that in a few weeks time the next NSG is being held. There are two outcomes: 1) the prc blocks India's accession or 2) It gets someone like Turkey, NZ or a a smaller power to blackball India This is exactly what the USA...
by rgosain
12 Jun 2019 16:41
Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
Topic: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 17 Dec 2018
Replies: 5960
Views: 2250243

Re: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 17 Dec 2018

so we are proceeding to our own avengard. this would be a good RV for 1-warhead missiles like A4 and A5. Avengard is a Hypersonic glider, sort of skipping on the upper atmosphere at M25-30 speed. HSTDV is a powered hypersonic flight vehicle, a Scramjet. It will be flying at M6 or so. Hypersonic gli...
by rgosain
07 Jun 2019 23:04
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2019 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 6664
Views: 1319855

Re: 2019 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

I have been banging on this very forum that the cong/upa are a collection of ngos whose MO would be familiar with these types of destabilising influences. See even recently RaGa and the Queen bee were taking instructions from the PRC ambassador. Consider that whilst the elections were still ongoing ...
by rgosain
07 Jun 2019 16:28
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2019 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 6664
Views: 1319855

Re: 2019 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

RajeevK wrote:Rahul looks quite fidgety and restless. Most of the body language mistakes listed here can be applied in his case
Good find guys.
Manchurian Candidates meeting their handlers and mentors for instructions.

Shows that RaGa is just a tool or puppet of the Prc and all the others
by rgosain
04 Jun 2019 17:54
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2019 General Elections : Results Discussion
Replies: 2982
Views: 419862

Re: 2019 General Elections : Results Discussion

MHA has prepared a shitlist of top10 kashmir terrorists. they are to be hunted down. The western media tends to glorifies terrorism against india by referring to terrorists as "charismatic", "popular", "respected militants" The fact that this is done with some synchron...
by rgosain
04 Jun 2019 15:00
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 7441
Views: 1625808

Re: Understanding the US - Again

syam wrote:What happens to visa issue once Modiji term is over?

Are they going to re-issue ban again?
Should be a blessing in disguise. Every country has the right to determine who can enter their domain and can refuse, deny those that are deemed unfit. Works both ways..
by rgosain
04 Jun 2019 14:49
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
Replies: 6236
Views: 1737941

Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)

The language marks a totally different shift and approach to the PRC by the GOI that would not have happened if the RaGa or the UPa had come to power. Whether India gets the nod at the NSG is irrelevant to keeping Huwei away the 5g infrastructure. India will have to bite the bullet and champion its ...