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- 06 Dec 2018 13:30
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
- Replies: 6236
- Views: 1795654
Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
The 5-eyes nations and the EU together with the Japanese have banned Huawei and other Chinese telecom firms from operating networks or 5G platforms that can be compromised or become a security risk. They will extend the same to Lenovo and few others in the chip ector Since the PRC has taken it upon ...
- 06 Dec 2018 12:01
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Corruption in Arms Deals - News and Analysis
- Replies: 768
- Views: 124724
Re: Corruption in Arms Deals - News and Analysis
The problem is that the evidence is at best circumstantial and Michel could brave it out by pleading not guilty, but it is good to see the luminaries of the upa coming out in support of him.
A lot of these commissions and back-handers from weapons procurement are used to fund the congress eco system
A lot of these commissions and back-handers from weapons procurement are used to fund the congress eco system
- 02 Dec 2018 03:09
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
- Replies: 8450
- Views: 3037054
Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
Thanks for spotting this. Indians have this fetish for seeking validation from unelected foreign funded bodies.. shades of the EICSuraj wrote:Conflict of interest with his private $$ job at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would be perfectly reasonable grounds for removal from the RBI board .
- 26 Nov 2018 21:00
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Christianity, Evangelism & its geopolitical impact
- Replies: 1237
- Views: 420636
Re: Christianity, Evangelism & its geopolitical impact
JEM that was a well thought out analysis and historical tour d force that should be required reading for all on the 10th anniversary of 26/11 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/22/hillary-clinton-europe-must-curb-immigration-stop-populists-trump-brexit In India's case the number reqd would b...
- 11 Oct 2018 13:11
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: CAATSA...An Oxymoron?
- Replies: 890
- Views: 209408
Re: CAATSA...An Oxymoron?
I think both sides know that there are going to be tariffs on India whether there are sanctions or not, and it is for this reason that Iran has been contracted to supply a further 9m barrels following the Nov deadline. The level of tariffs is probably equivalent to India's outlay for US weapons sinc...
- 16 Jul 2018 00:21
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 7501
- Views: 1749262
Re: Understanding the US- Again
bannon giving interviews with british media about how now is the time to start the (white nationalist) right wing revolt in europe... ugly times Well spotted, but more visibly is the role played by USCIRF as a lobbyist for white supremacists and anti-islamic grouos https://www.theguardian.com/uk-ne...
- 15 Jul 2018 04:18
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 7501
- Views: 1749262
Re: Understanding the US- Again
If anyone had any doubts about the true nature of the office of US Ambassador for 'Religious Freedom', then this spat between the UK and the USA regarding the imprisonment of Tommy Robinson, the right wing rabble rouser and self-styled defender of white, christian values should really be an object l...
- 14 Jul 2018 23:22
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
- Replies: 5642
- Views: 1633278
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Whilst some Indians are happy to give the Thomson-Reuters foundation the benefit of the doubt for their fraudulent and unscientific methodology known as perception indexing, the former UK FM, Bojo is not prepared to be so generous. A Uk_iranian national who works for reuters and bbc has been impriso...
- 28 Jun 2018 03:37
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: CAATSA...An Oxymoron?
- Replies: 890
- Views: 209408
Re: CAATSA .. An Oxymoron ?
I really hope the US imposes sanctions. Please do it! exactly what I was saying .. that is what should happen. a good reality check for the Indian establishment Similar set of sanctions that was used in 98 before and after POK2; if India goes ahead with the S400. Is this POK3 for the 21st century? ...
- 30 May 2018 11:39
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 8806
- Views: 2483588
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Simple.India should tell the US that any attempt to curtail its defence purchases from Russia by CAASTA blackmail, would mean curtains for all Future US arms sales to India.In addition, the "Quad " would now be reduced to that of a ( non- Chin) Triad, with India free to choose her friends...
- 30 May 2018 03:49
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India Nuclear News and Discussion 4 July 2011
- Replies: 4532
- Views: 707938
Re: India Nuclear News and Discussion 4 July 2011
The present discussions surrounding CAATSA and the sanctions regime, brings to mind the entry into force clauses of the CTBT and the attempts by previous US admins 25 years ago to CRE , which was done at the behest of the PRC. China continued to test and proliferate and was rewarded with an NSG seat...
- 21 May 2018 04:32
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-Russia: News & Analysis
- Replies: 6071
- Views: 1275106
Re: India-Russia: News & Analysis
With oil prices heading back up to 100 and the need to mitigate CO2 emissions, nuclear once again starts to look attractive,and this is where advancing Khondalukan can be beneficial to the Russians in the long term, once the sanctions kick in. Here is a thing. Was CAATSA steered by the PRC. There is...
- 21 Apr 2018 23:44
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
- Replies: 5642
- Views: 1633278
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
India's PM had pretty good interactions at the Science Museum-Imperial College, and at the new Francis Crick building which is Europe's largest Bioscience-Pharma hub in London. Re: the flag Some of these agitators are linked to the UPA network in London through a group called Awaaz that provides fun...
- 17 Apr 2018 01:41
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: West Asia News and Discussions
- Replies: 1962
- Views: 565170
Re: West Asia News and Discussions
Taqiyaa in action. Actually MBS might believe his own bull..it, but the market for Saudi heavy crude is contracting as diesel cars and vans are headed for extinction, hence the plans for new refineries in India.
- 17 Apr 2018 01:34
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Levant crisis - III
- Replies: 12253
- Views: 1959781
Re: Levant crisis - III
Where are a India's metropolitan elite and chatterati, who are always willing to cry themselves hoarse in their NGO-accented English accents on "South Asia" being a nuclear-flash point everytime the GOI deigns to target terrorists. Their silence is deafening when the established p5 nuclear...
- 15 Apr 2018 23:28
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Levant crisis - III
- Replies: 12253
- Views: 1959781
Re: Levant crisis - III
UB nice analysis. Consider that back in 1998 Bill Clinton leveled a sudanese pharmaceutical factory, that US claimed was making CW for AQ, with 15 TCM. This time it was 76 on a research facility that was above ground. Those were the days when Saddam and Milosovic were subjected to round the clock bo...
- 14 Apr 2018 22:37
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Cambridge Analytica and Next Color Revolutions India
- Replies: 113
- Views: 29039
Re: Cambridge Analytica and Next Color Revolutions India
Cambridge Analytics has undergone several iterations and its origins in the UK establishment that involves GCHQ, numerous think thanks and institutions, not all of them based in Cambridge or the Fenlands. The recent furore of its involvement in the Brexit referendum of 2016 has exposed some of their...
- 14 Apr 2018 20:52
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Levant crisis - III
- Replies: 12253
- Views: 1959781
Re: Levant crisis - III
Clearly Russia aren't going to retaliate for this bombardment, but was this volley of missiles aimed to warn the Iranians in Syria and Iraq that they can be targeted at any time, using the alleged chemical attack as a pretext. Consider that last year's strike off-loaded 60 CM on a single AFB,and thi...
- 20 Mar 2018 13:25
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
- Replies: 5642
- Views: 1633278
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Philip, Akshay these guys tend to play both ends through the middle and it appears that Skripal was still passing tidbits of information back to his old mates in Moscow for a fee according to the German press reports When he was released as part of the exchange for Anna Chapman, the US thought he wa...
- 17 Mar 2018 21:57
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
- Replies: 5642
- Views: 1633278
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Usually whenever there is a terrorist outrage in India, the evidence is lampooned or deliberately misplaced as it was after the Mumbai attack in 1993. This is usually followed by craven call for restraint. What India can learn from this attack in Salisbury, is that if these new CW reagents are real,...
- 25 Feb 2018 22:31
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-Canada, Mexico and South America: News and Discussion
- Replies: 1089
- Views: 239311
Re: India-Canada, Mexico and South America: News and Discussion
Huge amounts of Canada's Real Estate is now owned by the PRC either directly or indirectly. The following article in the LOndon Times illustrates what has happened in Australia, but the same can be said even more of Canada. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/australia-has-become-china-s-puppet-state...
- 23 Nov 2017 12:38
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
- Replies: 5642
- Views: 1633278
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Back in 1996 the uk, usa and china encouraged Australia to seek a vote at UNGA that would overide India's concerns regarding the ctbt. How things have come a full circle, that the UK had to rely on the PRC who routinely flout UNCLOSS and the ICJ rulings for support at the unsc. Modi trips have come ...
- 03 Sep 2017 14:36
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India - South & North Korea Thread
- Replies: 1370
- Views: 302205
Re: India - South & North Korea Thread
the shape of the device Kim is looking at exactly matches the dual peanut shape of a traditional H bomb http://coffeespoons.me/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/hydrogenBombDiagram.png given that its 101% a proxy cheeni+paki test, we need to shed our suicidal tendencies and test a adequate range of H-weap...
- 19 Aug 2017 19:15
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)
- Replies: 10352
- Views: 2273567
Re: Neutering & defeating Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)
as usual BRF is ahead of curve - told ya they would try a 'police action' with truncheons and brawling. we were ready :twisted: Whatever next; pepper spray, water cannons, rubber bullets, hired bouncers from private security firms like Xe formerly Blackwater who have been hired by the PRC to safegu...
- 04 Aug 2017 14:11
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)
- Replies: 10352
- Views: 2273567
Re: Managing Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)
In response to the 15 page fact sheet, India issued a one line rebuttal. India chose not to counter China point by point. "India considers that peace and tranquillity in the India-China border areas is an important prerequisite for smooth development of our bilateral relations with China,"...
- 19 Jun 2017 22:40
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
- Replies: 5642
- Views: 1633278
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
imam protecting the attacker is perfect implementation of ruse-de guerre or as they call it 'taqia'. I wont be surprised if the same imam would have goaded the peacefuls of bearing 25 children to have more say in voting or wold have been involved in illegal immigration I am speaking as someone who ...
- 04 Jun 2017 13:12
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indo-UK News and Discussion - April 2013
- Replies: 3962
- Views: 625986
Re: Indo-UK News and Discussion - April 2013
Ah you were referring to the killers. I was wondering if it was that or something else. JEM there is a sick compettion between those of Pakistan origin and those from the Med-Levant in the UK to see who can commit the worst atrocities against women. Previously it was the grooming of girls in places...
- 04 Jun 2017 12:00
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indo-UK News and Discussion - April 2013
- Replies: 3962
- Views: 625986
Re: Indo-UK News and Discussion - April 2013
Mediterranean : not of Pakistani origin. They tend to be of Moroccan, Algerian, Libyan, Turkish or Albanian all cultures that tend to look down upon their South Asian brethren. Also they are easily radicalised into jihad that serves the neo-con agenda.JE Menon wrote:What of Mediterranean origin Akshay?
- 30 May 2017 19:17
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: OBOR, Chinese Strategy and Implications
- Replies: 995
- Views: 267482
Re: OBOR, Chinese Strategy and Implications
Obor makes perfect sense from a US perspective and should be seen as a realisation of the clinton-zemin accord from 1997. As part of the US-China strategic partnership the PRC would be recognised as having suzerainty over the Asian landmass whilst the US would dominate the Pacific ocean and beyond, ...
- 25 May 2017 22:15
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Tracking India's Admission into International Groups & Bodies
- Replies: 754
- Views: 155417
Re: Tracking India's Admission into International Groups
Why now?Supratik wrote:India aligning tech and export control laws in line with Wassenar and Australia group in preparation of joining them. From youtube. Source unknown.
What are the pros and cons for these groups to exclude India as they have done in the past?
Where is the PRC in all of this
- 17 May 2017 17:47
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India Nuclear News and Discussion 4 July 2011
- Replies: 4532
- Views: 707938
Re: India Nuclear News and Discussion 4 July 2011
I still think that Rusatom will probably get the deal, but it looks like cap, roll back and eliminate for Westinghouse Toshiba. A way forward might be to explore how to bring India into the NPT with the same right as the P-5. Will these indigenous reactors be outside of the remit of IAEA inspections...
- 16 May 2017 01:28
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: OBOR, Chinese Strategy and Implications
- Replies: 995
- Views: 267482
Re: OBOR, Chinese Strategy and Implications
OBOR and its fascination with resurrecting the long dormant and mythical Silk road in the deserts of Central Asia brings to mind images of empires blown away on the desert sands by hubris, and the following stanza needs no introduction My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Might...
- 07 May 2017 14:25
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Space Program: News & Discussion - Sept 2016
- Replies: 4447
- Views: 1542410
Re: Indian Space Programme Discussion - Sept 2016
Astrosat is likely to become the key source for researching high energy x-rays, uv, which may be clues to dark matter/energy, from the milky way and beyond as both the Chandra telescope and the Japanese satellites are reaching the end of their life. Isro should offer a lottery and expand the slots f...
- 03 May 2017 13:11
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: India Border Watch: Security and Operations
- Replies: 4479
- Views: 1235645
Re: India Border Watch: Security and Operations
Each time a Paki atrocity happens,it is the equiv of a recurring nightmare,played back again and again.We simply repeat the stale past their sell-by date slogans about "befitting replies" etc. I wonder whether a tailor is required for the "fitting " part,why this "bespoke&q...
- 15 Apr 2017 15:00
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India - South & North Korea Thread
- Replies: 1370
- Views: 302205
Re: India - South & North Korea Thread
I have been saying it on this very forum since 2002 that any NK tests are PRc tests, and the GOI should waste no effort in pointing this out. Whether they have done so is open to question. These tests allow the PRC to be confident of it stockpile stewardship over a longer term, than would be the cas...
- 10 Apr 2017 18:07
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India Nuclear News and Discussion 4 July 2011
- Replies: 4532
- Views: 707938
Re: India Nuclear News and Discussion 4 July 2011
Global nuclear giants go bust, should India celebrate? - PTI The global nuclear industry is going through a virtual meltdown on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. This is happening even as India is investing heavily in nuclear energy. This collapse of atomic giants offers New Delhi a new opportunity...
- 06 Apr 2017 18:34
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
- Replies: 3964
- Views: 889975
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Leave aside whether Haley has been got at by the PRC, Saudi, Pak interests in the deep state of the SD or UN and consider that her statements came on the eve of the visit of Xi to Trump. Is this Xi's way of suggesting that PRC, will rein in the DPRK, if the US solves cashmere to the benefit of Pakis...
- 27 Mar 2017 15:57
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indo-UK News and Discussion - April 2013
- Replies: 3962
- Views: 625986
Re: Indo-UK News and Discussion - April 2013
http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/AFFC/production/_95325054_bridge_pa.jpg taqiya full flowing in London through BBC etc... Thanks for spotting this expression of taqiya on the Thames. Two points missed, who managed to organise this lot in such a short space of time, and look at the way the...
- 23 Mar 2017 21:39
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indo-UK News and Discussion - April 2013
- Replies: 3962
- Views: 625986
Re: Indo-UK News and Discussion - April 2013
The game of bullshit bingo requires identifying certain cliches and when you have 6 of them to shout bingo. Following the recent outrage in London, it hasn't taken anytime for the following cliches to be aired by the various apologists: a) terrorism has no religion b) muslims are the largest victims...
- 04 Feb 2017 19:24
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
- Replies: 3964
- Views: 889975
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Here is a prime example displaying the nexus between the US EJ group CI, leftists in India and the various propagandists in West such as the Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/03/christian-charity-set-to-withdraw-from-india-after-funding-blocked The road to hell is often paved with...