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Just weeks before Ganesh Chaturthi, one of the country's biggest religious festivals honouring the Hindu deity Ganesha, floods have destroyed six months of his work.

The 40-year-old had completed about 500 clay idols of the elephant-headed god, worth around 800,000 rupees ($8,300; £6,200), which were due to be delivered across the western state of Maharashtra, where Raigad is located, over the coming weeks.

"But the flood washed everything away," he says. "We have no idols, no moulds and no raw material. We don't know how we'll fulfil the orders now."
 
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That is the Indians. They always seem to be in the way. Like they are an obstacle to any plan or arrangement.

Then when it comes to chipping in, they never chip in. Only want to grab stuff for themselves. The last part, cannot really blame them, after what the British did.

Still, it makes it a place for others to avoid.

The example I always bring up, is the RCEP negotiations. In the end, after two years of fruitless negotiations with India, after getting rid of them, finally the RCEP moved forward to completion. Without any of those importing more Indian clauses to the agreement, because India is not part of the RCEP.

Negotiations with India delayed RCEP implementation for two years.
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India is the biggest roadblock in BRICS and SCO.
 
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -- Alibaba's AliExpress was hit with a record 550 million euro ($629 million) fine from the European Union on Monday for failing to tackle sales of illegal, unsafe and counterfeit products on its platform.

The fine was the third issued by the European Commission under the EU's landmark Digital Services Act, which requires very large online platforms to do more to counter illegal and harmful content.

The Commission charged AliExpress in June last year with failing to comply with a key DSA requirement to assess and mitigate the risks of dissemination of illegal products.

It set an Oct. 20 deadline for AliExpress to propose remedial measures, and the company could face further penalties if the regulator decides in December that they do not comply with the DSA.

"This is very dangerous for consumers, unfair for companies which are complying with all our rules," EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen told reporters.
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Well there goes cheap consumer products for EU, everything selling to EU buyer should be priced in those illegal fines.
 
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Well there goes cheap consumer products for EU, everything selling to EU buyer should be priced in those illegal fines.
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There have been legitimate questions about the safety of some products on AliExpress & other sites like Temu and Amazon. The EU sometimes rightfully gets flak for being so trigger-happy with the fines but I think there is no reason to believe promoting a healthier ecosystem, with fines if need be, is a bad thing. Even if it ends up costing more, at least you can shop with the peace of mind that you're not getting a mystery mix of Group 1 carcinogens delivered to you.
 
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There have been legitimate questions about the safety of some products on AliExpress & other sites like Temu and Amazon. The EU sometimes rightfully gets flak for being so trigger-happy with the fines but I think there is no reason to believe promoting a healthier ecosystem, with fines if need be, is a bad thing. Even if it ends up costing more, at least you can shop with the peace of mind that you're not getting a mystery mix of Group 1 carcinogens delivered to you.
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If the purpose is to punish on low quality goods and encourage a general competitive market, then EU should promote an across-the-board contervailing per-unit tariff; rather than just fine a specific company. They neither have the gut nor the ability to do that, as it equals a full-on trade war with China.
 
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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2079164106158796874

A Chinese person claiming descent from the Yellow Emperor or the Shang kings would be far more credible because china actually has historical records and neolithic sites that correspond to legendary figures, not to mention the oldest Chinese surnames still survive to this day. Modern Zionists are simply white Europeans larping as Bronze Age Hebrews.
 
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