"India went from 23% of global GDP in 1800 to 1.8% in 1947. This is not high-level mathematics, you can see the difference. Britain went from this poor, desperate, benighted country, into this great outpost of civilization, prosperity, gold and commerce. While India became a poster child for third-world destitution."
Shashi Tharoor on his new RT show Imperial Receipts.
It takes an hour to explain why Dr. Tharoor is an icon in India - perhaps it is his top-tier diplomatic credentials, or his political career, or his articulately argued anti-colonial speeches that young Indians carry as their creed.
But really it is about a certain intellectual "je ne said quoi" that many try to imitate, but no one else can quite reproduce.
Extremely lucky to welcome him on RT.
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Projecting US as the greatest victim of india in trade . Dramatising. Fact is:
US deficit with China is $ 270b,
With EU $ 161 b, with Mexico $ 157b, with Vietnam $ 113.1b, with Taiwan $67.4b, with Japan $ 62.6b, with South Korea $ 60.2b, Canada 54.8b, Thailand $ 41.5b, India 41.5 b.
Usual untruth.
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India- US trade in services was
about $83.4 billion, with U.S. services exports to India at $41.8 billion and U.S. $ 41.6b.
Total disaster?
India- US defence trade was virtually nil in2000. It has touched a total of almost $ 22 b in2024.
Why this whining?
The claim that we have offered to reduce our tariffs to nothing is true of some products but our redlines are firm.
Economical with truth and trading in falsities.