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India surpassed China as the world’s most populous country in 2023, and barely anyone noticed. But iPINIONS contends the cartoon’s real irony is darker still: both Asian giants now face the same demographic trap… too few babies and too much geopolitical irony. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/er-india-has-more-people-than-china Read more.
As fate would have it, Trump just announced a “full and immediate ceasefire” between India and Pakistan. That’s welcome news — but no reassurance that the next crisis won’t be just as sudden… or just as explosive. This post remains essential reading because it explains how we got here, why the ceasefire won’t hold, and… Read more.
I’ve argued for years that annual G20 summits are much ado about nothing. But I’ve always recognized their one politically redeeming value. That used to be the opportunity for the world’s political power brokers to forge collegial relationships. Even that illusion has crumbled. G20 Summit India President Putin is AWOL. But he has been for years. This year, Russia’s genocidal… Read more.
Here in part is how The New York Times reported yesterday on this unfolding tragedy: _________ A deadly second wave of coronavirus infections is devastating India, leaving millions of people infected and putting stress on the country’s already overtaxed health care system. Officially, by the end of April, more than 17.9 million infections had been… Read more.
No doubt you’ve seen everyone in the media bending over backwards to avoid describing Kamala Harris as a Black woman. Here, for example, is the banner headline no less a media authority than The New York Times ran on Friday, hailing her historic election: Kamala Harris Makes History as First Woman and Woman of Color… Read more.
Or, perhaps more ominously, it’s aping the Hutu-Tutsi violence that played out in Rwanda. Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan have been laying sovereign claims to Kashmir, respectively, since 1947. This has caused three major wars and numerous skirmishes between them, and spawned a spate of terrorist attacks by Kashmiri separatist groups. This is why so… Read more.
India and Pakistan have been fighting over Kashmir ever since the British partitioned India in 1947. In fact, not since the Peloponnesian Wars has one divided nation fought so many wars to so little effect. To be fair, each side insists it has only ever engaged in defensive cross-border skirmishes. And nothing lends more credence… Read more.
America often boasts of being the oldest democracy, but India is the largest and most participatory. India demonstrated this in awe-inspiring fashion over the past five weeks as 550 million voters, representing 66.4 percent of the electorate, participated in a general election. By comparison, only 121 million voters participated in the 2012 U.S. general election,… Read more.
The media are focusing a considerable amount of attention on the atmospherics of President Obama’s state visit to India. They are making much ado, for example, of the fact that the shellacking he took at home in midterm elections last Tuesday meant that Obama arrived in India a few days ago with his tail between… Read more.
