There is a growing sense in India that its leaders should not allow American policymaking to shape its choices on vital energy supplies.
There is a growing sense in India that its leaders should not allow American policymaking to shape its choices on vital energy supplies.
They just really really don’t like the West and the voters don’t either.
They’ve gotten friendlier with the West in the past few decades. The distrust is for good reason given history of Western foreign interference (colonialism) and the US having a close relationship with Pakistan pre Bin Laden.
They are simply forced to get closer to the West due to China.
What about China is forcing them to get closer to the west?
I would have thought being the I in BRICS mean that India were closer to China (the C) than the West.
Facepalm. This place sometimes feels just like Reddit.
I’m asking a genuine question that I don’t know the answer to. Should I not be doing that on Lemmy?
BRICS is as real as pro wrestling, bitcoin, Serbian democracy, … You get the picture.
India and China clash often and hate each other’s guts.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020–2021_China–India_skirmishes
What they have in common is that they want to be superpowers but are too dependent on the West. So they are trying to lessen the Western dominance in world trade and so on.