Matches up perfectly with the historical take over of corporate America by Indian executives who spam Indian hires once in power. It’s really amazing how Indians have orchestrated this take over largely without triggering the sort of witch hunts that have been carried out whenever individuals of Chinese descent have gotten anywhere close to power.
As I’ve said in the past, the Indians play the real “soft power” game of infiltrating societies & taking them over from the inside. While Chinese play the “hard power” game of going head to head. Europeans/Americans, who fancy themselves a warrior culture, seem far weaker against the former than the latter especially when they are distracted.
The lesson is never underestimate Indians. Just because they don’t look great head to head doesn’t mean they aren’t proficient in other ways. As India’s demographics nears its peak and it looks to send more migrants around the world, countries in East Asia need to be vigilant lest they allow Indians to infiltrate them as well.
I think you greatly underestimate how China does things. China didn't always have greater hard power than US, so how did they achieve it if they did nothing but go hard power against hard power all the time?
Far from going only hard power, or even an analogy like chess or weiqi, China plays geopolitics more like a high complexity MOBA. The goal of such games is usually to build an insurmountable advantage by taking many individually small favorable engagements. Every action costs time/resources, top level players optimise their actions for maximum power gain.
Some people who have little clue about geopolitics thinks China just does nothing and wins, funnily enough that's usually what a grandmaster MOBA player dropped into a casuals lobby also appears to be: doing nothing and winning.
Because casuals don't see how the grandmaster optimises his actions and knows exactly which fights he can/should take. They just see him "get lucky" always getting away with 1 hp and always "accidentally" showing up in decisive situations. Then once he snowballs in strength, casuals can only see that he is stronger in stats, but don't ask why he snowballed in the first place. They think "oh if next time I can farm up as much as him, I'll dominate just as much".
This is very much like Indian strategists who think "if we had no1 economy instead of China, we'd be even more powerful than they are".
You saw what Indian soft power is worth in the last few weeks of news. That's because Indian national strategists play like impulsive chess players that always exchange pieces whenever a piece is offered, always priortise moving pieces to threaten enemy pieces, without ever taking into account the whole board or a grand strategy.
These "demographic dividend" they seeded in US is nothing but highly exploitable gaps that both India and US should have seen coming. White supremacist and "democratic" westerner will inevitably fight autocratic hindutva. In the process, the West's mask falls off to the global south.
Guess who that benefits.
But the beauty of impulsive chess players is that they only ever think in terms of 1 move, or at most 1 tactic. They take whatever is offered in front of them with no regard for the greater whole picture.
