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2007-08-19 India-Pakistan

N-deal enters choppy waters: the implications

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Posted by john frum 2007-08-19 14:38|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Great article, john frum.

What will be the implications of the current political impasse for India's long term politico-diplomatic, strategic-security and trade-technology interests? The short answer is "adverse."

By distorting and deliberately altering the contours of the debate, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Left parties are acting in a manner detrimental to India's interests in the early part of the 21st century.

Wherever leftist and communist doctrine has shaped a country's formative years the result is always the same. Stunted, backwards, elitist tyrannies. Soviet Russia, China, Cuba all of them are stifled by archaic, outmoded methodologies and hidebound political caste systems.

The manner in which Dr Singh is being pilloried over the India-US deal proves the adage that honesty, personal integrity, merit and the larger national interest will always be trumped by narrow self-interest in the Indian political arena.

In Philippine-American politics this is known as The Crab Dance. It serves as an explanation of why there is such poor representation for such a substantial and well-established minority. In a barrel full of crabs there are usually one or two really energetic individuals who will attempt to escape their staved prison. Often, just as they begin to edge over the barrel's top, other crabs will see their imminent escape and attempt to ride their coattails by latching onto them for a free lift out of confinement. What happens is that the one or two potential escapees are inexorably dragged back down into the barrel to rejoin their docileand soon to be steamedcompanions. In the long run, The Crab Dance serves as a metaphor for how fragmented groups simply refuse to allow one portion of their number to succeed andby thwarting such ambitious individualsend up deleting all chances of group success. India excels at this in spades.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-19 17:02|| 2007-08-19 17:02|| Front Page Top

#2 It seems the nuclear deal is now gaining support from the Indian public... arcane nuclear technical details may be hard for the average Indian to understand, but if the communists are against it, many feel it must be good for India....

Posted by john frum 2007-08-19 17:30|| 2007-08-19 17:30|| Front Page Top

#3 The Japanese PM Abe will pay a visit to India soon and he will travel with investments.. Japan wants to build a massive freight corridor from Delhi to Mumbai that will have manufacturing hubs along its length.
This will really kick start Indian export manufacturing and reduce Japanese reliance on China for low cost labor.

Expect to see the communists do all they can to derail this. When a Japanese minister visited India about 2 years ago, accompanied by business executives, he advocated increased Japanese investments in India.

That did not sit too well with China. The Indian communists and union leaders were summoned to Beijing. When they returned to India, a wave of wildcat strikes affected the plants of Japanese companies in India.

Posted by john frum 2007-08-19 17:37|| 2007-08-19 17:37|| Front Page Top

#4 This will really kick start Indian export manufacturing and reduce Japanese reliance on China for low cost labor.

I'm hoping that with such a boost in exports there will be a reciprocal loosening of India's draconian import laws. Unlike China, India's lack of a wholely anti-capitalist communist government might explain the overwhelming absence of institutionalized intellectual property theft, copyright violation and product counterfeiting.

India's average per capita income of US$3,100 versus China's US$5,600 (2004-2005 numbers), makes Asia's largest English speaking democracy a major player in the expanding off-shore manufacturing market.

Expect to see the communists do all they can to derail this.

A particularly appropos choice of words. Fortunately, Britain's historic legacy of colonial rail infrastructure leaves little doubt that India can readily recognize the worth of such a transport corridor. All that remains is the establishment of a free-enterprise zone astride the track-bed and solid incentives for foreign investment.

It would be a genuine pleasure to see newly arrived India sit down and eat China's lunch at the global table. The cast iron rice bowl of Beijing's currency manipulation and monopolistic practices needs to be shattered at the earliest opportunity.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-19 18:32|| 2007-08-19 18:32|| Front Page Top

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