India only has one plan...takeover. India is out to take everything, companies, industries, countries, and there are silly people inviting India to takeover everything

India is in big trouble going forward. India has many issues to take care of besides trying to stay as the sixth biggest economy in the world.

The most difficult problem for India right now is creating jobs for 12 million new university graduates coming onstream into the job market every year, without the corresponding mass job creation afforded by manufacturing. India is still largely an agrarian society, with more than 40% of its population still engaged in agriculture cum husbandry activities. The rise of AI and the Middle East war have added further pressure on India. Much of India's service industry that had been catering to Western companies using Indian workers for back-office jobs, have now been replaced by AI. The Iran War has also added another layer of problem for India, with Indian workers returning home to compete with new Indian graduates for jobs. These returning workers are educated and experienced, fighting for the tight job opportunities available. Therein lies the massive problem for India.

Of course, India can do what China did, albeit in 30 to 50 years' time optimistically speaking, but foreign direct investments have dried up from USA and the West. The USA, under Trump has classified India as a shithole, so think about that. The Europeans are no rich uncles themselves, already devastated by the Ukraine War and energy problems. Now, Europe is fighting a tariff war against the USA, so forget about European investing big in India.

The only source of investments for India is China. Chinese investments worldwide had been reported to be around US$130 billion annually, but in the face of the problems between India and China, it is unlikely to attract Chinese FDI into India. After all, the Chinese Government has warned Chinese companies to stay away from India. India wanted to please the USA by biting the hand that could help it with good investments, but India bit the hand of the Chinese over and over again.

Another big problem for India going big into manufacturing is the lack of infrastructures. There is no high-speed rail or even up-to-date rail network, roads are just pot-hole tracks, movement of raw materials and finished goods takes ages, and the supply chain for manufacturing is still largely outside the country. Moreover, the whole country is still highly corrupted, from the top Government leaders to the foot soldiers carrying out the duty of administrating policies. It is always the outstretch hand for bribes in order for things to be allowed to be done.

As I said before, all that hype about India's big expanding population as a dividend to be reaped is all hubris. It is more a massive liability for India to have a bursting young population without jobs. An expanding population is a boom for advanced countries like Japan and some European states, but not in a country as poor as India, whatever the showboating about a young population is trying to sell.


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China building more pipelines overland

Russia now has oil pipelines to move oil to China, and this is no longer a problem for both countries trying to evade choke points nor sanctions.

If a push comes to a shove, China and Iran too, may find it feasible to have similar pipelines to facilitate the movement of Iranian oil to China. There was already a proposal to build a pipeline from Gwadar Port in Pakistan to Kashgar, China, for Middle East oil, to avoid the Straits of Malacca, but which due to geological constraints, has been mothballed. Those constraints involve building the pipeline across mountainous terrain thousands of meters high. But China is fully capable of building at such heights, such as its high-speed rail construction in freezing conditions and low oxygen environment.

When situations become untenable due to the Middle East war prolonging and for future proofing, killing two birds with one stone may take place, which means constructing the Iran link to connect to the resurrected Gwadar Port line running towards Kashgar, China. This is just my thinking, and I am sure the Chinese are also looking forward as well to such a possibility.


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China is dominating in every sectors, including scientific paper. India can print fake degrees but not fake scientific papers

Weaponization of the US$ provided a means for the USA to punish other countries for a period of time, but the effect is waning as countries found ways to get around those sanctions. Needless to say, no country had ever collapse due to USA sanctions, and sanctioned countries are learning from the experience of those who would not fall. Hyping gloom and doom as a consequence of those sanctions is no more a fear factor to threaten countries today.

De-dollarization must be seen as a godsend as countries can now trade outside the US$ and avoid the sanctions, even as they are asking - who is next. The Iran War is going to see de-dollarization up a notch with Russia and Iran now selling oil in Yuan. This move by Russia and Iran is no small potato, as both are major oil producers. Other Gulf oil producers will in time have to consider accepting Yuan, (if they have not done so already), as a currency for settlement when selling oil to China, the biggest market by far.

I have been watching videos of the changing landscape around the world regarding who is dominating in which sector. There are indeed somewhat of a surprise for me that China has grown to dominate in so many sectors of the global landscape which is fermenting a natural worrying reaction by the USA. China's domination in churning out scientific papers in chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering and construction, which were the monopoly of the USA before, is now turned on its head. China has dominated the registration of patents (which is about new inventions) and is the top dog in this sector. China has stamped its domination in EVs, drones, shipbuilding and renewable energy harvesting, leaving the rest of the world fighting for runners-up position.


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Operation Kill Iranians - 65 days and still counting

 65 days into the killing of Iranians, and simultaneously killing Arabs and Muslims in Gaza, Palestine and Lebanon. No reporting by western media to many means the killing has stopped. That is the attention span of the braindead and unthinking. And there is a temporary ceasefire! Anyone knows what is the meaning of a ceasefire? Let me explain simply what this means. It is just a break for the killers to prepare for the next killing, a bigger killing with more weapons and firepower. Trump is ordering whatever troops, warplanes and warships he can ordered to the region for his next big game, to wipe out the Iranians as a civilisation. Just musing, is this a joke or another deadly case of stupidity cannot be cured? Are the Iranians preparing for their final termination by the American terrorists, still trusting the American and Israeli terrorists that they would be spared, to allow to exist as a people on this planet?

Pete Hegseth was telling his version of the truth in the Senate hearing. He was asked why are the American terrorists still killing Iranians when he claimed to have obliterated the Iranians nuclear facilities. Was not this objective achieved, to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons? His reply for continuing to want to kill the Iranians...the Iranians still have the ambition to want to have nuclear weapons, so must be killed to end their ambition. This is now the next reason to kill Iranians, not nuclear facilities, but Iranian ambition to have nuclear weapons. How did he know? He cooked it up. 

Before this Operation Kill Iranians, the Ayatollah, the highest authority in Iran, the spiritual leader, had forbade Iran from having nuclear weapons on religious ground. This is more powerful than any political undertaking. But lunatic Trump chose to disbelieve in this, and hellbent on killing Iranians by claiming that Iran is closed to having nuclear bomb, which the world knows is a big vicious American lie. Trump would not admit that he was taking orders from the Jews to kill Iranians.

There is a temporary pause now, a ceasefire, while Trump continue to amass his weapons, war machines and troops for the KILL, while pretending to be negotiating with the Iranians. Once beaten twice shy. Cheated twice and still wanting to believe the evil Americans and waiting to be cheated a third time is simply unbelieveable. How stupid can the Iranians be? Or how stupid the American terrorists think the Iranians are, to wait to be cheated for the third time? This third time is going to seal the fate of the Iranians, to fulfill Trump and Netanyahu's objective to wipe out the Iranians. Both have not change their positions. Pete Hegseth had said it out as clear as he could in the Senate. The ultimate goal is to kill all the Iranians by whatever excuses.

65 days have gone by without the American terrorists showing any sign of retreating. Their plans to continue to deceive the Iranians that peace is around the corner and planning for the Final Solution should the Iranians make a mistake. That is all that is needed to wipe out the Iranians. Just one mistake to finish them off for good, for the good of Israel and the American terrorists. And the Middle East will be at peace under the Order of Israel and American terrorist rule!

This day is approaching fast, with little resistance from the Arabs and Muslims, with some siding with the Americans quietly, some already in bed with the American terrorists and so happy about it. How many days would it take to wipe out the Iranian civilisation?

Trump's favourite game is called TACO

Trump did impose ban on Canadian oil earlier, but now chicken out as usual and in fact demanded that Canada sells more crude to USA. He thought Canada had no cards to play, but Mark Carney holds the trump card with his diversification of crude exports to other countries including China.

Trump's Art of the Deal is all based on empty threats and when countries fight back with alternatives, he caves like a house of cards. Trump does not know that the cards he holds are now basically all printed by others and they know what kind of card he holds and what sort of player he is. Those that he can bully, he will swallow them whole, flesh, bones and hair, like Japan and South Korea. Now the Europeans have also seen through his Art of the Deal and are retaliating. Trump's latest threat of a 25% tariff on European cars instead of the 15% is going to start another tariff war that will push the Europeans towards Asia, just like Canada. Trump will TACO as usual. Just watch. But sometimes, TACO is too late.

As I said before, this is no longer the era of the twentieth century where countries have no alternatives but to succumb to USA threats, having to rely largely on the USA market. That is no longer the case. When one door closes another open for them.


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