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Strangelove said:

Also funny is that the folks at BlackRock, supposedly no-nonsense and hard-numbers investors, fell for the ideological propaganda about India being the next economic supapowa and will whoop Chinese ass.

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It's not ideological, just logical.
India has a lot of development ahead of itself. If the country can improve itself, It's a big opportunity financially speaking. If the population can be uplifted, they will want to buy nicer clothes, bikes, cars, etc. Just like the development path of China. So what is the problem?

ZeEa5KPul said:

A thoroughly amusing article. Some highlights:

A law enforcement agency doing its job or a shakedown?

I find it funny that they think they have 50% of their investment still good.

But all that is just me throwing shade on India. Here we come to some actual facts:



@siegecrossbow talks about American business leaders being Legendary Wumaos. Here we have an American Legendary JH:

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As the article mentions, India's biggest shortcoming is the top-heavy economy. It has been the case for decades. The government (and it doesn't matter which party it is) always wants to take a shortcut, never wants to put in the work, and far too often chases "prestige". I remember the 90's the belief was that the IT outsourcing boom would allow India to skip the need for "old-school" industrialization like China with factories. Now we see it has stalled and hit a ceiling.

It is more obvious with the military. In the 90's the Su-30MKI was heralded as the beginning of Indian Air Supremacy. As equipped, it was outclassing anything except JASDF F-2 and USAF F-22. Russia had agreed to far more generous technology transfer terms to India compared to China's MKK as well. Clearly Russia was more fearful of Chinese domestication efforts relative to India's, and history showed that they were correct. Even today India cannot produce a fully domestic Su-30, while Denio can produce a whole book on China's family of Flankers. Even on the low-end it's bad. Pakistan can field a good number of JF-17 and actively upgrading it, while the Tejas is in production hell.

The Navy always had aircraft carriers, and the contemporary Delhi class DDG was more capable than the Shenzhen. Problem with both systems is that they were basically imports. The Shenzhen might have had crappy 37mm AA guns, but at least they were *domestic* crappy 37mm AA guns... The Delhi was all imported subsystems in an Indian shell.

Poles renaming Kaliningrad to the Polish name from the 15th century. Either they want to pointlessly poke Russia or they want to escalate in seeking medical radiation assisted suicide.

Officials have been instructed to call Kaliningrad by its Warsaw-preferred name, ‘Krolewiec’

Poland’s decision to call the Russian city of Kaliningrad ‘Krolewiec’, as it was known in the 15th century, “borders on madness,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. Warsaw objects to the city’s current name because of its association with a Soviet statesman, whom Warsaw blames for the massacre of captured Polish officers under Joseph Stalin.

From Tuesday, Polish officials are required to call Kaliningrad by one of its multiple historic names, Krolewiec. The change also applies to Kaliningrad Region, the Russian exclave which is now referred to in Poland as ‘obwod krolewiecki’, or Krolewiec Oblast.

The recommendation was issued last month by the Polish national body responsible for foreign toponyms, local media reported this week. The country's geographic standardization committee claimed the city’s current name is “artificial” and cited the conflict in Ukraine as contributing to its decision.

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Chevalier said:

it doesn’t matter if 200,000 years have passed; those native Americans were kin and the anglos and Europeans owe a blood debt.

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It's true.

Some of the first humans in the Americas

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, study finds​

Some of the first humans to arrive in the included people from what is now China, who arrived in two distinct migrations during and after the last ice age.

“Our findings indicate that besides the previously indicated ancestral sources of Native Americans in Siberia, the northern coastal also served as a genetic reservoir contributing to the gene pool,” said Yu-Chun Li, one of the report authors.

Li added that during the second migration, the same lineage of people settled in Japan, which could help explain similarities in prehistoric arrowheads and spears found in the Americas, and Japan.

It was once believed that ancient Siberians, who crossed over a land bridge that existed in the Bering Strait linking modern Russia and Alaska, were the sole ancestors of Native Americans.

More recent research, from the late 2000s onwards, has signaled that more diverse sources from Asia could be connected to an ancient lineage responsible for founding populations across the Americas, including in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico and California.

Known as D4h, this lineage is found in mitochondrial DNA, which is inherited only from mothers and is used to trace maternal ancestry.

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The team from the Kunming Institute of Zoology embarked on a 10-year hunt for D4h, combing through 100,000 modern and 15,000 ancient DNA samples across Eurasia, eventually landing on 216 contemporary and 39 ancient individuals who came from the ancient lineage.

FriedButter said:

Poles renaming Kaliningrad to the Polish name from the 15th century. Either they want to pointlessly poke Russia or they want to escalate in seeking medical radiation assisted suicide.

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Somehow getting real sick of the Polish barking around. Going to take some sick pleasure one day when Russia is done with Ukraine and finally decides that Poland needs a bit of de-nazification, starting with the top and with maximum carnage. Hopefully that will shut them up because all the west knows how to do is yapping about this and that well sanctioning this and that and crossing red lines thinking they are invincible. Really, I am starting to fantasize about the likes of Ursula screaming like a banshee when she sees a Russian drone come right at her to say hi, that would be a sight for sore eyes because that woman causes untold damage to the world just be opening her mouth

Strangelove said:

Not weird at all.... Indian IT tech isn't really IT tech, it's business process outsourcing (BPO), which is essentially glorified data entry for payroll, accounting, customer support, telemarketing etc. BPO is low margin and low sophistication, and even Filipinos can do it (as all you need is basic English ability, grade school maths & Excel skills), thus competing with the Indians for pennies in this low-end market.

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Short story; I used to work in a call centre years back in Australia and management tried to outsource to India and the Philippines and south Africa for cheaper rates but the Australian customers were so irredeemably racist that the moment they heard an accent they went into a racist tirade and tanked the company’s ratings.

Bellum_Romanum said:

Which what concerns me is that due to the advances in AI LLM like ChatGPT and others like it wouldn't this field be severely impacted which would drastically affect countries like India and the Philippines business of call centres and these typr of business? Please, correct me if my understanding of this issue is incorrect.

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You forget another key function these call centres serve in the western world, and that is unpaid psychologists for the plethora of Caucasian and Indian “Karens”. Again, anecdotally a lot of the difficult callers were Caucasian women who missed a lexapro prescription and Indian men who relished the chance at picking on a poor customer service soul.

It seems since Beijing sees no point discussing anything with anglos who are not agreement capable, that the US ambassador is forced to do “day in the life” like a Tiktoker as his day to day

Hamburg Port sale to go ahead at a 24.9% stake to Cosco.

ZeEa5KPul said:

A thoroughly amusing article. Some highlights:

A law enforcement agency doing its job or a shakedown?

I find it funny that they think they have 50% of their investment still good.

But all that is just me throwing shade on India. Here we come to some actual facts:



@siegecrossbow talks about American business leaders being Legendary Wumaos. Here we have an American Legendary JH:

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The Legendary JH quickly turn Legendary Wumao when they realize that the latter actually helps them make money.

Chevalier said:

Short story; I used to work in a call centre years back in Australia and management tried to outsource to India and the Philippines and south Africa for cheaper rates but the Australian customers were so irredeemably racist that the moment they heard an accent they went into a racist tirade and tanked the company’s ratings.

You forget another key function these call centres serve in the western world, and that is unpaid psychologists for the plethora of Caucasian and Indian “Karens”. Again, anecdotally a lot of the difficult callers were Caucasian women who missed a lexapro prescription and Indian men who relished the chance at picking on a poor customer service soul.

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It seems since Beijing sees no point discussing anything with anglos who are not agreement capable, that the US ambassador is forced to do “day in the life” like a Tiktoker as his day to day

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To be fair, most aussies would prefer to deal with people that don’t sound like telemarketers that are trying to sell bullcrap. In the beginning wasn’t much but when you deal with their accents and their lack of knowledge and general uselessness for decades, any person in Australia (Asian or not) would slam down the phone in an instant. I have developed a special hatred for India callers and Taiwanese and Philippino callers because they always intend to do the same thing and not once are they ever helpful because they never get to the point which most people would perfer. I have yet to run into a Chinese caller that does the same thing though. To be honest, I believe telemarketing in Australia is one of the most hated professions there because every time you hear their accent, you know the drill already. Not saying that Australia is racist (which they are but thankfully not to American levels), but on this one thing, I can strangely understand where the desire to throttle the caller comes from and this is basically for every telemarketer (who are almost all From India, Philippines and Taiwan and the like ) even Aussie telemarketers are not safe and I always seem to throw the phone down regardless of which one it is because they are that annoying

Eventine said:

India is about 20 years behind China. China wasn't that relevant in cutting edge technology R&D 20 years ago, either. It's just not at the same stage of development, which is an all of society problem that IT out sourcing can't solve. The top talent from India do not stay in India. They certainly don't work for Indian companies.

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India today, with its caste system and religious fanatacism is closer to the late Qing Dynasty than PRC 2023.

Bellum_Romanum said:

I am quite intrigued and interested to see and read what you've been reading about India, since you tend to keep hyping up these countries like Russia, Germany, and now India as if Indians have already arrived as the powerhouse economic bloc that they think they are. The number of actually middle class that can afford all these western products to sustain, support, and replace Chinese consumers is simply not there yet in every meaningful way as actual STATS bear that out. Yet here you are keeping up the charade and facade of Indian economic heft when it's just not there yet. Unless you have a set of data that you'd care to share with us that can sway our opinion on this matter then please I for one would love to see them.

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You really need statistics for some thing so obvious. Arabic airlines have asked for more flight access to India.
India still hesitant to give more access as it has placed large orders for its own airlines but Emirates is saying that even if India has all the airlines it still need more capacity. These Arabic airlines plan to train country specific crews with contracts. Emirates and the people behind it have very deep insight into both West and India. They know culture , family values there impact on demographic trends. This Saudi aviation strategy created a while ago. they already ordered upto 120 Boeing 787 for $37b but that is just beginning. It will be historic shift of population towards West.



Countries like Vietnam, Indonesia , Turkey or Mexico can do all the manufactured exports but once it come into that high paid in person jobs. these are all Indians. Thats why India can afford those Gold imports, purchase high net worth real estate , travel more often with families and afford more international education.