"A columnist for the Global Times, which, in a way, is a mouthpiece for China, published an article with the headline 'What I see about Bharat narrative in India'. This article is a ringing affirmation of the changing Chinese perspective on India."
"It seems the Chinese government has come to accept that our economic and foreign policies, as well as our changing strategic interests, have helped India emerge as a key global economic player and a strategic power," Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said at a community reception at the India House in London.
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"On the one hand, India has made great achievements in economic development and social governance. Its economy has gained momentum and is on track to becoming one of the fastest-growing major economies," Zhang Jiadong, the director of the Centre for South Asian Studies at Fudan University, wrote in an article for state-controlled Chinese media outlet 'Global Times'.
"For example, when discussing the trade imbalance between China and India, Indian representatives earlier used to primarily focus on China's measures to reduce the trade imbalance. But now they are placing more emphasis on India's export potential," Zhang said. "In the political and cultural spheres, India has moved from emphasising its democratic consensus with the West to highlighting the 'Indian feature' of democratic politics. Currently, there is even more emphasis on the Indian origins of democratic politics," the article added.
In his article, Jiadong also asserted that the shift reflects India's ambition to escape its historical colonial past and act as a "world mentor", both politically and culturally.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh cited the article on the country praising India's rising global stature, said, "ab aisa nahi hai ki Bharat ko ankh dikha ke jo chahe so nikal jaye (No one can scare us and get away with it)."
"I believe that the courage shown by our jawans during the standoff with Chinese troops at Galwan helped alter Beijing's perspective on India. We are no longer a weak country in the eyes of the world. We are a rising global power."
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India, US, Russia...are not the only one :::: Democracy ... elections ... around 50 countries sweat it out in 2024 in the name of 'people's will and mandate'
There will be Rubber Stamp Exercises in some countries:
There’s little doubt about who will win Russia’s presidential election in March. President Vladimir Putin faces only token opposition in his bid for a fifth term. His main rivals are in prison, in exile or dead, and a politician calling for peace in Ukraine was disqualified.
It’s a similar story in Belarus, led by President Alexander Lukashenko. On Feb. 25, the country is expected to hold its first parliamentary election since Lukashenko’s government crushed protests against the Putin ally’s disputed 2020 reelection. Thousands of opponents are in prison or have fled the country, says a report by news agency Associated Press.
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Pakistan’s Feb 8, 2024 parliamentary election is being keenly watched and contested by well-established players. Nevertheless, the country’s powerful military remains omninent.
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan, a popular opposition figure, is imprisoned, and election officials blocked him from running. Analysts say the elections in Pakistan is likely to produce a shaky government.
Even the vote may be postponed amid "plummeting relations with Taliban-controlled neighbor Afghanistan" and deadly attacks on Pakistani security forces.
Three-time Prime Minister and veteran Nawaz Sharif is back. He is the leader of the Pakistan Muslim League and was allowed on the ballot after his corruption convictions were overturned.
The Pakistan Peoples Party led by former Foreign Minister Bulawal Bhutto Zardari is also in the running. As of now army is with Nawaz Sharif even as the latter is known for trying out friendly gestures with India. In fact, in 2014, Sharif along with other SAARC leaders had attended Prime Minister Narendra Modi's historic swearing in.
But peace with India is something the Pakistani military cannot stomach.
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LEADERS LOOK TO TIGHTEN THEIR GRIPS
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the world’s longest-serving female leader, won a fourth successive term this week in an election that opposition parties boycotted and preceded by violence.
Hasina’s Awami League party was reelected on a low turnout of 40%, and the stifling of dissent risks triggering political turmoil.
India, the world’s most populous country, is due to hold a general elections by April-May 2024 "that is likely to bring Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party a third consecutive term", says the AP report.
It also says, "To his supporters, Modi is a political outsider who has cleaned up after decades of corruption and made India an emerging global power."
VOTES WITH GLOBAL IMPACT
Taiwan’s elections for president and the 113-member legislature take place Saturday under intense pressure from China, which makes the outcome important to much of the Asia-Pacific region, as well as to the U.S.
Beijing has renewed its threat to use military force to annex the self-governing island it regards as its own territory, and described the elections as a choice between war and peace. None of the three leading presidential candidates has indicated a desire to try China’s resolve by declaring Taiwan’s independence.
That said, front-runner William Lai, who is currently Taiwan’s vice president, has promised to strengthen the island’s defense, and a victory by him could heighten cross-strait tensions. The opposition Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang, is more amenable to Beijing than Lai’s Democratic People’s Party. Taiwan’s 23 million people overwhelmingly favor maintaining the island’s de facto independence through self-rule. Domestic issues such as housing and health care therefore are likely to play a deciding role in the presidential race.
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