I think Trump and his administration are now getting jittery about India closing relations with China, that will make India an impotent attack dog in trying to contain China. The USA had been cultivating India for a long time to be used against China and is not going to dump India. That is why it is important for China to be careful regarding the rapprochement by India with even a visit by Modi in September.
Of course, China will want a closer relation with India to negate the effect of the problems with the USA, but not with a on and off type of behavior like Javier Milei of Argentina and Giorgia Meloni of Italy. These two are like bamboos swaying in the wind, unable to stand up to threats from the USA.
But then, Palki Sharma is trying to spin it into China trying to be closer and needing India to counter the USA. Mr Hunzi's goddess is a shameless propagandist in the art of twisting facts into fiction.
Anonymous
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Snakes are snakes. Would anyone trust a snake even after helping it? China helped the USA during the 2008 financial crisis, but now the snake is biting China from all angles. The lesson has been learned, and China should not be dealing with snakes.
What is even more telling is the other bigger snake probably playing Modi around, now that that bigger snake has no other cards to deal against China. Yes, there is the possibility of Modi running back to the kiss Trump's ass, especially if Trump lowers the 50% tariffs to say 25% or less. Modi will bend over backwards to take the deal. Trump will gloat about the big, beautiful and productive deal with India.
The trap is probably to loosen the leash to allow India to close ranks temporarily with China, to get some Chinese investments to flow into India again to mitigate India's economic problems resulting from an expanding population and its missteps in hijacking or chasing out Chinese investments in the past.
India also needs rare earth supplies from China to resume for its EV, iPhones and manufacturing facilities, which has now been curtailed after the discovery that India had been selling Chinese rare earths under the table to USA military contractors.
India has rare earth ores in abundance (ores are not actually rare, the processed elements are rare) but lacks the mining facilities and the refining logistics to tackle its rare earth shortage. It will take decades and huge investments to build up those facilities, which India is attempting to solve.
Foreign investors are wary of India's bad habit of using retrospective investment and tax laws once such investments start to reap benefits and are not rushing into India to be screwed. Samsung found that out too late and had been slammed with a US$600 fine by the Indians.
Modi will be the biggest laughingstock if he starts running back to kiss Trump's ass. Fetch, Modi, fetch.
Correction: ...Samsung found that out too late and had been slammed with a US$600 million fine by the Indians.
My apologies. Anon 9.45
They are used to it, we also have it here where an indian who go on to become a malay president.
For Red Dot, India still lumber one for investing in. Pak si boh chow.
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