Trump Xi Meeting - Poor India feels very slighted and very unhappy

 The Xi Trump fellowship in Washington has come and gone. Both would have forgotten about what happened on this social event mainly for some photo ops and camaraderie. It is now left to the media to speculate on what really happened or what really did not happen. Most of the commentaries in the main and social media were about how they dressed, who and who showed up, what were in menu, how well they dressed but nothing of real substance. Even then, a lot of time and effort and money were spent for this Trump show of the year before the mid term election. In another few days, everything would be forgotten.

But in one corner of South Asia, in India, the Indians are having sleepless night as to what this hooha was all about, what are the implications to India US relation and to a lesser extent India China relation. The Indians find it a bit difficult to swallow to see Trump treating Xi/China as an equal, as two super powers. Then what is left for the Indians? Have the two colluded to throw India under the bus?

India has been sulking since the war with Pakistan, Operation Sindoor, when, instead of standing on the side of the Indians, Trump invited the Pakistani Army Chief for dinner at the White House. This was like a slap on the face of Modi. To make matter worse, Trump ridiculed India for losing several fighter jets in the short war.

India's relation with the Americans, especially with Trump, has been going downhill for a while. Gone were the days when India saw itself a major factor in America's anti China strategy, as a useful partner to counter the influence of China. Gone were the days when the Indians were proudly waving the QUAD membership card, as a recognition of being a trusted and important partner of America. India believed they were in the top league of players in international relations, playing among the big boys. This ecstatic state of affair was capped by the Americans reinventing and renaming the Asia Pacific Region as Indo Pacific Region, in recognition of the important role of India as a counterweight against China.

All this seems to end with a quiet poop after Operation Sindoor. The Americans seemed to have a change of mind, that using India as a counterweight against China is futile, worthless, when India was duly beaten by the Pakistan in Operation Sindoor. The Indo Pacific Region tag was dropped immediately and reverted to the Pacific Region, minus Indo or India. The American Indo Pacific Command was renamed the Pacific Command. The overhyped QUAD seems to have been dropped from the American playbook, irrelevant, redundant, history, not to be mentioned again.

The Indians are now double guessing where they really stand in the eyes of the Americans and Trump. Does India still has a role to play as a counterweight against China when Trump and Xi are now buddies, partying and parading together in the front of the whole world? America and China are the de facto super powers. Where is India, the super power wannabe? Would Trump allow Modi to kiss his ass again? Or India has been kicked into the wilderness? India the balancer, the counterweight, the game changer in the China US play now has no role to play. 

The Americans have clearly given up using India to counter China. Can India still hope to use the US to counter China?  For once, the Indians are lost, not knowing what else can they do in the game of super powers when obviously it is a non player, not in the same league. Ouch...not invited to the Trump and Xi party, not even mentioned at all. How can that be when India was tweaking everything in BRICS, betraying BRICS in the interest of the Americans? How can the Americans, how can Trump be so ungrateful to India for taking the side of the Americans, as the spoiler in BRICS?

Without the Americans, India has no one to lean on so that it can shout loudly in world affairs and in BRICS.  Putin has also given up with India. India now has to stand alone in BRICS like a wobbly three legged chair...isolated and all alone.  The Trump Xi Meeting may not mean much to both of them, but means a lot to the Indians. The Indians would be asking themselves, who am I, what am I? Would India still be useful to the Americans and be a force that can tilt the balance between China and the US?

Top Made in India product - Indian workers

Let just see how the rest of the world look at the problem of India exporting workers to other countries. Sindiapore has a problem over this for years, so does the rest of the world today.

When China and India took off three or four decades ago, China betted on becoming a manufacturing hub while India betted on being the services backroom of Western companies. Who betted on the right horse and who did not is clearly evident.

China's manufacturing depended on its own skilled workforce and is held hostage by nobody. China revamped its education system decades ago to fit in with its manufacturing agenda. It worked. The world still needs manufactured products that had held true in the past, at present and into the future. No one is foolish enough to want to compete with China, except, ironically, India.

India betted on the service industry, providing call centers en masse for Western companies and even tailored its education system for that. AI just ended all that and the service industry of India is collapsing. India has no way to migrate its service industry quickly to manufacturing. It did not have the investments, the skilled workers, the education system ready to turn around to take on the task. Coupled with that, the Middle East war is forcing Indians to return home to compete domestically in its job market. That is a serious problem compounded by the influx of more than five million university graduates joining the job market every year.

Now outsourcing labor to other countries is facing pushback, not just in Asia, but in Europe and America as well.


Anonymous

Not all progress is good for mankind

Pope Leo is worried talking about the AI doom as not a 'hoax' befalling mankind. I have the same feeling that not all progress is good for mankind. Humans are well known for using technology more for making money than to benefit mankind. That is the reality.

Of course, anything that Trump wanted is contrary to what the rest of the world thinks. Trump claimed that climate change is a hoax, so that he can benefit from his investments in fossil fuel extraction. We have read about the melting glaciers in the Himalayas wreaking havoc and floods all across the world getting worse every year. Melting glaciers due to climate change are raising sea levels. Coupled with overbuilding, cities are sinking across the world. Then there were the wildfires across the world also caused by climate change.

Trump needs AI and data centers for the USA to rule the world in technology. Anyone saying otherwise is just creating a hoax. The USA's economy is just relying on this sector, which if it loses to others or suffers curbs, will be disastrous for the USA. Just listen to a wise clown and you can never be wrong, lol.


Anonymous

Today is 1st October, 2026 and China and the Chinese people are celebrating the 77th Anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China with Pomp and vibrancy

 Southernglory1 and all overseas Chinese compatriots congratulate China and the Chinese people on this day 1st October, 2026 on the National Day of their 77th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China on 1st October, 1949.

The founding of the People's Republic of China was not easy. The road to China and the Chinese people's rejuvenation was treacherous and laid with traps and diabolical Western and Japanese toxic conspiracies to prevent the success of a united China and its great civilization. 

Just after China was united by the Chinese Communist Party led by Mao Tse-Tung on 1st October, 1949, the barbaric United States and its savage allies launched the Korean War on June 1950 which soon involved  China as the United States bombed the Chinese border close to North Korea. China fought the Americans to a stalemate and being unable to subdue the North Korean and the Chinese armies the Americans sought peace and thus an armistice was signed in October, 1953 which still holds now.

Russia had initially agreed with China that as the war was close to Russia Far East, Russia would pay for all the weapons inclusive of air force covers for Chinese and North Korean armies as well as tanks and all fire powers of guns and cannons while China would provide all the men power and fighting forces. But after the war ended with an armistice Russia reneged on payment and demanded that China must pay back to Russia every cent and dollar that Russia incurred in the Korean War. 

This repayment to Russia of billions of dollars went on to impoverish China for many years.

At the same time after the Korean War the West headed by the US went on to blockade China economically and politically. China was unable to conduct international trade and was blocked from having political relations with many countries of the world. In the meanwhile the US continued to intervene in the yet unfinished Chinese Civil War between CPC controlled mainland China and KMT controlled Taiwan. The Americans stationed its 7th Fleet in the Taiwan Strait to prevent the final consummation of unity between Mainland China and Taiwan which is held by treacherous traitors in the KMT led by Chiang Kai Shek a brainless American stooge.

America has continuously tried with all ways and means through deception and subterfuge to hinder China's development, peaceful rise and rejuvenation so as to undermine and destroy China. It never stops disparaging and demonizing China on all fronts through toxic propagandas and on world stage and forums. However, the Chinese people with grit and gumption struggled and fought on against all the US and Western evil machinations and managed to beat these treacherous paths of Western plots and won final victory to today's success of achieving the rich and powerful People's Republic of China.

Today China celebrates its 77th Anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China with great pride and grandeur and with vibrancy all over China in every city big or small and in every county and village. This great victory of the People's Republic of China did not come easy and every Chinese must cherish it and forever protect it and defend it with all the mighty Dragon Spirit as the barbaric United States and its banditry allies and Japan have not given up hope to destroy China and the Chinese people.

Now most of the countries of the South and the BRICS countries have realized how extremely evil and wicked the United States and all Western European countries and Japan are and are standing with China to ward off further dangers from them. 

Long live the cooperation and unity of the People's Republic of China and all countries of the South that they may not have to suffer again the plundering and ravages of white people, the imbecile Anglo-Saxons5 and evil Japan. From now on hopefully China and all countries of the South will be able to march together in unison to prosperity in a more peaceful and harmonious world.

Southernglory1

Thursday, 1st October, 2026

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Make in India is a misnomer. Nothing is Made in India

 India can continue to gloat about wanting to overtake China as the factory of the world, about its manufacturing prowess, about being the 5th or 6th biggest GDP country. What India really is, is anything but an assembler of goods and products by importing parts from outside India. Nothing is Made in India, oops, other than cow dung. Only the very dense and gullible will believe in the great success stories of India and wanting to take a ride in the Indian growth engine and wanting to make more rupees.

The mobile phones for Apple, Samsung and Xiaomi are all assembled in India, not Made in India. Get it? Assembling parts is NOT manufacturing. The Suzuki March is assembled in India except a few three wheelers made by Tata, the supposedly industrial giant of India that literally makes nothing of its own. India is not a manufacturing hub but an assembly hub. India depends heavily on China and foreign sources for its parts, components, aggregate, precursors and ingredients for all it goods and products. Without the inputs from China, all Indian factories can close shop, unable to make anything. Apple India can also close shop.

Maybe India is right to use the phrase 'Make in India' and not 'Made in India'. A proper phrase should be 'Assembled in India' or Packaged in India. India can continue to spin its beautiful stories to silly countries to invite them to throw their good money in exchange for rupees. The smarter countries have tasted the real India and are avoiding India like a plague. But the fools will keep charging in where angels fear to thread.

India will take many donkey years to be a real manufacturer of goods and products. Where are the Indian made EVs, automobiles and buses, drones, mobile phones, home electronics, laptops, fighter aircraft with engines Made in India, ocean going ships, VLCCs, tunnelling machines, heavy cranes, agricultural machinery, robots, chips etc etc. Oh, the Indian gods are all Made in China.

Until India starts to design and build its own products, India can just crow and crow to the gullible and low thinking to believe in India's growth engine to become a part of the growing world economy. Do not underestimate the power of stupidity and gold plated talents.