tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post924764391737584900..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: The Next Step in the Indo-Chinese Arms Race - India Fears It's Losing.The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-26289794313409023882014-01-28T12:51:11.490-08:002014-01-28T12:51:11.490-08:00Now there's a heartwarming depiction, PLG, a d...Now there's a heartwarming depiction, PLG, a destabilized, nuclear-armed India and a perpetually destabilized, nuclear-armed Pakistan. What could possibly go wrong?The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-11458156518196865612014-01-28T00:49:47.901-08:002014-01-28T00:49:47.901-08:00Two can play that game. India is busy displacing ...Two can play that game. India is busy displacing lots of its locals that are sitting on resources big companies want. They have tribal rebellions and even Communist insurgencies on a significant scale. They play silly buggers the way you're talking, China could funnel arms to plenty of people who could make India's life hell.<br /><br />Couple of caveats about that article, although I agree with the general worrying thrust. First, it seems to be claiming that India could learn how to save money in its defense budget from . . . the US. Say what?<br /><br />Second, it says "both countries are undergoing a transition process towards becoming great powers". I don't believe both countries are. Frankly, India strikes me as being on an economic road to nowhere. Its GDP has been growing fairly fast of late years, true. But compare: China's growth has involved massive increases in industrial production, huge investment in infrastructure, broad-based advances in technology, and despite huge dislocations and contradictions, massive numbers of people being lifted out of poverty. India on the other hand seems to have just a thin layer of prosperous economy papering over a gaping chasm of ever-increasing poverty. Their growth is foreign-dominated and a fair amount seems to be just on paper. The rural majority is just getting worse off, as are many of the impoverished urban slumdwellers if that's even possible. It's like they went straight from rural agricultural economy to neoliberal rip-off economy without ever building a productive modern economy that can sustain being ripped off for a while. There's an educated elite but it's thin and seems to me like a classic third world decadent comprador class rather than a national bourgeoisie with a real national project. This is a generalization which may not apply to some provinces--but Kerala can't carry the country by itself. I think India is headed for serious internal turmoil and a hard economic landing.Purple library guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01930984683714519212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-47399539894971136102014-01-27T19:05:14.814-08:002014-01-27T19:05:14.814-08:00If India wants to really deal with the problem of ...If India wants to really deal with the problem of China and their use of Pakistan as their stalking horse, its easy. Just ensure the tribals go into China to do what the do so well in other countries. Once China is full occupied in dealing with the various tribal terrorists, India can get on with the business of life.e.a.f.noreply@blogger.com