India-Canada, Mexico and South America: News and Discussion

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@joannachiu

It took me all year to try to understand what’s happening in India with the ramping human rights violations and rising influence of Hindu nationalism. I interviewed dozens of experts. Here’s an explainer: https://thestar.com/news/canada/2020/12 ... s-why.html

https://twitter.com/joannachiu/status/1 ... 70944?s=20

Another Commie Chinese Canadian masquerading as protector of Hooman rights, blaming Evil Hindoos for happenings in India!
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Maybe the Indian government should voice concerns for the rights of native Canadians.
This is what comes up when I Googled "native canadian land rights oil and gas"

"PM Modi had said: “I would be remiss if I didn’t start by recognizing the news coming from Canada about the protest by 1st Nations Peoples. The situation is concerning. We are all very worried about family and friends. I know that’s a reality for many of you. Let me remind you, India will always be there to defend the rights of peaceful protest.”

https://www.google.com/search?q=native+ ... e&ie=UTF-8
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Maybe this could be raised as well.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/ ... men-report
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That would be an infringement of :mrgreen: white privilege. Christian have an inherent right (literally god given) to critique Hindia. What is GoI?
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I witnessed the protests on two occasions this week in Toronto, the first being a largely drive by protest on a major city highway, followed by a protest outside the Indian consulate. There were instances of harassment reported by a handful of Indian citizens/PIO's who were at the Consulate to avail services. The consulate itself is housed inside an office block, so there is no real threat per se to the facility, or the employees based there.

On the second instance, a protest largely led by Khalistani groups repeated the drive by fashion from Brampton into Toronto via the same highway, there must have been a couple of thousand at best incessantly honking and waving Khalsa flags, stickers adorning Khalistan Zindabad on their cars. Some showed up in Humvees, Mercedes, Lambos, all to protest the reduction of socialist subsidies. After repeated number of complaints by the locals in the area, the local police asked them to move on.

Jaishankar not proceeding on his trip seemed a little immature to me, it was a foreign ministers meeting, not a bilateral one. Eventually we have to grow thick skin, none of these protests have any locus standi in India. Sure we can raise statements of support for indigenous communities who were threatened by the PM himself in February, or Canada's defence support to Azerbaijan etc but we don't have an ethnic connection to them, and it will become a free for all. It's no secret that JT's father PT was the architect of Khalistani immigration into Canada, he provided expedited citizenship, and hushed the investigation into the Kanishka bombing.

Liberals have traditionally used Gurdwaras here as fundraising centres, Khalistanis canvass door to door for donations every election cycle. If anything, it's him protecting his turf before Jagmeet Singh (NDP) tries to garner support in the community.
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After repeated number of complaints by the locals in the area, the local police asked them to move on.

What will the good neighbours do when they block the Gardiner Expressway? :shock:
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Jaishankar not proceeding on his trip seemed a little immature to me
Quite the opposite : India's MEA snubbing the Canada led event after issuing a demarche to the Canadian High Commissioner in India is an expression of significant displeasure by GoI. This has done two things: 1. Put increased focus and scrutiny on JT's stand, and that has led to articles being written about his duplicity opposing farmer subsidies in the WTO and making pro-farmer recent statements and has discredited DT's stand. 2. The Canadian led event on Covid will feel India's absence as we are an important player given our Pharma and Vaccine capacity - critical in the coming months, and will raise further questions & critiques among participants on why JT shot his mouth off against India.

Lastly, sends out a general message that India will not tolerate cr@p comments, even from the PM of a G8 nation.
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Cyrano wrote:Lastly, sends out a general message that India will not tolerate cr@p comments, even from the PM of a G8 nation.
JT's statements were paying lip service to his constituencies in BC, and Ontario, with an imminent mid-term poll around the corner in late 2021/22. He understands that domestic political gains far outweigh mending the relationship with Canada, also he has a very high representation of Khalistanis in his cabinet. What baffles me is the statement made by the Tories leader Erin O'Toole, he has vociferously argued for a strategic relationship with India.

I'm somewhat surprised that the MEA, and our Embassy led by one of the most senior diplomats did not work the phones after the first statement by JT. In the event there is a FTA between US & India (years away I would imagine), there will be negative consequences for them. I would have thought Jaishankar's trip would allow him to corner Champagne and clarify on their stand on their tacit approval to end any secessionist activities in 2015.
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sanjaykumar wrote:After repeated number of complaints by the locals in the area, the local police asked them to move on.

What will the good neighbours do when they block the Gardiner Expressway? :shock:
I dare say it was the affluent residents of Yorkville that worked the phones to their councillors, and the mayor as most of the menace was in the Bloor/Bay area.
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Anyone interested in understanding why Canadian Pappu is having bouts of verbal diarrhea!
Besides the pro Khali elements in his constituency....its also the self sufficiency in producing lentils, pulses, grains etc by India which is undoubtedly hurting the so called "Punjab-Extension" i.e. Kaneda
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mmasand wrote: I'm somewhat surprised that the MEA, and our Embassy led by one of the most senior diplomats did not work the phones after the first statement by JT.
Delhi cant make itself more clearer - True-doo brings nothing to the table for India, other than a mild irritation with his antics.

A POTUS, Putin, Macron, Johnson does get better attention, because they don't allow themselves to be lead around by terror-loving nuts. If Canada wants to get itself treated seriously, the canadian voters should debate about True-doo's foreign policy disasters (including the comments about France) during election time and try figure out another path. But the voters (and even opposition) wont and hence True-doo is not going to shrug off the khalistani fleas off his back.

Expecting Indian MEA to care "explaining" GoI's POV on an internal matter of India with this fellow is passé. Maybe back in 80s or 90s, such stuff might have happened, when GoI thought a big-ass plane with innocents being bombed to death matters to Canada.
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Older article, but relevant on the trends in Canada. The total population of Canada is around 38 million (the US is around 300 million). If immigration to Canada goes on at this rate, Indian immigrants will out number Pakistanis and Khalistanis by a wide margin. New immigrants usually stay away from politics for some time and concentrate on career, you can expect to see a great change in the decades to come. Doctors, engineers and scientists will also have a financial clout far above the usual Pak immigrant. In the meantime PM Modi will continue with the cold shoulder.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartande ... 8aed6c2b5f
Indians Immigrating To Canada At An Astonishing Rate
Stuart Anderson, Senior Contributor, Feb 3, 2020

Motivated by more restrictive immigration policies under the Trump administration and the difficulty of obtaining green cards in the United States, the number of Indians obtaining permanent residence in Canada has more than doubled since 2016. Given current trends, Indian scientists and engineers will likely continue to see Canada as an attractive alternative location to make their careers and raise a family.
The number of Indians who became permanent residents in Canada increased from 39,340 in 2016 to 80,685 in 2019, through the first 11 months of 2019, an increase of more than 105%, according to a National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) analysis of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada data. Full-year Canadian statistics will likely show more than 85,000 Indian immigrants in 2019.
What are the reasons for this stunning increase in immigration from India to Canada? “Canada is benefiting from a diversion of young Indian tech workers from U.S. destinations, largely because of the challenges of obtaining and renewing H-1B visas and finding a reliable route to U.S. permanent residence,” said Peter Rekai, founder of the Toronto-based immigration law firm Rekai LLP, in an interview.
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Indian immigrants already out number the Khalistanis. They are called Sikhs.
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sanjaykumar wrote:Indian immigrants already out number the Khalistanis. They are called Sikhs.
There must be all but 20-30k Khalistani sypathisers in the country, Sikhs who have immigrated in the last two decades far exceed them. They have even built their own basement Gurdwaras so as not be ostracized by the Khalistanis. The Mayor of Brampton understands this, and despite the daily demonstrations there, has tactfully avoided making any statements to appease them.
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sanjaykumar wrote:Indian immigrants already out number the Khalistanis. They are called Sikhs.
Can you guys stop using K word for every thing? This is preposterous
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Cyrano wrote:
Jaishankar not proceeding on his trip seemed a little immature to me
Quite the opposite : India's MEA snubbing the Canada led event after issuing a demarche to the Canadian High Commissioner in India is an expression of significant displeasure by GoI. This has done two things: 1. Put increased focus and scrutiny on JT's stand, and that has led to articles being written about his duplicity opposing farmer subsidies in the WTO and making pro-farmer recent statements and has discredited DT's stand. 2. The Canadian led event on Covid will feel India's absence as we are an important player given our Pharma and Vaccine capacity - critical in the coming months, and will raise further questions & critiques among participants on why JT shot his mouth off against India.

Lastly, sends out a general message that India will not tolerate cr@p comments, even from the PM of a G8 nation.
The benchmark should be that if a country other then P5 member barks unnecessarily then India should issue a statement for that country to check its total GDP, compare it to india and mind its own business. The countries that i hate the most in this regards are New Zealand, Canada and those that comprise Scandinavia.
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sanjaykumar wrote:Indian immigrants already out number the Khalistanis. They are called Sikhs.
Please do not call Sikhs Khalistanis.
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mmasand wrote:
sanjaykumar wrote:Indian immigrants already out number the Khalistanis. They are called Sikhs.
There must be all but 20-30k Khalistani sypathisers in the country, Sikhs who have immigrated in the last two decades far exceed them. They have even built their own basement Gurdwaras so as not be ostracized by the Khalistanis. The Mayor of Brampton understands this, and despite the daily demonstrations there, has tactfully avoided making any statements to appease them.
This is a very important point. The sikhs who immigrated in the last few years far outnumber the Khalistani sympathizers. Religious institutions are also separate from what I could understand when I visited Surrey, B.C. Some preachers/institutions intentionally preach hatred ( and keep increasing the level of hatred to keep up with competing hate institutions) to keep their flock together and keep their agenda alive.
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I love JusReign. His YouTube episodes are an excellent window into the Sikh community of Canada.
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https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-ne ... jbB9L.html
Canada govt objected to military decision to cancel training with Chinese Army: Reports
The Peoples Liberation Army had been invited for joint training at the Canadian Forces Base at Petawawa in the province of Ontario.
Anirudh Bhattacharyya, Hindustan Times, Toronto, Dec 10, 2020

The Trudeau government invited the Chinese army for training in Canada last year just months after the arbitrary arrests of two Canadians, including a former diplomat, and was miffed when the military cancelled the drill, media reports have said citing documents.
The Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) had been invited for joint training at the Canadian Forces Base (CFB) at Petawawa in the province of Ontario. The exercise was cancelled by Canadian Armed Forces to the chagrin of the government, according to the documents cited by the Globe and Mail, Rebel News and other media outlets.
A department of defence official stated in a document, “The winter training will not take place this winter. Future options have not been considered.”
Instructions from a general were that the department “tailor a message” that the training could not be conducted “at this time.”
However, a note from the Trudeau government to the Armed Forces indicated its displeasure over the cancellation. “Given the heightened scrutiny, any decision by Canada to reduce-cut ties should be carefully considered to avoid sending any unhelpful or unintended messages,” it said.
In a Memorandum for Action, Global Affairs Canada, the country’s foreign ministry, noted that the Canadian Armed Forces’ Chief of Defence Staff had “unilaterally elected not to proceed” with the 2019 programme.
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https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-ne ... 0oHVL.html
Trudeau govt didn’t want to cancel military drill with China, reveal secret papers
Secret Canadian documents reveal that the government was concerned that China could interpret cancellation of the military engagement as a retaliatory move related to the Meng Wanzhou case.
HT Correspondent, Dec 10, 2020

An aide of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had opposed a move by the Canadian military last year to cancel training with China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) due to security concerns, according to a media report.
Citing secret government documents, The Globe and Mail newspaper reported on Wednesday that Canada’s global affairs department pushed back against a decision by Gen Jonathan Vance, Chief of Defence Staff, to cut interactions with the PLA.
Officials at the global affairs department, including then deputy minister of foreign affairs Ian Shugart, were alarmed that Vance had cancelled winter military exercises with the PLA in 2019. Shugart is now clerk of the Privy Council, Canada’s top bureaucrat, who reports directly to Trudeau.
The newspaper’s report came against the backdrop of growing global concern over China’s increasingly assertive and aggressive actions, including the standoff with India along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). Canada is also locked in a diplomatic spat with India over Trudeau’s comments supporting the farmers’ protest in India, which the external affairs ministry has described as interference in the country’s internal affairs.
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This was about Chinese army learning combat in cold weather and there was opposition from the US against this training. Also see https://www.opindia.com/2020/12/china-f ... r-warfare/
In BRF we always bring the presence of Canadian Sikhs in every discussion we have about Trudeau and his behavior towards India. But this offer to train Chinese army to fight in cold weather shows that his dislike of India may be deeper than an election tactics and a desire to hold on to power.
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Repeated failures
The ongoing India-China standoff yet again points to Intelligence lapses amid reports that the Chinese got winter warfare training from Canadian forces

Rebel News, a Canadian far right news network, has obtained 34 pages of documents called ‘China Files’ establishing that Canada has been training the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in cold-weather warfare at its military institution in Kingston, bases in Ontario and at the Canadian Forces College, Toronto. Further, it sent to China flag-rank Canadian officers to teach PLA officers tactics and techniques in high-altitude fighting. Nearly 200 Canadian soldiers participated in the October 2019 World Military Games at Wuhan and Canadian sailors and naval ships celebrated the PLA Navy’s 70th Raising Day at Qindhao. Defence and security relations between the countries were particularly active during 2018-19 despite the Chinese taking two Canadian civilians hostage. It seems that the Canadian Government under Premier Justin Trudeau was keen to maintain warm relations and not to displease the Chinese overlooking objections raised by the Trump Administration over unintended consequences of transfer of knowledge and information to the Chinese though Canada’s Five Eyes partners were not perturbed.


The news network obtained redacted documents, some classified secret and for Canadian eyes only, 19 months after it sought them on a Freedom of Information request but as the documents were not properly redacted, they were legible. When there was resistance to implementing the exchange programmes — the Chief of Defence Staff put on hold one joint section-level exercise in winter warfare in Canada — orders were given that no training was to be suspended without consulting the Chief of Privy Council. These documents, made public last week, clearly tell India that the Chinese had been preparing for high-altitude warfare since 2018-19 — especially in the winter of 2019 — and have received training, expertise and equipment from Canadian Defence Forces during bilateral military exchanges in China and Canada. The Trudeau Government’s record of sensitivity towards India’s security concerns has at best been lax, given that its Defence Minister and Leader of the Opposition are both Khalistani sympathisers.

These revelations fit in neatly with the US-China Economic, Security Review Commission report of December 1 which describes the eight-month-long India-China standoff along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) as the most severe border

crisis in decades and accuses China of planning the Galwan clash with the blessings of Defence Minister Gen Weng Fei. Two weeks before the clash, Global Times warned that India would suffer a devastating

blow if it got involved in the

US-China rivalry. The report notes that while the “Chinese Government might deem its Ladakh venture to acquire territory a success, it failed to dissuade India from building infrastructure or aligning with the US, where results have been counterproductive”. The Indian Government, though, has denied both loss of any

territory or alignment with the US. Although no clinching evidence was presented in the report, tell-tale signs were there that China was working to a premeditated grand design of forcibly altering the LAC in Ladakh for which preparations had started in mid-2019, if

not earlier, as the ‘China Files’ indicate. These predate the Mahabalipuram/Chennai

summit and are akin to Prime Minister AB Vajpayee’s historic Lahore visit coinciding

with Gen Musharraf’s planning of Kargil.

Lies and deceit are ingrained in the Chinese Communist Party and PLA’s psyche. Foreign Minister S Jaishankar has said that the Chinese have given India five differing explanations for deploying large forces along the LAC. In its latest response to Jaishankar speaking at a virtual session with Sydney-based Lowy Institute where he blamed China for the standoff and breakdown in relations, Beijing Foreign Office repeated its standard response: “The merits of the situation are very clear. India is totally responsible for the situation.” The standoff has hit an impasse with no prospect of any thaw this winter; the Chinese and Indian tanks are just 20 metres apart near Kailash range. The Chinese cancelled the joint release of a stamp on the 70th anniversary of bilateral relations. The date for the ninth military dialogue has not been communicated by Beijing and while channels of communication remain in suspended animation, both sides are talking at each other.

Russia, which enjoys the best of relations with both India and China, has entered the fray not in helping to break the logjam but adding fuel to the fire by accusing the

West of “anti-China games”. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov set the cat among the pigeons by saying that the western powers were promoting Indo-Pacific Strategy and Quadrilateral Security Dialogue to engage India in anti-China games and also trying to undermine Russia’s partnership with India. His remarks were directed at the US which has been threatening India with sanctions under the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) for the purchase of $5.4 billion S400 air defence system from Russia. This is a direct challenge to India’s strategic autonomy and one of the sticking points in the India-US Defence Partnership on which the Trump Administration remained discreetly silent.

Although India is still sitting on the fence in deference to China, it has indicated to Beijing both in words and deeds the options available to it for crossing the Rubicon. US Democratic lawmaker Mark Warner, speaking last week at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, said: “India should join a ‘Coalition of the Willing’ with the US and other democracies to confront China’s model of State-sponsored authoritarian capitalism.” Just as Trudeau wants to be nice to China, India does not wish to offend Beijing as it cannot independently deter Chinese coercion on the Himalayan frontiers due to conspicuous power asymmetry.

Jaishankar’s continuing reliance on diplomacy stems from ground reality and realpolitik. When asked by a journalist about India’s reaction to Chinese intrusions being diplomatic rather than a pushback, he rebutted that “there has been an enormous military response in our force deployment”, deflecting the initial omissions of any counteractions following delayed detection of intrusions. The Government is making a virtue of necessity in its counter-deployment. In the same interview, he said the standoff could go the Sumdorong Chu way (1986) which took nine years to resolve. But then while the geopolitical context and limited scale of deployment were vastly different, India was tactically in a commanding position having surrounded the PLA intrusion at Wangdung which was beyond the Indian limit of patrolling. Still Wangdung was an Intelligence lapse!

The Intelligence and operational failures on the LAC this year are compounded by the Rebel News revelations of the Chinese getting winter warfare training from the Canadian armed forces in 2018-19. In a similar situation in 1984, India got a tip-off that Pakistan was buying snow clothing in Europe and pre-emptively occupied Siachen. The last GOC Ladakh Sub-Area, Maj Gen Yash Mor who was there at the time of intrusions, lamented this week about “our repeated failures to read Intelligence”.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada ... -1.5838658
Canada's ties to China's military underscore the weird contradictions in its foreign policy
The military and diplomats were at odds over the PLA training program — and no one should be surprised
Murray Brewster · CBC News ·Dec 12, 2020

It's been obvious for some time that there is something weird about the way Canada approaches its relationship with China — a disconnect brought into sharp relief this week by the news that Global Affairs and the Department of National Defence were not on the same page when it came to military ties and training involving the People's Liberation Army.
In some respects, the volcanic online political eruption which followed stories in The Globe and Mail and other media outlets, based on exclusive access to information documents, was predictable, as was the flurry of finger-pointing in the House of Commons on Thursday and Friday.
Diplomats were alarmed when Gen. Jonathan Vance, the country's senior military commander, cancelled winter military exercises with the PLA in 2019, fretting that it might aggravate Beijing or make the lives of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor even worse.
It makes for fire-breathing memes, sizzling copy and wonderful political theatre.
A policy of incoherence
What's missing, though, is a recognition that Canada's policy toward a rising China has been contradictory and incoherent for almost a decade, maybe more, said Charles Burton, a political scientist at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ont. and a respected China expert at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
"Cabinets were always split on China, whether it's Liberal or Conservative," Burton said, referring to debates more than three decades ago during the government of former prime minister Brian Mulroney. It is more urgent than ever, in the context of an increasingly belligerent and assertive China, to present a united political front, he added. "This is really about the defence of our sovereignty and security on matters over which there is consensus across the political spectrum in Canada," he said.
Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, in an attempt at political damage control late this week, made a point of saying that Chinese troops are no longer training for winter warfare at Garrison Petawawa, Ont. He also (rather meekly) noted that the exchange and training program with the PLA was instituted in August 2013 under the Conservatives while defence critic James Bezan, one of the most vocal and fiery opponents this week, was parliamentary secretary of defence. Bezan's retort was along the lines of that was then, this is now.
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As Indo-Pacific shapes up in the decade starting from 2021, time for India to reach out to Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile on the Western shores of South America and bordering the Pacific Ocean.
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Slightly older article but still relevant. Apologize if already posted:
https://diplomatist.com/2020/08/01/what ... relations/
What Lies Ahead for India-Latin America Relations?
by Caio Henrique Dias Duarte - 1 August, 2020

The scenario
While 2020 will see the international agenda almost entirely taken by the COVID-19 crisis, 2021 can be an year for the repositioning of relations and interests in global politics. In this, India can play a key role in filling cooperation gaps in Latin America, provided it understands the region’s plural differences and needs and acts accordingly.
As the dispute between the United States and China for world markets, especially in the field of technology, grows more aggressive each year, Latin America – its many blocs and regions, with different degrees of integration – is divided and disputed between both powers, with the European Union securing some important trade footholds in the region, such as with the EU-Mexico Free Trade Agreement. Developing Indian economic ties with countries of the region would allow India to not only secure new markets but strengthen its position in expanding technological partnerships and diversifying its sources of commodities and improving its energy security, as well as its political position.
As India already holds a soft power presence in the region, it could benefit from the position it holds as a third-path, as well as its untainted reputation in comparison with the US and China in the region. Latin-American politicians are quite wary of the political tool proximity with Washington might take on their own endeavours – the failed FTAA being a recent example of this – and China’s debt diplomacy hasn’t gone unnoticed in the region as well, even though Uruguay became the latest member of its Belt and Road Initiative.
Nonetheless, just as one is aware that an orientalist approach can be disastrous in doing business with India, not taking into consideration Latin America’s divides can result in a loss of opportunities. India will have to tread carefully into how it builds partnerships, as some deals might hinder new partnerships. An example is a delicate balance within the Mercosur, with Argentina and Brazil, now political opposites, being able to hinder initiatives promoted by one another side. The already-existing proximity with Chile and Mexico could provide for safer, although smaller, footholds in the region.
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ramana wrote:As Indo-Pacific shapes up in the decade starting from 2021, time for India to reach out to Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile on the Western shores of South America and bordering the Pacific Ocean.

Why understanding the Geo-Politics is important?

Connect the dots.

- China is blackmailing countries in the name of Covid vaccine supply

- China put pressure on Paraguay to ditch Taiwan if they want Covid vaccine.

- Paraguay approached Taiwan

- Taiwan dialled India

- India sends Covid vaccine to Paraguay

- India denied any pressure game BUT ready to open an embassy in Paraguay.

Meanwhile, since this news broke, there is a massive outrage on social media on Covid Vaccine availability/Diplomacy of India.... Specially by Congress,AAP and Left parties.....any guess why??

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https://biv.com/article/2021/10/canada- ... ted-waters
Canada-China relations enter uncharted waters
Opinions differ as to what happens now in the wake of Meng Wanzhou’s release
Chuck Chiang, October 5, 2021

So the Meng Wanzhou saga is over. What now?
That is the question that many Canadians are pondering, now that the Huawei Technologies CFO has returned to China after reaching a deferred prosecution agreement with U.S. authorities that ended a three-year extradition fight in Vancouver and Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor – the two Canadians held by Chinese authorities since Meng’s December 1, 2018, arrest – are back in Canada.
BIV spoke to three experts – all with extensive experience doing business with, and in, China over the past few decades. The only agreement, it seems, is that Canada’s fractured relationship with its second largest trading partner will not magically revert to pre-2017 levels overnight. Beyond that, the experts expressed dramatically different views of how Meng’s release affects the future path of Canada-China ties.
Sarah Kutulakos, executive director and COO, Canada China Business Council
The speed at which the Meng case resolved itself on September 24 caught most observers off guard, including Kutulakos.
While she agreed that there will not be an immediate bounceback of Canada-China relations following the nadir that has been the last three years, she noted that the Canada China Business Council’s (CCBC) membership is optimistic about the development and what it means for the business community.
“It is fabulous news because it opens the door to the resumption of normal economic and trade – as well as just bilateral – relations,” Kutulakos said. “Not everything stopped while this dispute was in play; however, anything that had links to positive bilateral relations – whether you need government support or for a Chinese business partner to be assured about working with a Canadian company – that did get affected.”
Kutulakos is especially hopeful that, with the Meng case out of the way, Ottawa and Beijing can discuss the export restrictions facing canola in the Chinese market. Meanwhile, she noted that longer-term planning for how to engage the Chinese market, which had been derailed by the Meng case, can now resume without the uncertainty caused by the detainment.
Kutulakos acknowledged that Canadians’ opinion of China has soured since the Meng case started because of the arbitrary arrests of the two Michaels. But she also noted that a large number of Canadian businesses have big stakes in the Chinese market, whether as exporters or importers. For those companies, the resolution of the Meng extradition is good news regardless of the scale of immediate impact.
“What we have found was, if you are in line with China’s policies – whether it’s the Five-Year Plan, Healthy China 2025, and the increased consumption – you are feeling pretty good about China,” Kutulakos said. “A lot of people’s business in 2020 shrank because of COVID, but their China business did not because that market kept growing.”
Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, former member, Canada-China Joint Committee on Science and Technology
The CCBC’s optimism isn’t shared by another veteran of Canada-China affairs. McCuaig-Johnston has worked on the China-Canada tech sector file since 1979 and was a self-described “friend of China” before Beijing’s policies under current president Xi Jinping became more aggressive, including Huawei’s push onto the global 5G stage.
For McCuaig-Johnston, the resolution of the Meng case clarified Beijing’s position of using hostage diplomacy to resolve disputes – demonstrated in China’s decision to release the two Michaels almost immediately after Meng’s case was dismissed.
“What China has done is it sent a message to every country in the world that, yes, this is a hostage-taking,” McCuaig-Johnston said. “Every other country is now on notice that, if they step out of line from what Beijing wants, their citizens could be detained in the same way. That’s a very serious message to be sending, and that makes it even more important for all like-minded countries … to collaborate and come up with ways to confronting China so they can’t get away with this.”
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Political Map of South America

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Will become important in this decade.
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Mexico has officially nationalized its lithium industry after the Senate approved by 87 votes in favour, 20 against and 16 abstentions the mining reform proposed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which gives the state exclusive rights over the battery metal.
The President said his administration will review all lithium contracts, which casts a shadow of doubt over projects already being developed in the country, including the one held by Bacanora Lithium (LON: BCN) in the country’s northwest. The company, owned by China’s Genfeng Lithium, owns the giant Sonora project, which is slated to produce 35,000 tonnes of the metal per year starting in 2023.
The law would likely bring trade tensions with the country’s northern neighbours as it is said to violate the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).

Kenneth Smith Ramos, who headed technical negotiations for the now defunct North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), told local media that declaring lithium a strategic mineral is an issue as lithium was not designated as such when the three nations signed the accord.
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The warning comes as US senators called on President Joe Biden to take action over the “aggression” of AMLO’s Morena party administration toward US companies with investments in the Latin American country.

In a letter, republican Bill Hagerty and nine other senators said US companies have been impacted by protectionist policies, which the senators claim threaten the predictability of Mexico’s business climate.

“This is further underscored by the Mexican senate’s recent passage of a bill to nationalize lithium mining and extraction,” the letter said.

Republican and democratic members of congress have raised concerns to Biden’s administration regarding AMLO’s “departures from the economic and legal norms that govern US-Mexican relations and his assault against the US-Mexico-Canada [trade] agreement (USMCA),” the letter added.
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ANY CHANCE OF MEXICO RECLAIMING NEW MAXICO AND APRT OF CALIFORNIA?
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rsingh wrote:ANY CHANCE OF MEXICO RECLAIMING NEW MAXICO AND APRT OF CALIFORNIA?
Time to bring Freedom to Mexico.

Heck if there are huge deposits in Mexico then Murica can claim el Mexico as the 51st or 52nd (i dont know how many states are there) state.

Illegal immigration problem solved... and so also the cost of building the wall.

Win-win-win for all.. except maybe the chinese
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Shared some thoughts on the occasion of the 37th anniversary of the Kanishka Bombing by Canada based terrorists

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Talwinder Singh Parmar had been on the run from Indian authorities since 1981 and and had found refuge in Canada. In 1982, India issued a warrant for Parmar’s arrest for six charges of murder stemming from the killing of men of Punjab Police in Ludhiana & notified Canada that he was a wanted terrorist. However, Canada refused to extradite him.

Soon thereafter, BlueStar and subsequent massacre of Sikhs in Delhi followed. The Khalistanis in Canada started plotting revenge.

In late 1984, at least two informers reported to authorities on the first abortive plot to bomb Air India Flight 182, which flew out of Montreal’s Mirabel International Airport at that time. In August 1984, the known criminal Gerry Boudreault claimed that Talwinder Parmar showed him a suitcase stuffed with $200,000, payment to plant a bomb. He refused to do so.

Then in September, in an attempt to get his sentence for theft and fraud reduced, Harmail Singh Grewal of Vancouver told the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) of the plot to bomb the flight from Montreal.

What did the Canadians do? They fcuking DISMISSED these two reports pointing to the SAME plot from two UNRELATED sources as UNRELIABLE.

Finally, in early 1985, the CSIS obtained a court order to place Parmar under surveillance for one year. On 09 June 1985, a police informer in Hamilton reported that Parmar and Bagri had visited the Malton Sikh Gurudwara, warning the faithful that “it would be unsafe” to fly Air India.

The CSIS / RCMP couldn’t have asked for any more red flags pointing towards a plot to bomb an Air India flight out of Canada. But nope, nothing was done.

Ultimately, the Kanishka (pictured above) would get blown apart near Ireland, taking 329 souls with it, at the hands of terrorists based out of Canada, with bombs assembled in Canada. 268 of the victims were Canadian citizens.

What followed was an investigation that still continues to this day in some respects, uncovering utter incompetence on part of Canadian authorities at best, and wilful / malicious oversight at worst.

Much has been written about that, so I’ll cover only some basic, glaring lacunae.

As has been mentioned earlier, Parmar was under surveillance since early 1985. Late in the afternoon of June 4, 1985, CSIS surveillance teams followed Parmar’s maroon car as he drove to pick up his friend Inderjit Singh Reyat from his home in Duncan. From Reyat’s home, three men, one of whom has never been identified, drove to a clearing in the woods around the town. CSIS agents Larry Lowe &Lynne Jarrett soon heard a loud blast.

It was the terrorists testing the detonation system for the bombs. The agents reported it as a shotgun blast.
What is even more glaring is that based on Indian agencies’ inputs, on 01 Jun 1985 Air India’s Mumbai office sent a telex message to the airline’s offices worldwide warning of “the likelihood of sabotage attempts being undertaken by Sikh extremists by placing time/delay devices, etc., in the aircraft or registered baggage.”

Air India’s Montréal office passed on the information to the RCMP.

A good, professional agency would have reconciled it with inputs it already had, and upped its vigil. But then it was the RCMP. They chose to not only NOT forward the input to CSIS, but not even to THEIR OWN internal dept responsible for preparing threat assessments.

The RCMP were already aware of possible plots to target Air India aircraft, yet they dismissed even this input from Air India itself as a ‘ploy’ by the national carrier of a third world, commie aligned nation (remember, Afghan ‘Jihad’ was then underway) to secure additional security FOR FREE!
The RCMP didn’t lie or hide facts. They merely provided ‘erroneous’ information!

This was not the only part of the aviation security lapses by the Canadian law enforcement agencies, Justice Major stated. He referred to one summer employee, Brian Simpson, who ‘boarded Flight 182 at Pearson International Airport in Toronto without detection on the afternoon of June 22, 1985’ and this person ‘had complete access to the aircraft from the cockpit to the equipment at the rear.’

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Canad is negotiating an FTA with India,
Maybe we can add clauses to get them to come clean about Kanishka and the Khalistanis being harbored in Canada.
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Ripudaman Singh Malik, 1985 Air India bombing accused, shot dead in Canada
Ripudaman Singh Malik, who was acquitted in the 1985 Air India bombing case, was shot dead in Surrey in Canada’s British Columbia on Thursday morning, Canadian news outlets reported.
CBC News cited witness accounts to report that three shots were heard and Malik was hit in the neck. Media reports quoted the local police as confirming that shots were fired at around 9.30 am local time and that a man succumbed to injuries at the scene. They said it appeared to be a targeted shooting.
Early this year, before the Punjab elections in February, Malik had written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, thanking him for the steps taken for the welfare of the Sikhs. Listing the various initiatives by the BJP, including reopening of the 1984 riots cases, he had warned against an orchestrated attempt to defame the Prime Minister.
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Interesting, that once an anti India person becomes neutral. He is removed from the scene.
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Live by the sword, die by the sword. Karma will always get you in the long run.
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2 Arrested, Charged In Killing Of Man Acquitted In Air India Bombing Case
Tanner Fox, a 21-year-old from Abbotsford, British Columbia, a city about 75 kilometres east of Vancouver and 23-year-old Jose Lopez, from the Vancouver suburb of New Westminster, were both arrested on Tuesday, said the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) at a news conference in Surrey on Wednesday.

Police were tight-lipped, only saying the two were arrested peacefully in their respective cities and that collaboration between police helped lead to the arrests, the Toronto Star newspaper reported.
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Woman Sikh police officer speaks on fate of 40 Punjabi youths who tried to ‘intimidate’ Canadian cop on duty

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/diasp ... uty-432678

Sarbjit Sangha alleged that the moment the ‘notice of order’ was issued by the police officer, the youths started thumping the bonnet of the police officer’s vehicle and also blocked his way. In the video, they can be seen trying to trespass into his vehicle. There were about 40 Punjabi youths, mostly students, who misbehaved with him.

Sangha said the investigations are under way and they have not made any arrests so far. She said that they were in the process to identify the youth and will act as per the law. As far as deportation was concerned, she said no one has been deported as of now, but they may face it as the police frame the charges which are “serious”.

When asked if it was legal to ask for the badge number of the officer, she explained that around 15-20 people shouting for the badge number and trying to intimidate the officer was no way of asking adding that all the officers badge numbers are written on the uniform.. Also, she added, the name of the investigation officer and his badge number was mentioned in the challan ticket that was given to the driver.




Here are some more Punjabis in election mode.




I getting ashamed of being identified as a Punjabi.
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This is rare if not a first for the Toronto Star, reporting on a Hindu temple in Wisconsin, in an article calling it Dharmic. Hard to believe they would have done this fully of their own volition. A more typical article from the Star, or carried by the Star from some agency, would be about caste/sect/gender/corruption/ exploitation issues in a temple. So it's very possible that someone or some group prodded if not paid, the Star to show this piece.

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2022 ... mples.html
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sanjaykumar wrote:Woman Sikh police officer speaks on fate of 40 Punjabi youths who tried to ‘intimidate’ Canadian cop on duty

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/diasp ... uty-432678

Sarbjit Sangha alleged that the moment the ‘notice of order’ was issued by the police officer, the youths started thumping the bonnet of the police officer’s vehicle and also blocked his way. In the video, they can be seen trying to trespass into his vehicle. There were about 40 Punjabi youths, mostly students, who misbehaved with him.

Sangha said the investigations are under way and they have not made any arrests so far. She said that they were in the process to identify the youth and will act as per the law. As far as deportation was concerned, she said no one has been deported as of now, but they may face it as the police frame the charges which are “serious”.

When asked if it was legal to ask for the badge number of the officer, she explained that around 15-20 people shouting for the badge number and trying to intimidate the officer was no way of asking adding that all the officers badge numbers are written on the uniform.. Also, she added, the name of the investigation officer and his badge number was mentioned in the challan ticket that was given to the driver.


I getting ashamed of being identified as a Punjabi.
I have just come back from Canada after a short trip.
Brampton is a suburb of Punjab and the idiotic attitude of the people they have imported en-masse as students.
There was a video circulating of a mob of Punjabi students fighting. There were swords involved.
I believe 120 approx were deported.
I think this is the link, I can't sign into it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2oRB4Ccnf8 the date coincides.
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Speaking to my relations there. The situation seems to be that the khalistani/Jat element basically intimidate others. There are 36 Jat controlled gurudwaras, all of them khalistani (so I was told) and they basically try to take over control of other community caste temples.
This has led to friction with the Ramgharia and Ravidass communities.
The Ravidass communities no longer consider themselves part of the Sikh faith and have replaced the SGGS. The Vienna Temple shooting also contributed to this.

I also heard quite a lot of "The Hindu's are stealing our water" nonsense, but you just can't reason with them.
Their families seem to have sold their land in Punjab, immigrated to Canada and they buy the big houses and the big cars and just carry on as if they are in a village.
Same backward mentality.
I really hope they are deported, this will serve as a warning to others.
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