India oh India! LOL... You just gotta give it to India. It was able to pull off the con of the century!
For those who accuse China of being a land of scammers and thieves for 5000 years. (Yeah Marsha Blackburn, I'm looking at you!) Well folks, you ain't seen nothing yet! You have the one and only: India!
Well Indian call-center scammers are infamous alright. But then there is a scam so much worse in magnitude. India had pulled the world, into its con of the century by making everyone think its gonna be the next big thing. India had the luck of having a population size similar to China, and some bright people (in the past) to put up a convincing act. India's big fake news network in Western media and institutions did a great job too. But its all a big con actually. Here is the list of the biggest cons India had managed to pull off:
1) India had conned Russia and China into believing that it would be a trustworthy partner in the alternative bloc that they are building. Russia transferred much technology to India. And endorsed India's ascendancy into a number of multilateral institutions like the UNSC, BRICS, SCO, etc. China for its part was conned into investing huge sums of money into India's economy via FDI and other ventures. China trusted India to be getting friendlier for decades. So much so that their border forces facing India was kept at minimal strength until 2017. And there was practically little to no anti-Indian fervor in China before Modi came.
Now its flipped on its head. India is part of team QUAD now, with Uncle Sam, Japan, and Australia. Russia's biggest enemies in the world and in the East. India is putting wartime level military strength on the Indo-China border. India supports Tibetan, HK, Xinjiang, and Taiwanese separatism directly and indirectly. So much for being a trustworthy partner. China and Russia had to learn the hard way, of the good old Indian backstab.
2) India conned the world that it's a peace-loving world's biggest democracy. The West and sophisticated societies in the East would always imagine India as the land of peace and benevolence. The country of Mahatma Gandhi, Namaste, Gurus, Yoga, and Ayurveda. Good, if only a few inconvenient truths did not exist. Things like: the caste system, anti-Chinese pogroms after the 1962 war, anti-Muslim pogroms from independence till today, brutal occupation of Kashmir, Hindutva, slavery, deliberate perpetuation of poverty, scam call centers, farmer riots, worker riots, gangster politicians, and many more.
3) India conned the world that it is the next big thing after China. When China was thundering ahead to become the world's second biggest economy. Many of the folks in the 'free world' were perplexed, terrified and angry. This is so wrong! How could a non-Caucasian, one-party Communist state be so successful as to compete with USA no.1? Enter India, the savior, the other country on earth with a population to match China's. But more importantly, its a democratic country; in fact the world's biggest democracy! Yes, this is their hope to counter the rise of China! Politicians, businessmen, journalists, and intellects in the West start to make bold predictions that India would be the next China. Not only that, because its a democracy, it would overtake China and save the 'free world'!
When India heard these wonderful praises, it's Jai Hind ego ballooned to grotesque proportions. India Superpower! India has arrived! As many people in India and the West like to shout aloud. Believing in its own over-inflated hype, India did little to nothing to improve on key economic drivers. Things like infrastructure, education, structural government reform, and social reform. India is already 'perfect'. Its upper and middle class could consider themselves in the same league as Western elites. What about the lower classes and the undesirables? Don't worry, we just don't need to count them in. Corporations from the West, Japan, and South Korea all lined up to get a piece of India's 'gigantic market'. For decades they invested and listened to Indian promises. For sure some have made some decent business. But there are also big failures like GM, Apple iPhones, and Wal-Mart. Nevertheless, successful or not, all of them must be wondering. Why is India still not giving them the same level of riches that China had already given them? Should they be more patient? I say to them: If you want to continue trusting Indian promises, then keep waiting.
India's economic story is not following the script as of 2020. It's perhaps the worse performing major economy in 2020. No BRI, no RCEP, rejection of most of Asia except for Japan and South Korea. What economic future is there for India? The West? Yeah right! And yet many people are still believing in India's promise? Sigh...
4) India sells to the world that its rise would spell the end of China. The most celebrated Indian 'China-killer' is: Make In India. India had the demographic advantage over China isn't it? So it must be 'God's will' that all that manufacturing will move from China to India. Apple certainly believed it. But then it had to endure the infamous worker riots. Is it also 'God's will' that manufacturing in India just hasn't really taken off as India repeatedly promised? If India had achieved at least half of its Make In India promise, we wouldn't be talking so much about Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Indonesia today.
Then the other big con-job: Jio 5G. Touted as India's 'Huawei Killer' to finally give the 'free world' an alternative to Huawei's 5G dominance. Forget Nokia and Ericsson 5G! Reliance's Jio 5G is the 'big one'! So-called using fully indigenous Indian technology but also collaborating with Samsung and Qualcomm. The promise was so great that Google invested $4.4 bil into Jio 5G. Huawei could have been concerned, if only it wasn't another of Mukesh Ambani's con job. That '5G' in the Jio 5G is not true 5G actually. Its actually just an uprated 4G network described in typical confusing Indian fashion, that it makes it sound legit. Kinda like AT&T's 5G. Good luck to Google and others who wanna bet on Jio 5G. Believing in yet another Indian promise. LOL!
India tells the world that it has a 'superior military' to China. Everything from Rafale jets to Jawans is being described as giving India an 'advantage' over China. Well, from the many posts on this thread. Many have already seen how this false picture is being dismantled day after day.
Jai Hind!