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Sadanand Dhume
@dhume
AEI Fellow, WSJ Columnist, FP Twitterati 100. Author of My Friend the Fanatic. I share news and opinion from South Asia and the world. (On a break.)
Mar 10, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Malaysia is not just a racist country, but an unapologetically racist country. Mahathir lectures ethnic Chinese and Indians for not integrating with Malay society, but he himself admits that learning Malay would not be enough. They would also need to embrace Islam to qualify. Malaysia follows a kind of religious apartheid. The child of a wealthy recent immigrant from Pakistan qualifies for government benefits by being defined as Malay. The child of a poor (non-Muslim) ethnic Chinese or Indian won’t qualify no matter how long they’ve lived in Malaysia.
Jan 6, 2023 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Contrary to all the hype, India’s market for consumer goods remains very small. The Chinese buy about 8X more iPhones and nearly 100X more BMWs than Indians. Starbucks has 20X as many outlets in China as in India. [My take] v @WSJopinion
wsj.com/articles/india… This column has set off a mini firestorm here, so let me quickly respond to some of the objections. First, people point out that obviously China is a larger market than India. After all, it’s a larger economy. Chinese GDP in 2021: $17.73T. Indian GDP: $3.18T. 1/n
Nov 13, 2022 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
My latest WSJ column has set off a firestorm in Pakistan. It also gives us a glimpse of how misinformation/disinformation works. TLDR: Pakistani media has used my piece to attack Imran Khan while ignoring or misrepresenting my criticism of the army. 1/n
wsj.com/articles/imran… Samaa TV accurately reports on the headline of my piece, but makes it sound like a paean to the Pakistani army. No mention of my pointed criticism of the army’s record suppressing democracy at home and fomenting terrorism abroad. 2/n
Sep 26, 2022 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
These two charts from a fine book chapter by @ProfVarshney on the state of democracy in India help explain an apparent paradox: Most serious experts agree that Indian democracy is in trouble. But their arguments struggle to gain traction with the Indian public. 1/n Some of this gap between political scientists and the public may be attributed to partisanship—BJP supporters can hardly be expected to agree that Modi has weakened Indian democracy—but there’s also an element of mutual incomprehension. They’re talking about different things. 2/n
Sep 25, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Recently I was on an Indian TV debate where a fellow panelist made the same argument: that the Iranian fight for the right not to wear the hijab and the fight in India for the right to wear it (in schools) is the same. Is this true? 1/n At one level it makes sense. Liberalism is based on a respect for individual rights, and the battle in both countries can be framed in terms of choice. Let women wear whatever they want: burqa or bikini, it’s not our business. 2/n