South Africa would suffer more relatively. Bilateral trade is ~$15.5B (FY25-26), with India exporting ~$7B (vehicles, pharma, fuels) and importing ~$8.5B (coal, ores, pulp). This is ~1.6% of India's merchandise exports but ~4% of SA's (~$116B total). India is SA's 2nd import source (~7%). SA's smaller economy (~$480B GDP) makes the hit larger; India has more alternative markets and suppliers.
⚡ Prothom Alo, Bangladesh’s largest newspaper, exposed 150+ Chinese streamers filming in Dhaka 🇧🇩 slums and passing them off as INDIA 🇮🇳 to Chinese audiences.
India’s growth under democracy is delivering results, and clearly rattling CCP 🇨🇳 dictatorship propaganda.
@lilbabygandhi@sororaborealis Just because a man said he's hindu, seeth coming in comments.
so according to their same logic
If you're a Muslim you're automatically a radical Islamist sharia supporter and by default a homophobic but they'll cry foul.
The Indian left is really something else. I just don't understand what their actual problem is.
First of all, they themselves failed to invest in manufacturing and build the necessary foundations to make India a global manufacturing powerhouse when they had the opportunity before 2014. They did nothing. They failed to understand what was happening in their neighbourhood. They didn't see what was unfolding around them.
But today's left has gone even further. It is increasingly building propaganda against its own country simply to advance a particular political narrative. And this video is a classic example.
The video begins by discussing Nara Lokesh, the Minister for IT and Human Resources Development in Andhra Pradesh. He simply describes this period as a Golden Decade and an opportunity for India to capitalise on its potential and establish its place in the world. Andhra Pradesh he says, is committed to supporting this vision through its 3S model Speed, Service and Stability.
But you know how it goes. It's a Chinese video, so, of course, they have to turn it into propaganda as well. And that's exactly what happens.
Now, meet Kanthaswamy Balasubramaniam. I'm not entirely sure who is actually behind this account. There are conflicting claims about his identity. Some claim that he is Chinese but Larps himself as an Indian, while others say he is Indian left. Whatever his actual identity, what stands out is that he seems completely uninterested in what is happening around him, as long as he can advance his political narrative.
The Indian left had decades of opportunities to build and invest in industry, yet failed to do enough. Even after witnessing China's rapid growth from the 1990s through the 2000s and into the early 2010s, they failed to draw the necessary lessons. And now, they are busy building narratives against their own country simply to win political arguments, relying on little more than sweeping generalisations.
Most of his statements are generalisations. India is a democracy with elected governments and regular elections. Naturally, political leaders will use infrastructure projects and development announcements to advance their political interests. That happens in every democracy. It isn't something exclusive to India.
This congressi brother is very close to understanding why the the ideology he hates, has snowballed into a force of nature
just a matter of time, everybody bends the knee
If I said, live and on air: “Mehdi Hasan only moved to the US to sleep with white women!”
Am I being Islamophobic? If yes, why does he laugh when it’s said about two Hindu men? What does that say about what he thinks of Hindus?
Remember, if you're Hindu, the leftists think you were born with original sin that only leftist activism can expiate. The same way they think of Jews and Zionism.
Democrats & Republicans play good cop bad cop but their goals are aligned when it comes to Indian Americans or Indians in general who they perceive through their denigrate lenses biased against Hinduism/India. They're not doing this out of ignorance but deliberate policy.
I think you’re identifying a much deeper problem within the Hindu American community, one that fundamentally comes down to a generational disconnect in how we understand our place in American society.
What I find particularly reprehensible is the incessant fearmongering about the Democratic Party and the narrative that the American left harbors some inherent animosity toward Hindus. A disturbing number of people within our community seem incapable of making the most elementary distinction between opposition to a political ideology in a country thousands of miles away and actual prejudice against Hindu Americans.
You are perfectly entitled to disagree with how progressives characterize Hindu nationalism, challenge their historical interpretations, or reject misrepresentations of Indian politics. I most certainly disagree with many of those characterizations myself. But criticism of the BJP, Narendra Modi, or any political ideology associated with the Indian state does not, in and of itself, constitute Hinduphobia.
My disagreement with those characterizations does not obligate me to embrace the extremes on the other side, much less overlook their blatant racism and bigotry. It is indefensible to allow disagreements over the politics of a country thousands of miles away to take precedence over the increasingly overt racism confronting Hindu Americans in the country we actually call home.
@vasantbhatt14 Democrats & Republicans play good cop bad cop but their goals are aligned when it comes to Indian Americans or Indians in general who they perceive through their denigrate lenses biased against Hinduism/India. They're not doing this out of ignorance but deliberate policy.
Chinese vloggers in Dhaka are bringing Indian cosmetics to local shops, paying shopkeepers 500 taka to place them, then filming the scene while claiming it is New Delhi.
Are they trying to damage the image of Indian products?