When you know the world's largest Muslim majority country chose India over China and in doing so handed PM Modi China's biggest strategic nightmare, the entire Indo-Pacific balance just shifted quietly.
Indonesia is not a small player. 280 million people. The world's largest Muslim majority nation. And its biggest maritime neighbour is not China. It is India.
Two thousand years of oceanic trade through the same corridor. Indonesia's people changed their religion over centuries but never changed their civilisational roots. Their national airline is still Garuda. That connection runs deeper than any recent geopolitical calculation.
And now it is producing consequences Beijing genuinely fears.
India and Indonesia are jointly developing Sabang Port at the entrance of the Malacca Strait. Just 160 kilometres from India's Great Nicobar project. One third of global trade passes through this narrow chokepoint. China's entire energy supply transits it. For twenty years Beijing has called this its Malacca Dilemma, the single strategic vulnerability that no amount of military buildup can fully solve.
India just positioned itself permanently on both sides of that gateway simultaneously. Quietly. Without a single dramatic announcement.
The partnership goes well beyond one port.
Indonesia signed a contract for India's indigenous air to air missiles. It is expanding its BrahMos arsenal further. India's defence exports hit a record Rs 38,424 crore this year. India will establish nickel and rare earth magnet processing industries in Indonesia, directly targeting the Chinese monopoly on critical mineral supply chains that Beijing has weaponised against the world.
Then the trust indicators that reveal how deep this relationship actually runs.
UPI is being integrated into Indonesia's payment infrastructure. Indian archaeologists are restoring the 1,170 year old Prambanan Shiva temple in Java.
A country does not invite another nation to restore its ancient temples unless the relationship operates at a level that has nothing to do with transactional geopolitics.
China spent decades trying to pull Indonesia into its orbit through infrastructure loans, investment promises and Belt and Road positioning. Indonesia watched. Calculated. And then chose to develop its most strategically sensitive port with India instead.
The Malacca Dilemma was always China's greatest fear. The scenario where a hostile or unfriendly power sits at the entrance of the strait through which all Chinese energy flows.
PM Modi just made that scenario real without firing a shot or issuing a single threat.
India did not ask China's permission to stand at the Malacca gateway.
It simply showed up. And Indonesia opened the door.
VP Vance is turning out to be India’s Nalayak Jamai Babu.
But for the sake of world peace we must wish him a successful mission, which is clearly looking tough again & humiliating for US to boot.
@krishnabgowda@TVMohandasPai@INCKarnataka@DKShivakumar@CMofKarnataka@siddaramaiah An observation on waste collection:
The city is mostly looking very dirty, coz the waste transfer to bigger bbmp vehicles is happening every where on the main roads, due to which main roads are extremely dirty. vacant lands with sheet envlosure to be identified for this activity
@Mrsinha@PawanDurani Yes, that's true. Its a real pleasure to watch and understand the meaning of each South Indian marriage ritual. Every ritual has a logic and now-a-days poojaris explain the significance of each ritual. Its a 3 day marriage ritual overload here in South India!!!
Big day! First India-built C295 transport aircraft for the IAF makes first flight from its facility in Vadodara. Congratulations to @TataCompanies@IAF_MCC@AirbusDefence.
Indian scientists just made history.
Researchers from IIT Madras and IISc Bengaluru just pulled off something impossible.
They've created the world's "first carbon-free ferrocene".
This means we can finally build the next generation of incredibly durable tech.
Let me explain.
See, ferrocene is this wild organometallic molecule - where an iron atom is perfectly sandwiched between two carbon rings.
But it’s insanely stable.
Which is why it is already used in rocket fuels, car gasoline additives, long-life batteries, and even cancer medicines.
And for the last 75 years, everyone thought it was impossible to build the same stable structure without using carbon.
But this team of Indian scientists proved everyone wrong.
They created the same perfect sandwich structure - by swapping iron for osmium and carbon rings for boron rings.
And what they got was the world's first carbon-free ferrocene - which is so much stronger than the carbon bonds.
By doing so - they've opened up a whole new era of chemistry. And we have no idea how many amazing things we might discover.
But to think all of this started in India is truly amazing.
Kudos to everyone on this team: Sundargopal Ghosh, Stutee Mohapatra, Suvam Saha, Urvashi Gupta, Deepak Patel - from IIT Madras, Gaurav Joshi and Eluvathingal D. Jemmis - from IISc Bengaluru.
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s bat swing has been outstanding. What’s even more remarkable is how beautifully he clears his front foot to create room for balls aimed at his legs. This freedom allows him to play the way he does.
That innings was nothing short of spectacular!
@sachin_rt@sriramnarasim So much of parental love in your tweet. Wish him all the very best. Its very difficult to be kids of famous parents. Kids are constantly under tremendous pressure, handling which needs tough nerves. Good luck once again !!!!!