First of all there is nothing called Hindu nationalist. India is the most diverse & secular country with all religions. In fact it is the country with the 3rd largest population of muslims in the world (after indonesia, pakisthan).India's identity does not rest on being hindu but being secular and diverse. Combining hindus and nationalism together seems like an effort to malign hindus. Seriously, why cant muslims be nationalist ?? Does that mean to say Muslims in India don't care about India or anti national?? The above piece is definitely a hit piece to malign either Hindus or India or both by implying india is a religious country (nobody gives a rats ass about religion in india, unless its western media) - so please take this with a huge grain of salt.
Secondly, alternatives are good. Isn't that a free market thing? why should twitter be the only place - social network? As a food for thought - How do you feel if we start calling GOP as Christian Nationalists ?
movers-n-packers/goods shipping company is a front end to a sophisticated intelligence gathering &e spionage program of china. Just like how HUAWEI is threat to US. Nobody is dying by banning bunch of games, chill !!
I last used Lalamove to ship some furniture home from IKEA. I'm not entirely sure what the CCP wants to do with this information, but they're welcome to have it.
One, i for one would not welcome having an ethno-centric authoritarian state spying on me. I certainly wouldn't be happy if say the Nazis Germany or the stasi were spying in india. Your response is very similar to "I've got nothing to hide" argument for government spying.
Second, just because lalamove didn't do anything ontoward for you, doesn't mean that chinese companies don't spy on anyone. Maybe you should look at the rich history of china's industrial espionage, or how US and Soviet Russia spied on each other during the cold war.
Third, this is part of a economic and trade war against china. Maybe you should read about how an authoritarian state works, and how subjugated people get treated by oppressors. Go look at tibet, taiwan, Hong Kong, uyghur, ww2 poland etc etc.
I'll add a final point. I have found most such arguments made by people who hate the current indian government, which is indeed a bad one. But people are so hell bent on opposing the government that they even speak positives of entities that are against india, like china. Food for thought for you, what would your reaction be if it was the indian government doing similar things of industrial espionage, economic war, and spying. Would you say that modi was welcome to see that you ordered furniture from ikea?
But modiji already knows that thanks to RBI and your payment gateway which are bound by law to share the information. So do many more trackers, thanks to agreeing to the ToS, who will sell that data to the highest bidder and then again and again. :)
For a start, your home address, Cc info. Your inside layout of the house - how amenable you are to communist propaganda by looking at the indoors of the house. On the other hand, If you are govt official or person working in defense or research - they could easily bug your house while you are there and get daily briefings. I am not saying lalamove does this - but it is a possibility, think about why US and UK are so hell bent on banning huewei. Every country has a right to secure its border. To be fair, china is not exactly a warm neighbor too . China attacked india in 1962 and recently occupied leh and ladakh region. Tibet has been occupied by china. Taiwan, Hongkong have serious concerns with china's influence. On the other hand, you will find tons of companies like lalamove in india .
> think about why US and UK are so hell bent on banning huewei
The UK is not hell-bent on banning Huawei. It had initially approved Huawei hardware, and after banning them, admitted that this was due to geopolitical pressure,[1] which included US threats to reduce intelligence co-operation with the UK.[2] The US president even said that he was responsible for the UK's action.[3]
It all started with great firewall of china, didn't it ? The segregation of internet for political purposes has been there for number of years. (aka. china blocks FB,Google and wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma... ). rest of the world is catching up to their playbook
Agree! In these games, you only need one player who plays foul and the rules have to be changed for everyone.
Having said that, The Great Firewall is the best thing CCP has done to protect itself, by a long shot. Had it not done so, China would be, at best, full of riots and uprisings and protests everywhere as foreign interests mobilized locals to act against the CCP using anti-CCP propaganda in their social media.
Anti-CCP propaganda like rule of law, free elections, not having a dictator run the country, right to clean air and clean water. That propaganda sounds extremely dangerous to the first-degree relatives of CCP becoming billionaires off the working masses. I live in a western city, full of 18 year old students driving Porsche's, whose parents are in the CCP. Every time I see that, I feel bad for the peasants in the countryside toiling away in the countryside.
are you sure that would happen? Make no mistake, I get that Western powers do have cultural and economic agendas (McDonald republics and such). But if you look at Japan and South Korea, they didn't really have significant protests or any "installed leaders".
The US hated Shinzo Abe for the longest damn time, didn't stop him from being re-elected multiple times.
Also, its not appropriate to call the forces still in Japan an "occupying army". There is a joint forces treaty in place, and Japan has multiple times refused to amend Article 9 of their constitution
In South Korea, they've deposed the previous President. Seems like the US is doing a bad job installing leaders there.
Yes, there are forces which are fighting to kick out the occupying forces and there are forces keeping them in check. Long gone are the days of occupying forces marching and parading. It's shadow governments and pawns now.
In my opinion it started earlier than that and began with the Five Eyes hoovering up data. This lead to the realization of 'huh, if we can do it to others, others might be able to do it to us'.
India has all the right to protect its economy and people from chinese spying and tech dependency . Is nt that what US is doing with tariffs and bringing back jobs??
"Do they really want to start a trade war with China?"
why not?? It already too late to stop china. India needs to protect its borders and economy from chinese incursions
It is, but for PRC, US is a major export partner, they can't really cut them off without themselves suffering too. So, US can afford to go on offensive there. Also, US does have technological capability to build the things they import themselves.
