Posted on 01/02/2023 5:19:00 AM PST by FarCenter
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Another important factor not to be neglected is India. This year will likely be remembered for marking its emergence as the world's most populous nation.
According to the U.N., China's population last year was 1.426 billion while India's was 1.417 billion. In July, the U.N. forecast that China's population would fall in 2023 while India's would surpass it. By 2050, the U.N. expects India will have 1.6 billion residents and China 1.3 billion.
A growing working-age population is an important source of economic growth, so India's emergence will give it new power in international politics.
While India's border disputes with China along the Himalayas fester, New Delhi has drawn closer to the U.S. and its military allies. This could help deter Beijing from military adventurism in Taiwan or elsewhere.
Moreover, decoupling between the U.S. and China and the rebuilding of technology supply chains to exclude China benefits India. Apple is building iPhone 14s in India. Natarajan Chandrasekaran, chairman of Indian conglomerate Tata Sons, has talked of plans to produce semiconductors on the subcontinent.
The strength of India is its independent diplomacy. While a member of the Quad with the U.S., Japan and Australia, it participates in military drills with Russia and imports weapons and oil from Moscow. Despite its border dispute with Beijing, India respects the BRICS framework, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined Russian President Vladimir Putin and Xi at a bloc summit in June.
In March, India will host the plenary session of the Trilateral Commission for the first time. This year, it is also chairing the Group of 20, a role that will involve a leaders' summit and many ministerial meetings. The Modi government will be eager to show leadership ahead of India's own elections in 2024.
The new year thus could mark the beginning of a tripolar world, involving the U.S., China and India. New Delhi is undeniably on the rise.
Both China and India are our enemy, and the sooner people realize that, the sooner that we can stop all commerce with them. We should not be importing cheap products from China, nor cheap labor from India. Both will cause our demise.
I’ve said that for years, but apparently I’m just racist.
If India can put the work capable portion of 1.4 billion people to work we can put our work capable people to work and slash our welfare costs.
I’d say all the US energy we’re exporting from the US to the EU makes the US an an annex of the EU, not the reverse.
I can’t say I spend big bucks on semiconductors.
I can say I spend big bucks on K-12 public education.
“White” countries are purposely destroying themselves. Globalism can only rise and be accepted when nearly everywhere is equally crappy.
There’s zero chance the intelligent people in Britain think bringing in Pakis, Indians, and Africans will improve their country.
Not a single EU country, or the whole lot of them collectively, can defend Europe. This is what Russia ended up pulling back on the curtain to show.
El Paso and Ciudad Juarez have people to spare.
Send them to India.
There was a posting the other day on how incompetent Indian IT engineers are.....written by an Indian engineer IIRC.
Trump knew that back in 2016.
Joe Biden knew that since he entered politics.
Ukrainians are showing that the will to defend is key.
Indian IT people
In my day they were viewed as nearly worthless. Nowadays there are good ones.
I was on that thread as well. Thank you for telling me though.
Our reliance on foreign workers and foreign production of goods is going to cost us big time.
We had people sounding a warning, but we didn’t listen…
There are Pakis that came to England and Mexicans let into the US that figured out that textiles can be made cheaper in Pakistan and produce grown cheaper in Mexico.
The Democrats know how to conjure up electronic money.
A sus tareas amigos.
Ross Perot was right.
“Cheap products from China”
are no longer available.
You ain’t alone.
It seems anyone who appreciates and wants to preserve the nation they grew up in is a troglodyte & should be banned from polite society.
Thanks to its abortion policy, China is about to become a nation of grandpas and grandmas.
India now has the youth demographic to crush the old goat ChiComms in a land war.
There aren’t any viable invasion routes between China and India. Consult topographical maps of Pakistan, Tibet and Myanmar.
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