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by svinayak
20 Feb 2017 12:26
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 888320

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

One direct negative indicator is his advisor Steve Bannon who does not like Indians to be CEOs of Silicon Valley firms. It is an indicator only, because we do not know how much actual influence Bannon has on Trump's decisions. Nor will we be able to disentangle that from the many stories floating a...
by svinayak
17 Feb 2017 21:18
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
Replies: 4573
Views: 1088487

Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015

He was discussing Israeli mangoes that they grow in the desert and made a strong pitch to NOT share technology with India as in his opinion it would be detrimental to Israeli agricultural interests ! Check out Jain Irrigations. http://www.jains.com/irrigation/drip%20irrigation%20system.htm - Desis ...
by svinayak
16 Feb 2017 14:43
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Space Program: News & Discussion - Sept 2016
Replies: 4447
Views: 1540872

Re: Indian Space Programme Discussion - Sept 2016

Chine rocket guidence and control system was weak resulting in crashes US allowed export of tech to China for china to gain that tech China may be still behind in these areas. hence the comments by China on Indian launch http://www.whiteoutpress.com/timeless/how-china-conquered-america746/ February ...
by svinayak
16 Feb 2017 12:36
Forum: Military Issues Archive
Topic: 'Make in India' Single engined fighter
Replies: 5424
Views: 1229792

Re: 'Make in India' Single engined fighter

XPosting from LCA thread Navy to bear 25% cost of upgraded LCA He was convinced that the entire aviation industry was set for a boom. “We will require about 1,000 aircraft for civil aviation alone. The requirement for helicopters in defence could be 800-1,000 and fighters around 600-800. We would n...
by svinayak
14 Feb 2017 20:48
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)
Replies: 10352
Views: 2271648

Re: Managing Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)

Events leading to the Sino-Indian Conflict of 1962 - Linus Irtahk, IDSA Monograph It was in March 2015 that the author set out to search for evidence for the Dalai Lama’s older brother, Gyalo Thondup’s assertion made in his autobiography, The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong: The Untold Story of My Strugg...
by svinayak
14 Feb 2017 20:36
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Eastern Europe/Ukraine [Feb 6th 2015]
Replies: 5804
Views: 965199

Re: Eastern Europe/Ukraine [Feb 6th 2015]

There is a definite chemistry between Christian Women in many nations Not just Ukraine but also Russia and perhaps eastern Europe (including Germany) itself to Turkish Men. . Russia has found a country near the Eurasia which is friendly and closer to the Russian families. This gives them deep reach...
by svinayak
14 Feb 2017 20:28
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 888320

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

In the past week the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released a new report attacking India and Hinduism. The report, Constitutional and Legal Challenges Faced by Religious Minorities in India, rather than being written by USCIRF staff, was outsourced exclusively ...
by svinayak
14 Feb 2017 01:03
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: J&K News and Discussion - 2016
Replies: 3305
Views: 954295

Re: J&K News and Discussion - 2016

^^ I don't think a democratic govt in presence of a 'secular' press/media can perform this dirty job, I repeat we need to put j&k through presidential rule and repeal art 370 at the earliest to clean this terror factory, the more we let this drama continue it will increase the costs at a future...
by svinayak
13 Feb 2017 23:27
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan- November 7, 2016
Replies: 2857
Views: 676413

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan- November 7, 2016

^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aBUQzOc37I eg, watch from 53.00, fun, fun, fun. Fair Didi seems to be on the side of the good guys. Has that changed in some years? I think I remember her being enamored by the fair and strong jihadis but maybe I am mistaken... US has a long way to go until they d...
by svinayak
13 Feb 2017 23:11
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India and Japan: News and Discussion
Replies: 2129
Views: 382330

Re: India and Japan: News and Discussion

Kashi wrote: Adjusting for population (both Indian and the total of the host nation), Indian investment in Japan would seem pretty high per capita in comparison.
It does not work that way. India was removed from the older colonial trading and commerce groups with new alliance in the last 50 years.
by svinayak
13 Feb 2017 23:02
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)
Replies: 10352
Views: 2271648

Re: Managing Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2017/02/11/china-tells-india-to-stay-off-its-indian-ocean-colony-sri-lanka/#3d5e7d725f3a China tells India to stay off its Indian-Ocean colony Srilanka. http://m.indiatoday.in/story/chinese-media-slams-india-projects-sri-lanka-global-times/1/876627.htm...
by svinayak
13 Feb 2017 22:49
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan- November 7, 2016
Replies: 2857
Views: 676413

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan- November 7, 2016

Thank you! That was way more entertaining than anything I have seen on TV lately :lol: IMO, the Hudson-Heritage report is 'more of the same US policies' that are on offer since 1952, but is couched in a way as though it appears revolutionary and recognizes the Pakistani duplicity. It is a humbug re...
by svinayak
13 Feb 2017 22:39
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 888320

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-12/america-s-biggest-creditors-dump-treasuries-in-warning-to-trump America’s Biggest Creditors Dump Treasuries in Warning to Trump Japanese investors cull U.S. government debt by most since ’13 Currency-hedged returns were worst on record last quarter...
by svinayak
10 Feb 2017 23:38
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India and Japan: News and Discussion
Replies: 2129
Views: 382330

Re: India and Japan: News and Discussion

http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/Japan-woos-foreign-talent-with-easier-residency-norms/article17242793.ece Mr. Maeda {Executive Vice President of the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO)} said currently there is an “investment imbalance” between Japan and India. The investments by Jap...
by svinayak
10 Feb 2017 11:59
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Deterrence
Replies: 5130
Views: 924455

Re: Deterrence

vera_k wrote:According to Ashley Tellis book, Evernden data is to be discounted because it was found to have included data from another earthquake that happened at the same time.
How is that possible!
by svinayak
09 Feb 2017 12:59
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)
Replies: 10352
Views: 2271648

Re: Managing Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)

The only way we can control the chinese threat is by a military alliance.Give the Americans a base in the Andaman sea or even one in Kashmir overlookng Gilgit Baltistan.Only this will terrify the CHinese to their bones.Right now they are not bothered.They have no fear of any Indian retaliation.No c...
by svinayak
09 Feb 2017 12:39
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: A new world order .. why India should initiate a south Asian union
Replies: 40
Views: 11091

Re: A new world order .. why India should initiate a south Asian union

Forget other countries, will India put boots on Ground for Vietnam if say tomorrow, Vietnam and China get into a shooting war or even provide ammunition and Brahmos during hypothetical tense eyeball-to-eyeball situation. Even I doubt if Indian leadership would have the cojones to miff and incur wra...
by svinayak
08 Feb 2017 23:05
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Deterrence
Replies: 5130
Views: 924455

Re: Deterrence

Agree! They have deployed a corrected product - not by changing the laws of physics, but by changing the design and maybe some materials used. This is untested. Furthermore, they have deployed a series of scaled up products on the basis of that one underperforming test that they later "correct...
by svinayak
08 Feb 2017 23:02
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)
Replies: 10352
Views: 2271648

Re: Managing Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)

China is giving the impression that the '1267 Committee' is not convinced of Masood Azhar's terrorism charges while in fact it is the *ONLY* country to stand against inclusion of his name in the list. It simply puts a 'hold' rather than debate the issue. Its past behaviour on this issue has been th...
by svinayak
07 Feb 2017 13:52
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread - June 2015
Replies: 1782
Views: 633419

Re: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread- June 2015

The old style of Anglo-American capitalism was built on manufacturing; but the new style rests on debt - particularly home ownership - to maintain consumption and high standards of living. Doesn't make any sense to me. Artificially increasing the value of housing has proved disastrous to these econ...
by svinayak
07 Feb 2017 13:50
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Understanding US thread-III
Replies: 3131
Views: 606963

Re: Understanding US thread-III



Steve Bannon as the real power behind the president

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http://forward.com/culture/362093/how-t ... n-of-evil/
by svinayak
07 Feb 2017 13:24
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Understanding US thread-III
Replies: 3131
Views: 606963

Re: Understanding US thread-III



Sean Spicer Press Conference (Melissa McCarthy) - SNL

This has shook the real media


The real stuff is hear
by svinayak
06 Feb 2017 23:16
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Understanding US thread-III
Replies: 3131
Views: 606963

Re: Understanding US thread-III

And the defiance continues: Coca Cola super bowl commercial with political overtone. Hope Beople have noticed the shameless effort to attribute Hindi to muslim ummah(assorted pakis) in the vedio led by CocaCola. Guess CocaCola suddenly wants the otherwise dutty stinking yindoos in massaland to sacr...
by svinayak
06 Feb 2017 23:03
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Understanding US thread-III
Replies: 3131
Views: 606963

Re: Understanding US thread-III

First on the White House agenda – the collapse of the global order. Next, war? Jonathan Freedland Close to the top of the pile, according to this week’s Time magazine, is a book called The Fourth Turning, which argues that human history moves in 80- to 100-year cycles, each one climaxing in a viole...
by svinayak
06 Feb 2017 12:30
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 888320

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

How India takes advantage of global chaos will be an interesting story. India can't fix its internal failures and mechanisms, it is unlikely do much for by itself on global chaos, which is typically created and controlled by super powers, US and Russia. I am not sure India can put the boot and bite...
by svinayak
03 Feb 2017 11:28
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Eastern Europe/Ukraine [Feb 6th 2015]
Replies: 5804
Views: 965199

Re: Eastern Europe/Ukraine [Feb 6th 2015]

Escalation meant to derail the atmosphere of the impending Trump-Putin summit by the UKR stoking the fires again at the behest of NATO and vested interests within the US establishment. The UKR is running scared that trump will lift sanctions imposed on Rusia and turn a Nelsonian eye to the Crimes r...
by svinayak
02 Feb 2017 13:54
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)
Replies: 10352
Views: 2271648

Re: Managing Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)



Heavy comparison of India with other countries
by svinayak
30 Jan 2017 22:53
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 888320

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

Bureaucracy slows down India-US partnership: US Army Pacific Force Commander[ Again, note that is a comment from PACOM. And, India forms the geographic boundary for PACOM. Mattis being from CENTCOM will always think in terms of working with Pakistan. So far Mattis has not projected a stance that is...
by svinayak
30 Jan 2017 11:34
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan- November 7, 2016
Replies: 2857
Views: 676413

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan- November 7, 2016

Pakistan Could be in Immigration Ban List In Future: White House Washington: There is a possibility in the future of including Pakistan in the list of countries from where immigration has been banned, a top White House official indicated on Sunday, acknowledging for the first time that Pakistan was...
by svinayak
26 Jan 2017 23:41
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Understanding US thread-III
Replies: 3131
Views: 606963

Re: Understanding US thread-III

Dipanker wrote:Mexico is easy target for Trump to demonize. US has bigger trade deficit with China, EU, Germany, and Japan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrVyYH3Yb6k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQglLpBK6nQ

This is huge change for Mexico.

Mexico can be bullied not non of the other countries
by svinayak
26 Jan 2017 23:24
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread - June 2015
Replies: 1782
Views: 633419

Re: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread- June 2015

devesh wrote: What? How?
See the Beck video. See the Sykes Picot treaty video
It is all about geography.

America changing course will help India

India has to take some of the land based connectivity and region under its belt.
India has to coopt China so that China become a partner for India
by svinayak
26 Jan 2017 14:05
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Latest Chinese boast: should we shiver or die laughing?
Replies: 1451
Views: 351111

Re: Latest Chinese boast: should we shiver or die laughing?

One of the biggest problems I have found about the shivering caused by the 1962 war is the lack of public information of what happened and where it happened. Knowing the history and associated geography is important. So I will start by posting a map of the spots where valiant battles were fought in...
by svinayak
26 Jan 2017 13:13
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terrorist State of Pakistan - Multimedia Links
Replies: 2728
Views: 579816

Re: Terrorist State of Pakistan - Multimedia Links



Check the fun part
They expect the same thing
by svinayak
26 Jan 2017 10:42
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread - June 2015
Replies: 1782
Views: 633419

Re: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread- June 2015

CPEC is key for India
CPEC is freedom to India and India can play a longer game
by svinayak
26 Jan 2017 10:29
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread - June 2015
Replies: 1782
Views: 633419

Re: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread- June 2015

Ignore the author but look at the information given



This video explains why Trump got elected.
US is a card in the global game.
China is to be setup as the leader of the new world order
by svinayak
26 Jan 2017 10:09
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread - June 2015
Replies: 1782
Views: 633419

Re: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread- June 2015

kxEpSqz57Vc 100 years of the Sykes Picot treaty in 100 seconds 100 year agreement and Trump was elected on 100 years of the agreement Indian Independence from Britain has created this problem after 60+ years. Decolonization has opened the old wounds in the middle east and it is so essential for the...
by svinayak
26 Jan 2017 10:01
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread - June 2015
Replies: 1782
Views: 633419

Re: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread- June 2015

3mXMtLmhQ74 new caliphate The 100-Year-Old Agreement You Need to Know About to Understand What’s Driving the Islamic State Sykes-Picot and the Islamic State “I know I read about [the Sykes-Picot Agreement] years ago when we were at Fox, and I put it up on the chalkboard,” Beck remarked. “But it did...
by svinayak
26 Jan 2017 09:48
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread - June 2015
Replies: 1782
Views: 633419

Re: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread- June 2015

Why Huntington and Beck Are Wrong The Alliance of Christian and Muslim Civilizations An analysis of our recent past–the second half of the twentieth century–shows there has been no conflict, but rather an alliance, between Christian and Muslim civilizations. One indicator of this alliance is that t...
by svinayak
25 Jan 2017 22:32
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Understanding US thread-III
Replies: 3131
Views: 606963

Re: Understanding US thread-III

The average donations to EJ charities and NGOs operating outside unkil from unkils public and govt was about 210 Billion $ / year last time i checked. They can do a lot of damage with that money. Although it is bound to have lower influence in the coming decades. If we hang on to about 2030 without...
by svinayak
25 Jan 2017 12:58
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 888320

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

disha wrote:Diplomat'is is always staid. I am surprised that BRFites are worked up over diplomatis output.

3. However the keyword here is Central Asia.
Afghanistan, US and India have same interest on Afghanistan and beyond


There is a larger vision but it is not being spoken overtly