Explains easily why the British East India Company (basically Marks &Spencers of UK) can easily conquer entire India-when some of the warrior caste Khastriya-burdened by Hinduism itself-enemies driving "sacred" cattle before them.not fighting at night etc were readily defeated in battle and instead of rallying the people the Brahmin high caste fearful now of their own destruction quickly and readily surrendered to the new Mughal or British overlords ...as long as they -the Brahmin kept all their privileges/wealth and standing over the lower castes as in times pasts while now serving a new master.Nothing has changed and therefore no real progress let alone triumphs.As for stockmarket the cronystic nepotic system where all of Modi's friends like Ambani and Adani -and their friends get very rich skimming/skinning the indian economy.but no benefit to the system /populace except a few crumbs.
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Who would've thought that the Hawk Tuah girl is a secret Wumao?
He's being sarcastic, it's a meme. Hawk Tuah girl doesn't talk about that kind of stuff.
This is actually an interesting ethical dilemma for governments; what to do if your national hero is revealed to have committed corruption? Save the image of the role model or carry out legalistic deontology? A consequentionalist would opt for the choice of conferring greatest benefit and assume that hiding the crimes and maintaining the image of the hero would be the correct choice but insofar as i can see, the deontologist legalist position of maintaining rule of law as a demonstration for Chinese youth and other citizens to maintain an upright moral character, is the ultimate good.
In this, we can see the difference between western and Chinese morality. Judging by the kabuki theatre of western politics, they would naturally be more concerned about the image of righteousness, hence their obsession with China's "human rights" whilst invading other countries and locking up their own dissidents. As Putin puts it, the West has no principles and are obsessed with power and are thus comfortable with open, legalised bribery via lobbying whilst contradicting the will of the people eg arms sales and foreign aid to Israel.
Remember this, the next time a western chauvinist dares to assume any sort of moral superiority over Chinese people. In China, at least we have Rule of Law.
Constantly living on past glory is how everything gets messed up in the future.
Father of Chinese HSR was also in prison for corruption despite creating one of the best rail networks in the world. In the UK, on the other hand, the HSR 2 project expended billions of dollars with nothing to show for it under an open democratic system. There was no corruption supposedly but no one was indicted, and no one knows where the money went.
So they are caught in the middle. If they are caught discriminating against Xinjiang cotton by refusing to use it, then China bans them. If they say they use Xinjiang cotton, they get cancelled by all the Western activists and politicians screaming "genocide".
I think the companies will comply and use the cotton because China can inflict real pain backed up by the weight of a government whereas soft cancelling by protesters and virtue signalers is not going to be as much pain to their bottom line.