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cont'd The People’s Republic of China has already taken this logic to its fullest conclusion. Popular voting may have been done away with all-together in China, but it too is still a democracy (it says so right in its constitution!). Instead of elections, the Party (which exists solely to represent ...

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https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/the-china-convergence This is the simple and easy narrative of our present moment. In some ways it is accurate: a geopolitical competition really is in the process of boiling over into open confrontation. But it’s also fundamentally shallow and misleading: when it...

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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-20/xi-biden-summit-in-cold-war-2-against-china-us-may-play-soviet-role What if we had a new cold war — and we were the Soviets? That was the question I found myself asking during this week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit You know it’s a ...

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The BIF are solidly backing the powers that be in andhra as well. Their dravidian eelam project, especially after the ltte debacle, that was to have taken a slight detour and re emerge like the invigorated phoenix after being replanted in TN to take root in more salubrious climes, has now hit a maj...

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https://warontherocks.com/2023/11/the-myanmar-military-is-facing-death-by-a-thousand-cuts/ While the fog of war demands analytical caution, Operation 1027 carries important implications for the future of Myanmar. First, the Myanmar military is increasingly overstretched despite its airpower and art...

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https://features.csis.org/snapshots/china-submarine-diplomacy/ China is quietly deepening its influence along the Bay of Bengal, a region intimately linked to Beijing’s expanding overseas interests. Commercial satellite imagery reveals that China has made significant progress on a naval base it is ...

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not strictly india related seemingly, but in this world of coincidences the final story always deals out hurts to all players, also many indian descendants in the nation of guyana and oil https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2023/11/16/venezuela-vs-guyana-the-battle-for-el-essequibos-oil/?sh=2b39...

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mp - bjp to win, tough fight though, narendra singh tomar, narottam mishra among few big names facing tough polls, kailash vijayvargiya winning though he was constrained to his area cg - inc to win, the bjp machinery kicked into gear quite late, baghel has a better messaging throughout tenure you ca...

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a very exhaustive look on the conflict in various places, good primer for anyone following this one https://asiatimes.com/2023/11/no-good-options-for-myanmars-mortally-wounded-regime/ https://i0.wp.com/asiatimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Myanmar-Map-Shan-State-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C957&ssl=1 ...

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not india related as of now https://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/the-lobito-corridor-washingtons-answer-to-belt-and-road-in-africa/ In an attempt to counter this influence, the US is injecting millions into the Lobito Corridor project. Indeed, sourcing the metals to fuel the energy transition remains...

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https://responsiblestatecraft.org/military-readiness-war/ a piece that has been increasingly been asked in recent times, who exactly will fight all these american wars, the lordships want bodies on the ground to act as bullet catchers and hopefully defray any outstanding social security liability, ...

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The issue for KCR is that he always promises something with elections in mind and after elections are won it is put on a back burner. After 2014 elections with KCR who went back on his words that he will merge his party into Congress if new telangana is given and also make a dalit guy CM when fight...

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Aren't their vote banks completely different with each focussing separately on the divisive BIF and non BIF ecosystems from whence they derive their major political benefits chetak saar, would you mind expanding a bit more on this line of thought? i would suppose the common refrain is that ysrcp ha...

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https://asiatimes.com/2023/11/to-challenge-russia-turkey-courts-its-turkic-brethren/ At last week’s OTS summit, in the Kazakh capital Astana, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said it’s the Turkic language family that bonds Turkey with Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbek...

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from atish taseer, though is a travelogue of sorts: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/09/t-magazine/travel-bolivia-mongolia-iraq.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article I was on a pilgrimage of sorts myself. From my home in New York, Bolivia would be my first stop in w...

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with the focus on all the sexy wars in the world, this unglamorous one goes unnoticed: https://asiatimes.com/2023/11/brotherhood-alliance-rewriting-myanmars-war-narrative/ The stunning Blitzkrieg of Operation 1027 in northern Shan state over the past two weeks will possibly go down as the most pivot...

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https://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/uzbekistan-in-focus-as-france-pivots-toward-central-asia/ Second, France is keen on intensifying cooperation with Central Asian countries, especially with Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, to diversify its sources of energy. Recent disruptions in global energy markets, ...

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https://www.cfr.org/tracker/china-overseas-ports The China Overseas Ports interactive visualizes degrees of China’s overseas port ownership by types of investment across regions and time. It also evaluates the dual-use (commercial and military) potential of ports owned, constructed, or operated by ...

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CBN and TDP have been branded as Andhra party so much so that nobody wants to be seen embracing TDP openly (which is probably one of the reasons why TPCC chief Revanth Reddy who was Telangana TDP chief before jumping into Congress didn't utter anything during CBN's recent arrest). Atleast Kishan Re...

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now that all lists have been declared in rj, the following is the mood on the ground... based on the discussion of journalists: 1. rj many interesting things done by the bjp this time such as fielding sitting mps from many seats, have also fielded a new royal daughter, this time of jaipur, diya kuma...

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https://ecfr.eu/publication/strategic-interdependence-europes-new-approach-in-a-world-of-middle-powers/ A taxonomy of middle powers To build a more strategic approach to interdependence, Europeans have much to learn from the middle powers that are shaping the new order. With slight violence to the ...

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an exhaustive dod study on military and security development in prc, posting only some https://media.defense.gov/2023/Oct/19/2003323409/-1/-1/1/2023-MILITARY-AND-SECURITY-DEVELOPMENTS-INVOLVING-THE-PEOPLES-REPUBLIC-OF-CHINA.PDF https://i.ibb.co/K2RBBbQ/ch2.png CHINA’S MILITARY LEADERSHIP As the mili...

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since i have been watching too much cricket as of late, i have an analogy of the chinese rule the earlier jeming and jintao's governments were strong partnerships to build innings on a difficult wicket many from the team gained an illicit advantage by proximity to these 2 innings to save the match (...

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from the above paper by ramana sir, i would put forward the following points: the current xjp government is a rearguard government in action the power at the top is cyclical and vacillates between collective rule and stongman added into this is the rule of open and capitalism with chinese characteri...

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The date of the accident that is circulating is August 21. in that case, this then is one of the frontrunner for the causes, though such harsh stricture (disappearance from the public for close to 2 months now) against routine stratagems bungling by the lower hierarchy is an interesting data point,...

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^reports say that he has been missing from the public eye since late august, the nuke sub incident is mid to late September I think

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li shangfu removed as defence minister https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3239030/li-shangfu-axed-defence-minister-second-china-leadership-shock State news agency Xinhua reported on Tuesday that Li had been removed, without explanation. It came after weeks of speculation over the fate ...

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https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099450403272313885/pdf/IDU046bbbd8d06cc0045a708397004cbf4d2118e.pdf Pakistan is one of the most important participants in China’s Belt and Road Initiative. It faced principal and interest payments to Chinese creditors worth 10.2 bn USD between 2013 and 20...

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New paper trying to understand Xi Jinping https://t.co/ed8YNedLEi excellent paper ramana sir, recommend sticking it to the first page of this thread This “victorious Xi” thesis raises one important question: Where did Xi find the political support for his strongman ambitions? It is puzzling that Xi...

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... 3. Yes i do observe lots of emotion & anger in youth/ mid age men with entry level education. Who do not possess intellectualism of you or many of this forum members. Those humbly educated rural or semi-rural energetic HINDU folks do not calculate geopolitics / cost benefit analysis / game ...

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Every single one of them is rabidly anti Modi. it might depend on how you define the uc, imo: the bhumihars are the strongest supporters of the bjp, followed by the rajput, kayastha and then brahmin, in that order, problem is of the 4, kayastha are numerically insignificant and can only realistical...

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are we seriously talking about getting to the Middle East and setting things right? The conflicts over there have been going on for centuries if not longer, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basus_War The Basus (or Basous) War (often written al-Basus War; Arabic: حرب البسوس ḥarb al-basūs) was a 40...

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https://i.ibb.co/59XprXc/Kapl-9780593242803-epub3-002-r1.jpg some things of interest in the past couple of weeks leading to the situation first on 26.09, the first cabinet minister of israel to visit saudia https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/26/israeli-minister-arrives-in-saudi-arabia-in-first-e...

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https://nationalinterest.org/feature/clash-xivilizations-206852 In March 2023, Chinese president Xi Jinping launched the “Global Civilization Initiative” (GCI), his third such effort to build an international “community of common destiny”—the Chinese president’s euphemism for a world order in which...

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https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/09/impact-india-mideast-europe-corridor-extends-far-beyond-countering-china According to the memorandum of understanding signed on Sept. 9 by the European Union, France, Germany, India, Italy, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the United States, th...

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It is neither blindness nor kool-aid. This eltist Britshit is peddling an agenda on behalf of his paymaster. The above para of non-islamist officers is enough hint of it. Pity it didn't come sooner in the article. I would have stopped reading at that instant and saved my time. the article on its fa...

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the line between willful blindness and being drunk on kool-aid is very thin, it is hard to understand which is which for the commentators https://www.thecipherbrief.com/column/cipher-brief-expert-view/the-pakistan-armys-new-mission The other disturbing trend in Pakistan is the centrifugal pull of th...

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Adrija wrote: ↑23 Sep 2023 13:59 Gentle Brakshaks, would anyone have access to the FT article published today on Modiji

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just archive my good man, there is no need in this day and age to patronise any journalism that you actively do not want to patronise,

https://archive.is/T9qS6

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There is credible evidence to suggest that Justinder had joined the Khalistan Tiger Force holy sht, big if true, good work on clandestinely obtaining this obscure image, please share the source as well, our nsa, the Canadian intelligence agency and interpol needs to be appraised of this serious sit...

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I would say that the past is convenient for us atm, when the west gets all high and mighty for any fukery not involving them, Iraq, Afghanistan, libyan are very promptly displayed, the west shuts up or hems and haws but is unable to give a response and all is forgiven, all their fud about wmds, chem...

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