Ramachandra Guha's sleight on Rahul Gandhi has made people reassess RG and it has worked in his favour. Looking back, I think I was wrong to see Guha's hatchet job as a sabotage. It might be a clever attempt to get attention on RG. Last night was revealing for other reasons too. India doesn't want to stand too close to Pakistan in these times. For a legitimate reason. India manages to keep safe distance from the Pakistani terror factories through a complex balancing act. Current government, despite its positive limelight at this time, has manipulated the actual mandate and undermined it. And that mandate is far more fierce and dangerous if they consider India as hostile or undermining their claim to power. There are things that India can still do, but then, I am too far out to send my brain farts. For now, it remains on Pakistan to find other industries that can overtake its security business importance. Not yet visible on horizon sadly. Americans are desperate to get a one up on China. And they need 3-4 years for it. Meanwhile, China is one, max two years away from ensuring its development model to continue irrespective of rest of the world, mostly the western world. One of the most critical components of Chinese capabilities is its EUV machine. For USA, the challenge is to delay it or sabotage it. And it is running out of time. The only possibility it has to disrupt China is to weaponize space. That will bring about a clash of titans. Chinese interference in Indian economy and politics will grow now. I had written in past also about the need for a strong India for a prosperous China. Unfortunately, the simulatenous rise of both power powers didn't happen. India chose a servile path to predictability alongside a crumbling empire. Chinese and Indian social media ecosystems are almost entirely separate. But Indians dominate the mass/volume of the global interface for the Chinese. Besides, the great Chinese wall isn't that unbreachable. Indians have responded with raising a terrible stink to Chinese attempts of infiltrating with their propaganda campaigns at higher levels. Chinese attempts for a high quality heli-dropping of propaganda has slowed down for now, but it will return. Indian side lacks the depths and variety in arsenals. My fear is Chinese side will sidestep the routine propaganda and go for serious below-the-radar sabotage where they have a massive edge now. Is it possible that India is looking at a situation where a clean face becomes the PM and the current prick face becomes the President for life sort of thing? Initial thoughts. This might be a simple way to get rid of the American blackmail of this moron. Or the more likely path of a massive crackdown and rise of single party dictatorship?
