The Indian government is building mass detention camps after almost two million people were told they could be effectively stripped of citizenship. Around 1.9m people in the north-eastern state of Assam were excluded when India published the state’s final National Register of Citizens (NRC) list in August. Those excluded from the register will have to […]
U.S/India Bilat – President Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
Kashmir on the Edge of the Abyss by Tariq Ali…
In an unsettled world, amid violent wars and imperial occupations, with all norms ruthlessly cast aside, did Kashmir really have a chance to be free? As unrest spreads, India, the vaunted “world’s largest democracy,” has imposed a total communications blackout. Kashmir is cut off from the world. With even the most conciliatory and collaborationist political […]
India Will Come to Regret Today’s Annexation of Jammu and Kashmir…
The right-wing nationalist Hindutva government of India under Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi just revoked autonomy for Jammu and Kashmir. This will create a civil war that could easily evolve into new conflict between the nuclear armed India and Pakistan. A bit of history is necessary to understand the issue: At the time of the […]
India Strips Disputed Kashmir of Special Status…
India’s government revoked disputed Kashmir’s special status with a presidential order Monday as thousands of newly deployed troops arrived and internet and phone services were cut in the restive Himalayan region where most people oppose Indian rule. Home Minister Amit Shah announced the revocation amid an uproar in India’s Parliament and while Kashmir was under […]
India Ambassador Praises House for Outsourcing U.S. College Jobs to Indian…
“I must compliment the U.S. House of Representatives for adopting the Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants bill which removes country caps on the H1B visas,” Indian ambassador Harsh Shringla told a D.C. meeting of lobbyists and advocates on Tuesday. He continued: “I think this is an important initiative. We have worked with congressmen across the […]
Sen. Chuck Grassley Denounces ‘EB-5’ Giveaway to China Hidden in India Outsourcing Bill…
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley is throwing a flag on the stealth push by technology investors to expand the unregulated U.S.-India outsourcing economy. The business-backed bill to expand the binational outsourcing economy, titled HR.1044, quadruples the supply of valuable green cards to Indian workers who agree to take college-level jobs from American graduates. On July 10, […]
Now It Makes Sense – Beijing Assigned Hardline Trade Handler to Vice-Premier Liu He…
We had to wait a few weeks to see how the Beijing communists and Xi Jinping hardliners were positioned for new trade talks; and now things make sense. Initially it seemed at odds with Beijing’s prior position to restart U.S-China trade negotiations with Vice-Premier Liu He. The prior three months of negotiation came to a […]
Alliances – Tokyo Electron Will Not Provide Semiconducter Equipment to Trump Blacklist Chinese Clients…
There’s always a larger geopolitical dynamic when you assess the economic alliances that President Trump puts together…. Always and underlying plan… Sometimes it just takes time to surface. As we have noted, even going back to 2017, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe always appeared to be the fulcrum for President Trump’s Indo-Pacific strategy. Remember the […]
Oil Falls 4 Percent as Trump Allows Some Countries to Import More Iranian Oil…
Oil prices fell close to 4 percent to their lowest in more than two months on May 30 as the administration of President Donald Trump said it’s allowing several countries to import some more Iranian oil without triggering U.S. sanctions. Upon the news, Brent Crude, the leading oil futures index, fell about $2.6, or about […]
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