Deepak Tiwari🇮🇳

Learner,Geopolitical Observer,International Relations.

[Deepak Tiwari🇮🇳 @Calwaysbemine]

Efforts will be on to quash rising powers if they cannot be co-opted.

[Surya Kanegaonkar @suryakane]

Trump is a gift for India. His actions have forced the Indian establishment into risk-taking mode. India’s path to great power status depends on 1) institutional reform and domestic market liberalization and deregulation, 2) natural resource security, 3) dedollarization of trade with the Global South, 4) technology R&D and independence, 5) militarization to build parity with China, and finally, 6) success in unilaterally reshaping the subcontinent by ending Western and Chinese proxy wars aimed at containing India.

Closer ties with the US would only slow this process, because many of these objectives do not fit Washington’s vision for Asia and the world.

Trust in a strategic partnership with a declining power was bound show up unfounded at some point. Today’s great power competition between the US and China is entirely different from the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union. China geopolitically arbitraged its way into becoming a supplier of low cost goods. The US actively supported globalization in large part, to cut domestic inflation and set interest rates low for decades. This was a national imperative.

Today, three decades of unipolarity have proven to be a costly affair for Washington. National indebtedness is reaching a critical point. This makes the US take some tough decisions. It is willing to sacrifice the credibility of its institutions, global reputation, soft power, and currency reliability simply to inflate away its burgeoning debt. Even then, the result is not guaranteed by any stretch.

Globalization has reached its limit. Dependence on a state capitalist China is deep unlike it was with a communist Soviet Union. It also poses structural risks to the US. Meanwhile, the US’ share of global economic output is far smaller today than it was in the post war period. The median age of the American population is over ten years higher than it was in the Cold War. The American Dream is eroding and public trust in government has reached multidecade lows. The precipitous decline in the value of fiat currency has been matched by enormous growth inequality. The domestic political landscape is fractured irreparably as economic disparity and culture wars ravage American society.

Against this backdrop, multialignment abroad and liberalization at home will form the foundation of India’s growth story. Preserving hegemony demands the US impose its will on partners. Technology denial, economic coercion and proxy wars will be part and parcel of the American strategy to cling on to unipolarity. Efforts will be on to quash rising powers if they cannot be co-opted.

Those who claim that the Indo-US partnership is the defining relationship of the 21st century either ignore Washington’s intentions and constraints, or believe, without evidence, that the US would be willing to share power. This of course assumes that these strategic planners in India want strategic autonomy preserved. There is another camp - the cultivated one - which works to turn India into an American vassal. Both have been shut down.

Trump’s tariffs and Washington’s belligerence leave India with just one path forward. First, redefine the country’s national vision and international strategy, not merely to become a developed nation but truly a global power. Second, plan meticulously and execute with speed. Third, take political, economic, strategic and military risks. Rest assured, this will be an Indian century.

[Shashank Mattoo @MattooShashank]

“Just look at four or five states in India that are now growing at a remarkable pace in export manufacturing. If the other states do the same, India will be lifted up despite its late start,” says Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam

[Arun Bothra 🇮🇳 @arunbothra]

For five days, the animals came, ate and left freely. On the sixth day, the gate closed. The food was still there. The comfort was still there. Freedom was gone.

Humans aren’t very different.

We get so accustomed to comfort, convenience and favours that we sometimes forget to ask what they might cost us.

Not every trap looks like a trap. Some look like opportunities, comforts and favours.

[Vikram Sood @Vikram_Sood]

Some great writing from @samirsaran. The argument was lucid, logical and Indian. And don’t miss the concluding lines “Some nations are still sovereign. The sky above India may be open, but the rules beneath it are written in New Delhi.”

Read More:
https://t.co/s2nCW8JczI https://t.co/s2nCW8JczI

[Zorawar Daulet Singh @Z_DauletSingh]

Since the 2000s, Indian policymakers of all stripes have been using India itself as a bargaining chip to craft a relationship with the U.S. The tragic analogy with the Mahabharata is particularly stark. Just like Yudhishthira gambled away his kingdom and dignity, Indians have been doubling down on a bet that was set up to fail.

India’s redemption now lies in returning to the path of dharma.

[Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal]

No other leader of the world has shown such sophisticated understanding of Indian society, culture and traditions.

And that publicly.

No western leader has shown a similar grasp of the larger India’s reality .

Putin sees this reality of uniqueness and unity as an example for building “relations between different countries, with different cultures, with different histories, with different traditions”.

[Zorawar Daulet Singh @Z_DauletSingh]

Significant statement.

While in deeds both India and China had worked together to contain their border standoff in recent years, to openly express the idea that India-China conflict serves the interests of third parties (US, Pak in particular) marks an Indian policy shift.

[Navtej Sarna @NavtejSarna]

My column in @TheWeekLive on current state of India US relations, written earlier this week.

[Deepak Tiwari🇮🇳 @Calwaysbemine]

@NavtejSarna @TheWeekLive Well said sir

[Zorawar Daulet Singh @Z_DauletSingh]

By speaking truthfully Ambassador Sarna stands taller than his peers who have abdicated their responsibility to uphold Indian interests.

[Dr. Brahma Chellaney @Chellaney]

A swaggering bully: By giving Xi Jinping a king's welcome, Trump validates his critics' charge that he appeases dictators, including America's adversaries, while bullying America's friends. He prizes dominance, treating leaders he sees as weak with aggression and extracting concessions from them. Yet he shows respect to a country willing to pay him in the same coin.

[Akashvani आकाशवाणी @AkashvaniAIR]

Indian Scientists Develop 'Smart' Drug RK-251 to Target Cancer Cells Selectively

* New "smart" drug RK-251 switches on only inside cancer cells, sparing healthy tissue
* Chemotherapy harms healthy cells too, causing side effects

For more information, log on to: https://t.co/2fYOQ0n5gs

@MIB_India @airnewsalert

[Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal]

What is this Gen Z?

Talk of youth . There is no coherent or cohesive Gen so- called Z.

Why are we internalising US formulations about generations that relate to the impact on their societies of economic and technology changes there.

Worse, we pronounce Z as Zed and not Zee. We should discard this mental subordination to western expressions .

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

Jammu and Kashmir are an important part of India. I was just in Srinigar in May with @LiamSCollins researching Operation Sindoor and visiting Pahalgam. Highly recommend, a beautiful city and surrounding region. Fully support downgrading the travel advisory. Be sure to pickup some saffron.
https://t.co/KFKEt4sEUi

[Shiv Kant @shivkant]

लोगों ने अमरीकी बोंड बेचने शुरू कर दिए हैं। बजट घाटा बढ़ रहा है! ट्रंप ने बेबात की लड़ाई में पाँव फँसा लिए और टैरिफ जंग से नुकसान हो रहा है! लोगों का भरोसा उठ रहा है। ट्रंप को जिस बात से डर लगता है वह यही है। ईरान चाहे तो अब डील हो सकती है! बोंड बिकवाली ट्रंप को मजबूर कर सकती है!

[Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal]

“Important part of India”- a welcome political affirmation. Asim Munir and Shehbaz Sharif will have noted the significance of this remark. Let us see the reaction from Pakistan.

[Deepak Tiwari🇮🇳 @Calwaysbemine]

@PrateekUvacha The government is carrying the burden of most government employees; in reality, they are good for nothing.

[Navroop Singh @TheNavroopSingh]

How Reels & Short Videos are now reducing cognitive controls and functions for younger generation.

[Surya Kanegaonkar @suryakane]

Money from nefarious actors in Pakistan and the Middle East played a massive role in gatekeeping India’s cinema industry for years. Influence public opinion in a democracy enough, and national policies can be shaped favorably, even if on the margins. The self-styled “global citizens” and “liberal” producers, directors, artists and reviewers were useful pawns. As expected, they eventually created a somewhat autonomous industry that served the interests of state sponsors of terrorism.

Narrations of the unvarnished truth through art - eg. The Kashmir Files - were derided as “propaganda.” The story was hard hitting. The craft got fine-tuned, and we saw Baramulla, which faced the same criticism despite its brilliant storyline and cinematography. Now, Dhurandhar fictionalized a story which has roots in India’s pain and valor. It is slick, well-researched, action-packed and cool. It “aura farms” and has got the “rizz” that appeals to a wide audience of young and increasingly educated citizens. Importantly, it calls a spade a spade, which flies in the face of the subversive narrative that Indians have had to deal with for decades.

This is the masses breaking the doors down, connecting with the country’s past and present, showing what they want in the future. They want a muscular nation, one which stands up for itself against enemies who were given a long enough rope to change, but failed to do so. It’s time for brass tacks, and cinema which reflects that sentiment is, in a sense, truly authentic.

India’s indigenous culture has strong martial leanings, which have been suppressed for far too long by a neocolonial elite in politics and art alike. Today, the people want testosterone and truth with their entertainment, not apologia for terrorism. The Overton window is shifting, and how.

[Surya Kanegaonkar @suryakane]

The realities of Kashmir were ignored not out of ignorance but rather spite for India in general and Hindus in particular. That one needs courage to tell the truth about Pakistani terrorism is testament itself to who has really run Bollywood for so long.

Now, they are afraid that their psyops have no takers. They are also afraid that money for producing authentic Indian cinema is growing.