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This has been something on my mind, and would like to get off my chest right now.
Right or wrong, this is what I believe will happen.
India, will be like China in the 1960's and 1970's.
What China did under Mao, was undeniably moving forward.
However, China remained really very poor, because the rest of the world was doing far better.
What was China doing back then, was nothing compared to what other countries were doing, yet there was progress. Progress to more poverty and continuous exodus of the best and brightest.
The Indians do not realize that today.
Sure, things can change.
We just need to see evidence. That is lacking.
China in 1960's and 1970's had higher life expectancy and literacy than India in the 2000's despite China fighting Taiwanese piracy that prevented trade with the rest of the world due to Taiwan hijacking western ships trying to trade with China.
India can only dream of getting anywhere near the progress that China made in the 1960's and 1970's.
Indians keep bragging that they had $50 more in GDP per capita than China in 1970. Let's just say that was true. So what? Small differences in GDP per capita are meaningless. You look at social indicators and they say that India is basically 1980's China right now. So they went from being 40 years behind in 2000, to still being 40 years behind.
And that 40 years, is not the same as this 40 years. It is much harder for India to go from 1980's China to 2020's China than it was for India to go from 1960's China to 1980's China between 2000 and 2020.
Meanwhile the great Bharat Supapowar is still perfecting the AMCA on the drawing board. So that when it makes its maiden flight, it's going to be the bestest supa dupa fighter aircraft ever.
What 5th gen Turkish fighter? It's actually still just a 4th gen fighter. Like the J-20 and F-35. AMCA instead is gonna skip 5th gen, and become a 6th gen fighter. Because BS Dhanoa and the Indian Airforce are gonna say so.
Right. The natural gas in TANAP comes from deposits in Azerbaijan. Which cannot cover EU gas demand. The largest gas deposits in Central Asia are in Turkmenistan. Those could theoretically cover EU demand. But you can't build a gas pipeline under the Caspian Sea from Turkmenistan to Azerbaijan unless all the nations bordering the Caspian Sea agree. And this includes Russia and Iran. This is what the US originally wanted to do with the Nabucco Pipeline. Good luck with that. There is also the little detail that all the Turkmenistan gas is already bought and paid for by China for the next decades.
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The Turkish "5th gen fighter" is probably a BAE project.
Russia's next goals: Transnistria, then Odessa? Transnistria is quite close to Odessa on the map.
I'm shocked, shocked, to find out that google has been in cahoots with CIA and NSA since the very beginning, like some other Silicon Valley projects have!
Reddit will have an IPO soon. Make sure you read this post before you debate with someone on it again.
The evolving list of "Chinese threats":
This most recent robotic moon landing failed again.
So that's at least one thing India can boast about, after China they are the only country to successfully soft land on the moon this century with Chandrayaan-3 last year. The recent flurry of landers: Luna 25 from Russia, Smart from Japan, Peregrine and Odysseus from US all failed for one reason or another.
So that's at least one thing India can boast about, after China they are the only country to successfully soft land on the moon this century with Chandrayaan-3 last year. The recent flurry of landers: Luna 25 from Russia, Smart from Japan, Peregrine and Odysseus from US all failed for one reason or another.
UK is still a hotspot for global money laundering and corruption. Finance wise, they are eons ahead of India and most other countries. They wield a lot of power around the globe through these mechanisms.
France's spot on UNSC is questionable though. Apart from their (neo) colonies in West Africa, they don't have much influence on the world anymore.
Here's one of the prominent "economic historian, blogger, author, pundit" Adam Tooze on why CHINA was always destined to reach its then untapped potential and the behemoth that is China. Why India will always be a laggard behind China as it has been since the 2 countries became independent.