Posted on 03/24/2022 1:26:40 PM PDT by Mount Athos
A high-powered cross-party UK delegation to India led by the Commons Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, and his deputy has been called off at the last minute in a sign of a growing rift over India’s refusal to distance itself from the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The 10-strong delegation has been in discussion with India since January and was planning to visit Delhi and Rajasthan, but the Indian high commission is understood to have raised objections at the last minute.
Boris Johnson spoke with Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, on Tuesday in an attempt to use his influence to persuade India to take a more robust position over the Russian invasion. India has not imposed sanctions or even condemned Russia, its biggest supplier of military hardware.
The delegation had originally been envisaged as giving a nudge to encourage progress on a UK-India free trade deal, but the context of the visit changed after the invasion of Ukraine in February, and Britain’s leading role in supporting the armed resistance of the Ukrainians.
It was not clear if India’s issues were with individual members of the chosen delegation or related to a wider concern about British MPs being given a platform in India to urge Modi to take a more robust position.
Britain has been concerned by reports that India’s central bank is in initial consultations on a rupee-rouble trade arrangement with Moscow that would enable exports to Russia to continue after western sanctions restricted international payment mechanisms.
The talks would allow India to continue to buy Russian energy exports and other goods.
India may feel it cannot afford to alienate its main arms supplier.
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Our relationship with India was improving under Trump - now Biden has pushed them into the arms of China - and many others like Saudi Arabia.
It’s time to sanction Indian IT outsourcing oligarchs and cancel all H1B’s in order to reign in these enemies of our Democracy !
Notice how naturally the Brits assume India should do as they say. It’s like the Raj never ended.
If you were an Indian, why would you care at all about a Ukraine Russian dispute, or how the nation that enslaved you for 150 years felt about it? Pure hubris to expect India to jump into this.
BRICS nations are sticking together. No surprise.
Interesting, especially about China.
So now, a south Asian nation, refusing to support Ukraine against Russia, is endangering American “democracy”. Lol, ok...
Hahaha you are so incompetent you can’t even compete with those reject computer programmers from India.
I assume you are being funny
Exactly.
“It’s time to sanction Indian IT outsourcing oligarchs “
A lot of companies are now looking to India to replace the Ukraine outsource programmers.
Could be India wants to be the new “Switzerland”, neutral and un-aligned.
More evidence the obnoxious Boris Johnson isn't very competent.
Dumb move by dumb Johnson. Indians won’t take too kindly to being lectured by a former colonial master. Seens Johnson would prefer pommies to be shut out of a 1.4 billion people market for british goods and services.
Good luck with that Xi, Modi and Putin are cutting ties with the petrol dollar and central banking system for a gold backed currency. Look for Russia to force Germany to trade oil/gas for rubles in the near future. Bye bye NATO and the central banking system. Everyone will be going on the QFS or the QFS by a different name. Including the US.
UK hardly enslaved India.
Let’s not use commie rhetoric.
Bingo!
“So now, a south Asian nation, refusing to support Ukraine against Russia, is endangering American “democracy”. Lol, ok...”
So I guess the 1.3 BILLION people are Putin puppets too.
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