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https://twitter.com/josephestiglitz/status/1784559732688064863“The promise that this liberalization would lead to faster growth from which all would benefit never materialized. Under these doctrines that have prevailed for more than four decades, growth has actually slowed in most advanced countries.” 2/12
https://twitter.com/thebfpg/status/1783432953566986703“India’s economic growth is increasingly matched by a growing ambition on the world stage. Once a leader of the Non-Aligned Movement, India now aspires to a more assertive “strategic autonomy”.” 2/14
https://twitter.com/PolandMFA/status/1783504860903587937"The first myth concerned the European Union. We joined it after years of effort and following a decision taken by the People in a two-day referendum, with endorsement and blessing from a Polish Pope." 2/22
https://twitter.com/ForeignAffairs/status/1783164012009550090"UK still administered a major Asian city, Hong Kong, as a colony. The increase in global temperatures from the long-term average was less than half what it is today. & 🇺🇸 dominance was so striking that some people saw the spread of the liberal democratic model as inevitable."
https://twitter.com/kanwalsibal/status/1783009336618315932“At the official level too, the standards of Indian democracy are questioned in direct statements or reports issued by state organisations.” 2/12
https://twitter.com/ForeignAffairs/status/1782902340535668857"(1) RUSSIA AS FRANCE
https://twitter.com/diplomat_apac/status/1782240917342065048“It seems that both at the popular level and the elite level, Indians have largely concluded that the BJP, and Modi in particular, is the best bet for leading India. Modi is seen as a strong leader who can make decisions..” 2/12
https://twitter.com/joerglau/status/1782668113160376768“Instead, Scholz took ministers in areas such as agriculture, who favor close cooperation with Beijing, along with a bevy of industrial CEOs promoting Sino-German trade and investment.” 2/12
https://twitter.com/theemissaryco/status/1773192175594897831“Whether they were converted by their university, an intelligence apparatus masquerading as an NGO, or Netflix, they genuinely believe in this set of left-wing ideals to further themselves or their people forward.” 2/21
https://twitter.com/arvindsubraman/status/1777508924943479146“The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has built roads, ports, airports, railways, power, and telecommunications, in such quantities that it has rendered the country almost unrecognizable from what it was just a few years ago.” 2/17
https://twitter.com/rohan_mukh/status/1775856275819233709"if the party can catapult an “ordinary citizen” such as Modi to global prominence, it can do the same for a country that has languished in poverty and weakness. Similarly, if Modi can make India secure, prosperous, and widely respected, he can do the same for the Indian voter."
https://twitter.com/ForeignAffairs/status/1777593191463563592"NATO is mostly an alliance of democracies. But holding that pact together during the Ukraine war has required Biden to downplay the illiberal tendencies of a Polish govt that—until its electoral defeat in October—was systematically eroding checks & balances." 2/11
https://twitter.com/adityarajkaul/status/1778074144493760602“There are a few people in India and in the West who have lost [connection with] the people of India—their thought processes, feelings and aspirations. These people also tend to live in their own echo chamber of alternate realities.” 2/17
https://twitter.com/samirsaran/status/1777434094047051989“the US-India partnership represents a strategic convergence between emerging allies driven by shared interests and values. Both countries realize that they are stronger together in deterring Beijing’s hegemonic designs, which are inimical to both US and Indian interests.” 2/12
https://twitter.com/sanchirai/status/1745741837334437958"In the former scenario, the earlier ‘India’ would have ceased to exist. The paper focuses on two clear lines of inquiry. Firstly, and perhaps counterintuitively, India’s keenness to become the legal successor to British India and accept the consequent treaty obligations." 2/21
https://twitter.com/ftindianews/status/1777184938581700935“Modi’s critics say he has mobilised the machinery of the state to stack the election in his own favour… Yet there seems to be little public backlash over these methods, raising a larger question: how did such a vibrant democracy come to accept strongman rule?” 2/12
https://twitter.com/thenatlinterest/status/1773024739579113880“only previous effort to establish democracy in 🇷🇺 was in 1917.. magnitude of the failure of these 2 brief episodes in 1917 &.. 1990s only encouraged 🇷🇺 citizens to view democracy.. more skeptically & to fall back on their hard-wired proclivity to accept centralized autocracy.”
https://twitter.com/ravireports/status/1776245473029820416“That style is confident, assertive, proudly Hindu, & unabashedly nationalist, intended to convey that 🇮🇳 is taking its rightful place among the major powers. Jaishankar has become known for publicly sparring with Western counterparts.. when 🇮🇳s positions don’t align with theirs”
https://twitter.com/EroComfort/status/1775638815702438237"perceive the international distribution of power as an unjust remnant of the colonial past. Leaders who voiced such views, such as Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, were dismissed as eccentrics, their ideas behind the times." 2/14