Interesting article, the result of the the first time in 50 years that press were allowed to sit in for all session's of the Trilateral Commission's Asia group.
China's rise is evidently making East-Asian elites increasing weary of obeying U.S demands for total obedience to their directives. On the other hand, the magnitude of China's gains over recent decades has also drawn India closer into America's orbit, due to a fear of being outmatched as a power in Asia.
edit: link not working, this one should https://archive.ph/NzsZ0
Such an interesting article. India might claim “neutrality” but it’s clearly on the side of capital, and thus, against China.
A rising India will be what the US hopes to use against China.
I don't believe neoliberal capitalism is capable of this anymore. The imperial core is cannibalizing itself to squeeze a drop of extra profits. How are they gonna uplift India to stand up to China?
As mentioned, one method is shifting production.
I think we shouldn’t underestimate capital, even in is neoliberal form.
Shifting more production to India will only empower organisers in India, who already do very very well. They would need to shift labour around in the country from existing jobs into the kinds of factories that exist in China but probably at even lower wages, more dangerous conditions, and more horrific working hours.
It would be extremely good for the left in India if that were to happen. I'm really not sure it would work out well for the capitalists.
Yeah, thankfully India has a labor/communist presence that can hopefully take advantage of the situation.
Right and think about what shifting labour around actually entails. They would have to end other jobs in order to shift people into these jobs. A lot of that is probably going to come from agricultural jobs and those people are not at all going to be happy about losing those jobs and being forced into dangerous dirty conditions. A lot of Indian farmers are independent too, they would need to corporatise it and monopolise the land under large companies. There would be a lot of resistance and a lot of radicalisation, we already saw that the farmers are willing to resist with all the absolutely huge general strikes in the last couple years.
Yes, when the Modi govt tried to “modernise” agriculture by giving more control and power to the mega-corporations and taking it away from the farmers. The farmers resisted and the media portrayed them as “extremists” and “terrorists” and saying the people protesting were just the minority. But eventually the farmers succeeded and the plan failed. I haven’t followed it since to see if the govt. tried to get something similar passed again under the table. It’s, I think, the only high-profile defeat that Modi has faced.
I found this video about a recent industrial strike in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
I don't think they'd be trying to uplift India. Just treat it like a modern colony.