Bharat Rakshak

Published on 17 Apr 2015

Since joining the Indian Foreign Service in 1970, Shyam Saran has been India's Ambassador to Myanmar, Indonesia and Nepal and High Commissioner to Mauritius. As a Joint Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office in 1991-92, he advised the Prime Minister on foreign policy, nuclear, and defense related

pankajs wrote:If you have time to waste but does give some insight into American exceptionalism, etc

The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles and Their Secret World War (Book)

Published on 4 Nov 2013

Stephen Kinzer's book provides us with a glimpse into the overt and covert policies of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and CIA Director Allen Dulles during the Eisenhower administration and how their actions and "secret world war" shaped and changed the trajectory of 6 countries and created a pattern of interventions that benefited U.S. interests that linger with us until today.

The principal themes of Asia and Western Dominance are easily enumerated. In Panikkar's own words, "the four hundred and fifty years which began with the arrival of Vasco da Gama in Calicut (in 1498), and ended with the withdrawal of British forces from India in 1947 and of the European navies from China in 1949, constitute a clearly marked epoch of history." He accordingly dubbed the period, "the Vasco da Gama epoch".

"The period of European control of the States of Asia," he wrote, "is a dividing line in their history, for both by resistance and by adaptation they have had to call forth new vitality and consciously adapt themselves to new ideas by which alone they were able gradually to recover their independence anti strength."

In his conclusion to the book, Panikkar states that "the Europe expansion tower the East began as a crusade . It was the beginning of one of the great Crusades, the Eat Crusade we might call it." We may say that Panikkar's intellectual response as it emerges in this volume is no less crusading in the substance as well as efficiency of his argumentative fire power.

From: namrata goswami <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 4:40 AM
Subject: Visit to India-China border
To: Peter Garretson


Dear Peter,

As part of my project on "International Security Audit: Great/Major
Power Cooperation or Competition in Asia" at the Institute for Defence
Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, which included a specific focus on the
Chinese territorial claim on the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh and
the border dispute there, I undertook an intensive month long field
study in the claimed state as well as the India-China border areas last
month (March 2011).

I specifically focused on the state of infrastructure and military
preparedness on both sides of the India-China border; local perceptions
of the Chinese claim, the issue of Tibet and the implications of my
research findings for major power relations in Asia (read India and
China)...

I was wondering if there are possibilities of making a presentation in
Washington DC based on my findings from the field trip on "Major Power
Relations in Asia: A Case Study of India-China"; also, if there is the
possibility of a short term project on this very critical issue in a
reputed think tank in Washington DC.

I will appreciate your advice.

best
Namrata

--

Namrata Goswami
MDJC-SIJC, M'Phil-Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
Development Enclave-1
Delhi Cantonment (Near USI)
New Delhi---110010
India
cell--09811440306,
email-- <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> ,[email protected]
website- <http://website--www.idsa.in/>
--http://www.idsa.in/profile/ngoswami

Dr. Goswami was a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), Washington. D.C from October 2012 to June 2013; Visiting Fellow at the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg (November–December 2010); the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), August 2006 to July 2010; and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Dialogue, La Trobe University, Melbourne from April to August 2009. She is a recipient of the Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship, 2012-2013.

From: "Garretson, Peter A Lt Col MIL USAF HAF/CK"
<[email protected]>
Date: April 5, 2011 6:04:27 PM CDT
To: Reva Bhalla <[email protected]>
Subject: Visit to India-China border
Something for you to stick in your quiver. Not too many people get to
make such site visits and interviews.

Zynda wrote:What is the end game of people like that Indian gal? Are they expecting that massa will "reward" them eventually with a GC/US Citizenship or get them in a position of authority in a covert massa founded "Think Tank" in India or in the US?

Published on 17 Apr 2015

We are pleased to invite you to a special U.S.-India business collaboration conference taking place at CSIS on April 15, co-organized by the Ananta Aspen Centre and the Wadhwani Foundation. This full-day conference will convene senior policymakers, business leaders, and other stakeholders from both countries with the aim of generating practical policy recommendations that enhance economic cooperation. The session will include expert-led discussions covering some of the Modi government's most important economic initiatives including the Smart Cities concept, the Make in India campaign, and Skills Development. The conference will feature a keynote address by India's Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley.

he United States of America (USA) has toppled Mauritius to become the top jurisdiction from where India is receiving the highest amount of foreign portfolio investment (FPI) into the equity markets.Mauritius lost out due to the uncertainty over the double tax avoidance treaty (DTAA) between India and Mauritius and constant threat of them being reviewed.

According to data available with the Securities and Exchange Board India (Sebi), total investment made by fund managers originating from US accounted for 32.47 per cent of the total portfolio investment in the country.

ramana wrote:Congress is not in power hence recirculation via Mauritius is on the wane. No big deal.
And Deccan Chronicle is a Congress hypester outlet.

Streamed live on 27 Mar 2015

In his first visit to Washington since taking over as the U.S. ambassador to India, Ambassador Richard Verma will discuss how the bilateral strategic partnership has moved into a new “strategic plus” phase, and what must be done to sustain the momentum that is transforming and deepening the two countries’ ties.

ABC NewsVerified account ‏@ABC

Pentagon asserts carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, cruiser USS Normandy moved into Arabian Sea over deteriorating security situation in Yemen.

The spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank have filled Washington with motorcades and traffic jams and loaded the schedules of President Obama and Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew. But they have also highlighted what some in Washington and around the world see as a United States government so bitterly divided that it is on the verge of ceding the global economic stage it built at the end of World War II and has largely directed ever since.

“It’s almost handing over legitimacy to the rising powers,” Arvind Subramanian, the chief economic adviser to the government of India, said of the United States in an interview on Friday. “People can’t be too public about these things, but I would argue this is the single most important issue of these spring meetings.”

Other officials attending the meetings this week, speaking on the condition of anonymity, agreed that the role of the United States around the world was at the top of their concerns.

Washington’s retreat is not so much by intent, Mr. Subramanian said, but a result of dysfunction and a lack of resources to project economic power the way it once did. Because of tight budgets and competing financial demands, the United States is less able to maintain its economic power, and because of political infighting, it has been unable to formally share it either.

Experts say that is giving rise to a more chaotic global shift, especially toward China, which even Obama administration officials worry is extending its economic influence in Asia and elsewhere without following the higher standards for environmental protection, worker rights and business transparency that have become the norms among Western institutions…

An overhaul of the I.M.F.’s governance structure, negotiated five years ago in large part by President Obama to give China and other emerging powers more authority commensurate with their growing economic strength, has languished in Congress. That, in part, propelled China to create its own multilateral lending institution in direct competition with the behemoths in Washington.

And as we’ve argued exhaustively, the AIIB represents far more than a competing infrastructure lender. It represents the ascendancy of Chinese foreign policy and also ushers in a new era wherein the yuan charts a gradual course towards reserve currency status.

For much of Washington and the world’s economic leaders, China’s creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank crystallized the choice policy makers face. Earlier this month, Lawrence Summers, who was a top economic adviser for both President Bill Clinton and Mr. Obama, declared that China’s establishment of a new economic institution and Washington’s failure to keep its allies from joining it signaled “the moment the United States lost its role as the underwriter of the global economic system.”

For years, China had threatened to establish institutions to rival those dominated by the West, like the I.M.F., World Bank and Asian Development Bank — or even to establish its currency, the renminbi, as a reserve currency to rival the dollar.

Dr. Chitra Rajan ‏@rajan_chitra_dr 2h2 hours ago

@sgurumurthy @MDPai05 US town gets 1st black mayor, 80% of its cops quit
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/worl ... w/47001934 …. They say our minorities are not safe

The election of the first black mayor in a small Missouri town has prompted an exodus of city employees, with 80 per cent of the town’s police force resigning before Mayor Tyrus Byrd even took office.

The Parma, Missouri city attorney, city clerk and water-treatment supervisor also stepped down before Ms Byrd officially took over the town last week, according to KFVS. Outgoing Mayor Randall Ramsey – who was in city government for 37 years – said the officers offered no notice before resigning.

It is not immediately clear why the officers quit the force, but the other administrators said their resignations were a result of “safety concerns”. Five of the department’s six officers stepped down, including two full-time and three part-time cops.

schinnas wrote:Habal ji, not disagreeing with what you are saying, but US also has some great aspects of its culture. Many US thinkers that shaped its society were openly influenced by India and the cultural and people to people links between US and India is ever increasing. If you leave out the EJ backed anti-India sentiment, US is the most open large country to Dharmic thoughts.

Martin Luther King Jr, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson are to name a few that comes to top of my mind. The new age movement and even in philosophy the Integral philosophy championed by Ken Wilber, etc., in recent times is heavily influenced by Bhuddist and Advaidic thoughts and works of Sri Aurobindo.

Tell me one instance of such cultural integration between India and China. Chinese are the most ruthless people in the world and they do not have evolved notions of one humanity, etc., that the New Age elites of the West has. China is not our natural partner in the long term. US will be - when it mends its ways and gives up supporting Sunni terrorism in the world.

US authorities said Sarao was not solely to be blamed for the crash, but ''his conduct was significantly responsible for the order unbalance, which was one of the conditions'' that led to the crash. They have sought Sarao's extradition from UK.

habal wrote:that may be true in long term when they get too powerful, but India has leverage against China. There is South Korea, Vietnam, Japan, Philipines, Australia and a whole lot of others in neighbourhood. So China will always be careful in their dealing with India. But supporting a non-asian power has bought the entire world to this sorry pass as we find state of mid-east today.

Now USA has nothing to lose being a continent and an ocean away from Asia, they can foment as many wars in Asia without any damage to them. They have a purely geo-political and resources play in Asia rather than a constructive one. China has much more stake in Asia in comparison, and if west wants to change status quo then let them support India instead of China.

LokeshC wrote: I must congrats all the brown skinned coconuts in the US admin for the fine job they are doing. Being a house slave must surely be paying off.

A Catholic convert raised by Hindu parents, Jindal has pivoted from his reputation as a policy wonk to make his religious beliefs the centerpiece of a possible White House campaign. He has courted evangelical Christians through meetings with pastors and aggressively promoted "religious liberty" in speeches.......
Gautam

Among the Republican field, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) has a well-known interest in foreign policy. Since his election to the U.S. Senate in 2010, he has served on the Foreign Affairs Committee, the Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. He has made his voice heard especially in the debate over policy toward Cuba, from where his parents fled. What’s lesser known, and a bit more surprising, is this: the junior senator from Florida also has a declared interest in India.Last September, coinciding with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington, Rubio penned an op-ed in the Daily Signal. He faulted the Obama administration for having “neglected” India after the George W. Bush administration’s opening to New Delhi. According to Rubio: “India, the world’s largest democracy, has the potential to become a key U.S. partner in the decades ahead.”
Rubio wants to strengthen security cooperation with India, especially through joint naval exercises bilaterally and with other partners, and collaboration on “emerging technologies” in missile defense and in space. He advocates deeper cooperation with India, not just in South Asia, but also by “encouraging greater Indian involvement” in the Middle East and East Asia. He notes India’s large Muslim population and its stake in combating radical Islam. Finally, he uses the example of Florida’s $1 billion annual exports to India to illustrate why trade ties with India’s large and growing market matter to Americans.
In addition, Rubio’s role as one of the bipartisan Senate “Gang of Eight” working toward comprehensive immigration reform established his leadership in an area of high priority for the Indian government. The Senate bill, which never found a companion in the House of Representatives and therefore languished, proposed an expansion of the annual limit on highly-skilled worker visas (H1-B visas). India, which already accounts for well more than half of all H1-Bs issued worldwide, would welcome the higher cap.India’s technology companies opposed the bill’s restrictions on these visas for companies with high percentages of H1-B workers. They saw the bill as unfairly penalizing their business model. That apart, Rubio favors welcoming highly skilled workers (“stapling green cards to their diplomas”) and expanding the H1-B program.The Daily Signal op-ed notwithstanding, Rubio has yet to engage deeply with the world’s largest democracy. Rubio has traveled to Afghanistan and Pakistan, but not yet visited India. Nor has he joined the Senate India Caucus, a bipartisan group thirty-five senators strong. Though he met with India’s ambassador to the United States in 2012, and issued a statement noting the role India could play in stabilizing Afghanistan, he did not meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to the United States.But he has given India greater priority than other Republican candidates in the field thus far, and is on the record with his goals. His Senate press secretary Brooke Sammon stated that Rubio “intends to continue to advocate for policies that advance our shared security and economic interests and reflect the changing strategic landscape in South Asia and the broader region.”In policy terms, Rubio’s approach to India hews closely to the Republican argument for a strategic opening that led to the civil-nuclear agreement and a rapid expansion of the bilateral relationship. However, India has by and large been a rare issue of bipartisan agreement, and many Democrats (including Hillary Clinton) have expressed the same policy views. No one expects India to be a major campaign issue, but it would be interesting if Rubio emerges as the nominee and accuses the Democrats of not doing enough to further ties with New Delhi.

vayu tuvan wrote:

A Catholic convert raised by Hindu parents, Jindal has pivoted from his reputation as a policy wonk to make his religious beliefs the centerpiece of a possible White House campaign. He has courted evangelical Christians through meetings with pastors and aggressively promoted "religious liberty" in speeches.......
Gautam

That is the problem right there. Fox news (Dana Perino and other four of "The Five" are singing peons to him the other day) is the final nail in the coffin. But then alternatives are Billary or Ron (stop-immigrants-at-the-border Libertarian Right) Paul or Rubio or whatchammacallit Cruz.

schinnas wrote:Habal ji, not disagreeing with what you are saying, but US also has some great aspects of its culture. Many US thinkers that shaped its society were openly influenced by India and the cultural and people to people links between US and India is ever increasing. If you leave out the EJ backed anti-India sentiment, US is the most open large country to Dharmic thoughts.

Martin Luther King Jr, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson are to name a few that comes to top of my mind. The new age movement and even in philosophy the Integral philosophy championed by Ken Wilber, etc., in recent times is heavily influenced by Bhuddist and Advaidic thoughts and works of Sri Aurobindo.

Tell me one instance of such cultural integration between India and China. Chinese are the most ruthless people in the world and they do not have evolved notions of one humanity, etc., that the New Age elites of the West has. China is not our natural partner in the long term. US will be - when it mends its ways and gives up supporting Sunni terrorism in the world.

Shreeman wrote:
habal,

you are wrong here. the us has been hindered by the distance. china has not. china was a paper tiger until the 90s. And like 47, 62 was a story of the indian political class feeling that a bigger defeat or much more destruction of the army would bring aboult balkanization and lamp posts.

china has much bigger problems with india. it is changing the status quo -- infrastructure that helps encroachment and not just in south china sea. India is scared of even making places like DBO functional or building a road in AP. Forget ordinary people visiting and bringing some transparancy.

Indian foreign relations -- with US, and with china or pakistan are entirely mythical. The maps shown to the population are mythical. The status on the ground is shrouded in secrecy. The number of people dying are not reported. where will you find out about it? In the news? By visiting?

China will shoo off india like it does vietnam and phillipines today. And circles japans islands despite US protection. It is just a matter of another decade.
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