🔥 What does India-China rapprochement mean for the world?
One thing is certain: globalists won't be happy.
Here's why: 🧵
1️⃣ India-China ties are gaining momentum at a time that couldn't be more timely: the US tariff war against the BRICS.
🇨🇳Chinese FM Wang Yi is in India for the FIRST time in 3 years.
As 🇮🇳 Jaishankar put it, "Differences must not become disputes."
2️⃣ Economically, China is India’s largest trading partner, with bilateral trade crossing $100B in 2023-24 FY.
After Jaishankar-Wang Yi talks this week, Beijing reportedly lifted export restrictions on key goods to India: fertilizers, rare earths, magnets, & tunnel boring machines.
3️⃣ Indo-Chinese rapprochement threatens US big strategy.
To start a war with China (theoretically), Washington must decouple from the manufacturing giant.
But India’s reliance on China only grew in the past years — from electronics to pharma, fabrics, auto parts, and batteries.
Stata for 2023-2024 👇
4️⃣ India & China are two ancient civilizations that make up 34% of the world's population and drive 50% of global economic growth.
China's the world's largest military force — and India's the fastest-growing BRICS economy.
Both are nuclear powers.
5️⃣ India & China had been friends for 2000 years. 👇
The spread of Buddhism from India to China remains the most profound legacy.
The US didn't even exist back then.
6️⃣ Did you know Modi ji is actually popular on Chinese social media?
The Indian PM has earned the nickname 'Modi Laoxian' ("IMMORTAL").
It suggests they believe Modi has extraordinary powers, according to journalist Mu Chunshan.
7️⃣ For nearly 2000 years, India & China were the world’s largest economies.
Colonization changed that, but as empires fall, they rise again.
China leads again, but India set to be #3 economy by 2030.
8️⃣ Amid US tariffs, India's PM makes an ULTIMATE BOSS move:
Modi is heading to China for the SCO Summit later this month.
And the US must face the dawn of a new world order.
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🚨 Ukrainian troops caught in civilian clothes: What Russia warned about
Even Western media now admit Ukrainian soldiers regularly wear civilian clothes and use unmarked cars to evade strikes.
Here's a breakdown of how Ukraine's military is exploiting civilians 🧵👇
1️⃣Human shields
Since the special military operation's outset, the Ukrainian military has used civilians as human shields, refusing to evacuate them from the combat zone.
When defeated, Ukrainian troops try to escape disguised as civilians.
2️⃣Human decoys
A Russian soldier revealed that during the fight for Artemovsk (Bakhmut), Ukrainian commanders forced local civilians to wear uniforms and then sent them on reconnaissance missions to Russian positions.
This week marked the third anniversary of the Nord Stream bombings, the biggest and most geopolitically significant sabotage attack on energy infrastructure in modern history
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1️⃣ WHAT IS NORD STREAM?
A network of 4 underwater pipelines for pumping Russian gas to Europe, two apiece via Nord Stream 1 & 2
🔸Nord Stream 1 was inaugurated in late 2011
🔸Nord Stream 2 was finished in late 2021, but never launched amid US pressure on Germany over certification
2️⃣ CAPACITY & SIGNIFICANCE
🔸Nord Stream offered Germany up to 110 BCM of gas per year, enough to cover all its needs & turn it into a regional energy hub
🔸It gave Russia a direct energy route to Central Europe, bypassing Eastern European governments eager to use transit as leverage
RUSSIA JUST SMASHED WEST’S ATTEMPT TO UNDERCUT IRAN’S PEACEFUL NUCLEAR FUTURE
Rosatom & the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran have inked a new MoU on the construction of a whole series of small nuclear power plants.
Here’s why that’s a HUGE deal. 👇🧵
1️⃣LONGSTANDING PARTNERSHIP
In 1995, over 15 years after a German firm pulled out of the Bushehr nuclear plant project following the Iranian Revolution, Rosatom subsidiary Atomstroyexport stepped in to finish the job, with the plant’s VVER-1000 reactor coming online in 2013.
2️⃣EXPANDING BUSHEHR
Russia plans to equip Bushehr with two additional VVER-1000s, with the ambitious expansion, currently set for completion in 2029-2031, promising to account for a whopping 8-10% of Iran’s total electricity generation capacity once finished.
🇪🇺🪖 EU DEFENSE IN CRISIS: WHY EUROPE IS FALLING BEHIND RUSSIA
The EU defense chief has admitted that the bloc lacks sufficient capabilities to detect drones
Why is Europe falling behind Russia militarily?
Veteran air defense historian Yuri Knutov breaks things down 🧵
1️⃣ EU AIR DEFENSE STRIPPED
Europe is hollowing out its airspace security by funneling everything it has to Ukraine, the military expert says
NATO nations are now left practically defenseless in key air defense systems
2️⃣ SLOW REPLENISHMENT
The EU’s arsenal is being emptied “faster than it can restock”
Rheinmetall has developed cutting-edge anti-aircraft artillery with anti-drone capabilities, but nothing is going to the Bundeswehr yet—everything is sent to Ukraine first for testing