Monkeys have to live on trees. If the big tree falls, wonder where those monkeys are going to run to. Now, even as the USA is talking about ditching Ukraine, the White monkeys are at sixes and sevens not knowing what to do.
The USA is blowing hot and cold about its move, just trying to fool Putin. Now talking about a 30-day ceasefire, which many have said was a ploy to enable Ukraine to rearm and regroup and allowing more weapon flows from USA and the European states to Ukraine.
According to Kevin Walmsley, on his site 'Inside China Business', always with well-researched information, the Europeans are desperate to replenish their weapons stockpile, not to talk about providing more weapons to Ukraine. That is just posturing, thinking that Putin will be rattled. The UK talks about increasing its military spending, while Macron talks about providing a nuclear umbrella for the whole of Europe. Who are they trying to kid?
China has controlled the export of antimony for making weapons, and even the USA is greatly affected by the shortage. What about Europe? China and Russia control the world's supply and processing of antimony. What the USA is attempting to do now is getting antimony out of the ground only, which will take years.
The Europeans are now outsourcing their ammunition supply to India, possibly thinking that India will still get its antimony supply from Russia, which also is not unknown to China and Russia. Russia already warned India repeatedly over the supply of ammunition for the Europeans, which mostly ended up in Ukraine. The Indian feign ignorance, knowing its dependance on the raw materials for making weapons on China and Russia is on the line.
Russia is not going to continue supplying India with the raw materials to be used in artillery shells to target Russian troops. And when China and Russia tighten their raw material supplies to India, that is going to bankrupt all the effort that India is making to become a major arms supplier, making money setting up more arms factory to make ammunitions, even in Poland.
We now know why Modi had to grovel at the feet of Trump like a dog, agreeing to whatever Trump is stuffing down his throat. India has to leave BRICS, as it is sabotaging Russia. And Russia has to make a decision over its supply of discounted oil to India.
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India is toast and Modi's continued superpower boast, and factory of the world fabrication is falling apart and losing its support in India. Eleven years in power and India is in even bigger trouble than ever before.
Some people are asking, why is India being hated by all of its neighbors - China, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and even the Maldives with their new leader ordering India to leave. India is just like the USA, trying to bully smaller states, acting like a real superpower on steroids.
Modi's problem is getting worse by the day. Jobs need to be created to absorb the growing population, which is the largest in the world now and India is gloated to be the largest democracy as well. But India failed in its industrialization program, the sector that is able to create jobs en-masse.
This is the result of Modi's failed policies, enacting retrospective laws to punish foreign investors with fabricating accusations to take over control of foreign companies to enrich cronies like Ambani and Adani. India, like the USA, is not the only country that others have to invest in. USA is too expensive to support manufacturing, even if it tries to do today, while India lacks the infrastructure and skills to support a manufacturing base. Investors are not unaware, with Apple providing the bad experience for would be investors to ponder over. The much touted 'population dividend' is more a liability than an asset for India. With robotics and automation using AI becoming the norm in manufacturing, even a large and growing population is of little help.
The USA and, surprisingly an Indian analyst, are still spouting the nonsense that China is able to make things so much cheaper because Chinese people are being paid, and I quote, 'slave wages'. Sure, compared to the USA, Chinese wages are still low, but most Chinese people are living a much better life than most in the USA, as has been exposed by Rednote users. Bear in mind that China has a population four times that of the USA to take care of.
The purchasing power of the Chinese people are comparatively higher than USA citizens, and they do not really need high wages to lead a better life, which is all relative. Everything is so much more expensive in the USA than in China. There are lots of information on the internet to support my point. Even foreigners working in China do not pay an arm and a leg to rent a house, pay for groceries, commuting all over China, whereas some USA citizens need to work at two or even three jobs to pay rent and put food on the table. They are really nothing but slaves of another dimension.
For an Indian analyst to say that Chinese manufacturing is paying 'slave wages' to workers is a joke and does not do justice to his profession, by just vomiting the same rubbish as those USA journalists on MSM. What about Indians in India? They must be enjoying high wages like the USA, right? India's annual income per capita is about a fifth of workers in China, and if China's wages are considered 'slave wages', what then should India's wages be called?
Having said that, why is India, paying such low wages or 'slave wages' far below China, still unable to become a manufacturing hub like China, if China's success is all due to paying 'slave wages'? There are other factors more than wages to consider when looking at why China is able to succeed in making things so much cheaper. One of which is to do more instead of just talking a lot. Trying to put down China does not make India a better country.
Tim Cook in 2018 already put to rest the argument that China's manufacturing edge being based on low wages is outdated. China's competitive advantage lies in automation and robotics, advanced skillsets and industrial scale which the USA cannot replicate.
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