Since 2013, I've attended >50 discussions on National Security & Foreign policy, & never heard "Non-alignment" mentioned. We have to move from philosophy to benefits & costs of alternative policy choices:(1) Increase defence budget, by reducing subsidies?(2)Repeal all economic...
2/pol (2) Repeal all econ (cntrl) laws, except those designed for a)health, safety & security, (b) Environment & pollution (c) Public goods & services, (d) externalities, to generate GDP, revenues & employment. (3) Simplify tax & welfare transfer system (#NIT). vote
3/ Please 🙏🏼 read both tweets in thread 👆🏼before #voting and Retweeting for others to vote 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
4/please read this thread and vote at tweet 2. 👆🏼Are we willing to pay the economic costs of a harder line with china which requires raising defence/gdp ratio and reducing subsidies & transfers, thorough economic reform & radical bureaucratic reform
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3/HP "Western Woke intellectuals, media and politicians (🍉🍉🍉) exaggerated random lynchings and over-generalized from few hate speeches; we should not follow their despicable example"
Upside potential & downside risks have been more or less equal since the start of the financial year (in April 2023) ecoti.in/u6n-Ub
2/IndEc A ringing endorsement👍🏼 for FDI into India by US & EU(+UK) MNCs, by four professors, in the Harvard Business Review (#HBR) 👌🏼 hbr.org/2023/06/does-y…
3/IndEc The more that US business, entrepreneurs & professionals learn about Indian infrastructure, digital economy, financial system and Green ambitions, the more #FDI will flow into manufacturing.
One should be inured to the pro-China, anti-India, bias of the Anglo Saxon world, & its subalterns [ jstor.org/stable/30030642 ], but sadly after 50 yrs, one is still not!
2/ir #India’s #rise is causing deep disquiet in the #Anglo#Saxon#World and among its subalterns. #Information#War will intensify in next 3 years, and won’t subside till India becomes the third largest economy in (current) USD.
As a National Security Strategist * find it a little difficult to interpret such statements by Senior officers of the US armed forces, in the broader context of the PRC threat!
2/nss Sweet spot for PLA aggression: #Elections in raucous democracies. => Lesson: Armed forces in threatened countries, should have more operational autonomy during election period.
2/res Ths who’ve never done #research in lifetime find it difficult to understand, why this is critical, for directing commissioning & using, good policy relevant research [An internal core of researchers is key to success]. For them ideas & analysis can be bought like software📦
3/res Any org that merely reacts to media headlines, & questions raised by critics, is like a consultancy organisation, not a think tank. It can never anticipate problems, nor create imaginative new solutions. Worlds top consultancy orgs. reward salesmanship not analysis… 4/res
#Emedicine, #Telemedicine can/will revolutionise (high quality) #health delivery not only in #India’s rural and remote areas, but also in rural areas of much richer countries!