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India Eyes Latin America (Unambiguously good?)
Pajamas Media ^ | September 15, 2011 | Jaime Daremblum

Posted on 09/15/2011 6:30:33 PM PDT by decimon

The competition between China and India — the world’s largest dictatorship and the world’s largest democracy — will be a defining feature of 21st-century geopolitics. Because China opened its economy more than a decade before India did, the Middle Kingdom has a clear head start in the global battle for economic influence. Yet the South Asian giant is rapidly gaining ground on its northern neighbor, and over the long term its democratic system seems far more stable than the autocratic Chinese model. When assessing U.S. grand strategy in Asia, American policymakers view India as an important counterweight to China. Closer to home, India may also serve to balance Chinese economic clout in Latin America.

“China’s rise in bilateral trade with Latin America is the greatest of any region in the world — an astonishing 18-fold increase over the past decade,” Agence France-Presse reports. Chinese commodity demand has greatly boosted GDP growth in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, and other resource-rich countries, thereby lifting millions out of poverty. These economic benefits are worth celebrating. Yet Beijing’s burgeoning hemispheric footprint has prompted security concerns in Washington, since Chinese military and political ambitions remain so murky. Moreover, China is helping to prop up the Hugo Chávez regime in Venezuela, and it is also expanding cooperation with Chávez acolytes in Bolivia and Ecuador while strengthening ties with the Castro government.

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1 posted on 09/15/2011 6:30:36 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

India is truly entrepreneurial at the top layers.


2 posted on 09/15/2011 6:36:36 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (California: Making Texas more Conservative one voter at a time)
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To: freedumb2003

“India is truly entrepreneurial at the top layers.”

Only because of all the expertise they got from the H-1 visas and from the offshoring of American companies in India.

When China starts its cyberattacks against India, the first target will probably be call centers. That would be a benefit for us.


3 posted on 09/15/2011 6:42:16 PM PDT by oldbill
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To: decimon

Their call center workers will now be named “Jose”.


4 posted on 09/15/2011 6:43:39 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: oldbill; freedumb2003
Only because of all the expertise they got from the H-1 visas and from the offshoring of American companies in India.

Geez. India was entrepreneurial before the Romans ever went to England.
5 posted on 09/15/2011 6:44:35 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: decimon

Fracking India has all these highly educated people and cannot employ them except as call center monkeys for American corporations outsourcing their engineering jobs. Communist China is doing much better.

My former ex-company had call centers in India and development engineers in China and Singapore.


6 posted on 09/15/2011 6:46:50 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Revolting cat!
Fracking India has all these highly educated people and cannot employ them except as call center monkeys for American corporations outsourcing their engineering jobs.

Engineers don't work in call centers. And the job market for good engineers in India is apparently as hot now as it was here in Silicon Valley back in the '90s.

Communist China is doing much better.

They are in better shape. They freed up their economy earlier and as a dictatorship they don't need to worry what their people think before enacting economic policies.
7 posted on 09/15/2011 6:57:54 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: aruanan

“Forget it, he’s rolling.”


8 posted on 09/15/2011 6:59:47 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
Engineers don't work in call centers.

Software engineers do. Have known them, in fact they replaced me, or 50% of my job, anyway.

9 posted on 09/15/2011 7:00:15 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: decimon

Yes this is unambiguously good.


10 posted on 09/15/2011 7:01:22 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Revolting cat!

Your call-center job was lost to some Indian software engineers? Damn.


11 posted on 09/15/2011 7:03:46 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

I wasn’t in the call center, just IT, serving internal clients
and developing internal utility software. We (about two dozen of us out of
a <200 person IT Dept, all over 45) lost our jobs to Indian
monkeys who would stay on the job 6 months before moving on
to another call center of another U.S. corporation.


12 posted on 09/15/2011 7:19:01 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Revolting cat!
Software engineers do.

If they're working in call centers, what they're doing isn't software engineering.
13 posted on 09/15/2011 7:35:44 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: decimon

Hindu nationalism is no worst then Han chauvinism. Both Asian nations have spent the 20th Century at the heel of the West and those feelings do not disappear easily. China is trying to recover their “middle kingdom” status in Asia and India is trying to recover their dominance in SW Asia. I say approach both with both eyes open and not let the labels “democracy” for India and “free markets” for China hide the potential threat to the US when one of them vanquishes the other. If India played a key role in vanquishing China, they will not want to be a junior partner to the US. If China vanquishes India, they will definitely challenge the US if the US was backing up India.
Am I a bit cynical, Yes!! Was NATO thankful of US after the Soviet Union fell????? Was Japan humble when they overtook the US in the 1970’s????? Many forgot how the “so sorry Japanese of the 1960’s” started to strut about proclaiming that American lack ethnic purity and discipline of the Japanese to remain a superpower. What makes it an eye opener is Imperial Japan re emerge as they ascended and assume we were on the descent. Now that all suddenly disappear as Japan blew their economic wealth and now need the US to balance against the Chinese threat.
I know some freepers think I am a bit too cynical, but IMHO any power out of Asia, Africa and Latin/South America will not forget how they were treated by US and/or West in the last century. Those sentiments will come out when they think they are on the path to superpower and assume the US is going down. China, India, and Brazil are no different.


14 posted on 09/15/2011 8:30:13 PM PDT by Fee
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China tried this already, switched to Africa, which probably means, not such a great idea. :’) Thanks decimon.


15 posted on 09/18/2011 5:30:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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