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?
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Not only was India slighted. There was another comment made by Trump that made Japan nervous and paranoid. Oh, the Japanese are just saying that Japan is confused, but more likely fearful of being thrown under the bus by Trump. Not immediately, but the message gets more and more insidious.
During Xi's visit, Trump was gloating about China being its ally during WW2 and Xi saying that it was a bond forged in blood. That was telling. That was indirectly saying they were allies against undoubtedly Japan, nothing more.
If that giggling clown of a Japanese prime minister does not understand geopolitical language, she is a disaster. Now, that is not the only occasion that Trump had made Japan queasy. In another meeting in the White House earlier between the two, someone asked if Trump's attack on Iran was sneaky. Trump replied that in order to understand what is sneaky, they need to ask the Japanese, meaning about that sneaky attack on Pearl Harbor during WW2. It was a very uncomfortable remark that made Sanae Takaichi winced, undoubtedly shocked and unable to understand why Trump was that blunt.
As for India and Narenda Modi, Trump does not think it important to even try to pacify India nor Modi. Trump already said that India is a 'shithole' earlier, a deathbed for many USA companies investing in India. Its only usefulness was and is to be cultivated as a pawn by the USA to counter China, which it is totally impotent. India is now surrounded by hostile neighbors of its own making, trying to act as a superpower trying to exert influence over them.
India is actually a smallish country compared to other countries, What India has in abundance is only Indian people. India's land area is only one-third the land mass of China, Canada and the US, and less than half that of Brazil and Australia.. .
"During Xi's visit, Trump was gloating about China being its ally during WW2 and Xi saying that it was a bond forged in blood. " -- u r spot on bro ! It's a great reminder to SakuraLand , Dragons & Eagles r all brothers & sisters craft out of WWII in flesh n blood whose others can compare or understand! (note: this is apart from the Korean wars in the 50s & other tariffs wars recently).
India's land area will further shrink when China take back its South Tibet . . .
India boasted China has no friends, meaning India has many friends. Really? Every one of India's immediate neighbour is an enemy or does not trust India.
Same as USA and EU boasting that Russia has no friends, isolated and collapsing. Russia is almost self-sufficient in resources - oil, agriculture and have BRICS backing it up.
Don't be naive!
Dotard Tramp just acting wayang
He needed China now for the Rare Earth and also help to settle the Iran War
His mid -terms coming
After that he shall be back to his Evil Ways
Bring up the BIG stick
You did not see his latest threats that he can annihilate any country that disobey him
Leopards don't change their spots
Xi is not so stupid
Annihilate only ikan bilis like Venezuela. 4 to 5 days to annihilate Iran has stretched to more than seven months. All kinds of threats changed nothing.
They claimed that oil coming out of the Gulf is now at pre-war level. Did I hear that correctly? Or is that just to fabricate a good feeling to bring down oil prices for November? How is oil moving so well in the face of all the missiles hitting ships. Sounds incredible.
Then why is petrol prices sky high, and prices of everything also shooting up?
The funny thing is we are living in two different worlds. The world of Trump has a different perspective from the world of you and me.
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