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Jun 20 • 12 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Modi tried to sideline China with tech bans, border posturing, and U.S. alliances. Beijing's response? Arm Pakistan with stealth jets India can't track. The J-35 sale isn’t an arms deal. It’s a warning shot. Here's what's really going on 👇

hindustantimes.com/india-news/iaf…
China’s stealth jet sale to Pakistan isn’t about Pakistan. It’s about Modi.

Beijing is done with New Delhi’s hedging. The J-35 deal is punishment, not partnership. A thread 🧵

(1/11)
China is supplying Pakistan with up to 40 J-35 stealth jets. Fifth-generation fighters. The first time China is exporting real stealth. This isn't arms sales. It's targeted escalation. (2/11)
Modi banned Chinese tech, pulled out of BRI, aligned with the Quad, and militarized the border. Beijing isn’t hoping for reset anymore. It’s playing hardball. (3/11)
You box us out of South Asia, we upgrade your worst enemy. You host US surveillance aircraft, we give Pakistan stealth capability. You push back on BRI, we open up your western front. (4/11)
The IAF is still flying Su-30MKIs and Rafales. Neither is stealth. Pakistan gets the edge in radar evasion, especially in BVR combat. A first in South Asia. (5/11)
It’s not just jets. China is including KJ-500 AWACS and HQ-19 air defense systems. This is a strategic kit drop. A full-spectrum combat suite, not a boutique purchase. (6/11)
The message is simple. You chose the Americans. Fine. Then we’ll make Pakistan unignorable again. We’ll pin you in South Asia while you play Indo-Pacific chess. (7/11)
China no longer sees India as a neutral power. It sees it as a U.S. proxy. This deal ends any fantasy of strategic autonomy being respected in Beijing. (8/11)
Modi’s Western tilt wins applause in D.C. But the cost is real. China now treats India like a containment target, not a power to be courted. (9/11)
Veteran IAF officers know the stakes. This isn’t about parity with Pakistan. It’s about opening a two-front dilemma backed by China’s industrial muscle. (10/11)
Xi isn’t improvising. This is long-term doctrine: box in India, bleed its focus, stretch its resources. Modi placed a bet. China just raised the stakes. (11/11)

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Jun 21
Part 5: India's Rise Was Never Inevitable
Global South romanticism masks a harsher reality. India’s rise isn’t the triumph of democracy. It’s the survival of colonial systems under new management.

(1/11)

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/thiruvana…
The British didn’t just colonize India. They reprogrammed it. They trained a class of elites to speak English, quote Locke, and manage empire. After 1947, that class stayed in charge. Only the flag changed.

(2/11)
The “civil services” were once tools of imperial control. Post-independence, they weren’t dismantled. They were inherited. Today’s IAS officers aren’t revolutionaries. They’re descendants—intellectually and bureaucratically—of colonial administrators.

(3/11)
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Jun 21
They told you the British left in 1947. What they didn’t tell you is their Indian replacements took over the system and never gave it back.

timeslife.com/life-hacks/col…
India’s post-colonial tragedy isn’t just economic. The colonial elite never left. They traded red coats for khadi and learned to campaign in Hindi. (1/12)
The British Raj ruled through a narrow class of anglicized Indian intermediaries. They spoke the Queen’s English and knew their place. In 1947, they weren’t removed. They were promoted. (2/12)
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Jun 21
Modern India wasn’t born. It was manufactured.
Not by civilizational continuity, but by imperial convenience.

🔗 The Idea of India Was Born in the British Library
A thread on how "India" was invented, not inherited. (1/9)

m.thewire.in/article/histor…
Before the British, there was no single polity called "India."
There were Marathas, Mughals, Rajputs, Sikhs, and dozens of kingdoms.
No central flag. No fixed borders. No shared state. (2/9)
The British didn’t unify India. They compressed it.
A civilizational mosaic was reduced to an administrative grid.
Uniformity replaced autonomy. (3/9)
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Jun 21
Just a century ago, most of Asia was still colonized. The colonial powers thought they'd rule forever. They were wrong. This is a thread about how empires fall, always late, always bloody, always inevitable. 🧵

Just a century ago, most of Asia was still colonized. The colonial powers thought they'd rule forever. They were wrong. This is a thread about how empires fall, always late, always bloody, always inevitable. 🧵

(1/13)
The British controlled India, Burma, Malaya, Singapore, and Ceylon. The French had Indochina. The Dutch ruled Indonesia. Portugal clung to East Timor and Goa. The US took the Philippines from Spain. Nearly the entire Asian continent was carved up.

(2/13)
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Jun 20
China makes the world’s goods. The US sells the world a dream. But one of them is being accused of “overcapacity.” Let’s look at the numbers. A thread that dismantles the lie. 🧵
China has 17% of the world’s population. It produces 13% of global goods exports. In other words, its output is proportional to its size. (1/10)
The US has just 4% of the world’s population. Yet it accounts for 14% of global service exports. Three times its weight. (2/10)
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Jun 20
China makes the world’s goods. The US sells the world a dream. But one of them is being accused of “overcapacity.” Let’s look at the numbers. A thread that dismantles the lie. 🧵

China has 17% of the world’s population. It produces 13% of global goods exports. In other words, its output is proportional to its size. (1/10)
The US has just 4% of the world’s population. Yet it accounts for 14% of global service exports. Three times its weight. (2/10)
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