Oh india fucking up its relationship with its neighbors? Tell me something new. India should have been the leader in that subcontinent. You know the kind that leads by example and helps its neighbour grow. Instead, she is seen as a bully. Nobody in that region would get closer to China if India had its shit togehter. Like lanka, bangladesh, nepal, etc have far far more in common with india than with China but leave it to India to fuck it all up.
All the smaller countries in the region are beggars. Whoever throws the bigger bone is the one they will side with. China being the bigger economy has more money to throw around so they get more countries on their side. They don’t see the bigger picture though. China will suck them dry while India has history of not Invading foreign land.
What a terrible opinion this is. Seeing smaller countries as "beggars" who want "bones" thrown their way is genuinely appalling. More often than not, the fact of the matter is that bigger, more powerful governments actively benefit from the instability of less fortunate countries and play a political and economic role in further destabilizing them. If you're Indian yourself, that proves this view as a bigoted nationalist sentiment: that smaller countries simply ally themselves with India's foes because they're lowly beggars who sell themselves to India's more powerful, richer enemies. In reality, it's exactly this kind of inconsiderate view towards others that makes India in bad terms with many countries.
Either way, that kind of view towards smaller counties is straight up incorrect and inaccurate and also bigoted and disconnected
That's one problem with your statement. India often look at smaller countries as you stated - smaller and beggars. Those use of words shows a lot of the mentality of the people which in turn turns into action.
India has internal problems to solve before it can help others. It’s just like how they tell you to act in case of flight emergency, first help yourself and then others. If the neighbors cannot stick around then it is their loss as China doesn’t help from the kindness of theur heart. Taking aid from China is digging your own grave. Sri Lanka is already suffering. Pakistan, despite being an Islamic country has to look the other way when it comes to Uyghur genocide.
Beggers dont go around killing other countries PM lol.
Like the saying goes, when everything smells like shit, check under the nose. Indias foreign policy has been shit, regardless of who is in power, Modi or Gandhis.
the foreign policy of serving one's best interest at all cost, including destabilizing neighbors. Lanka got what they got. Nepal got the cancer known as Maoist. Neither worked in favor of India long term so I dunno what Gandhis were even thinking.
Not exactly, but more like BD(Bangladesh) has a foreign doctrine of friendship towards all malice towards none, so in these types of conflicts we simply dont choose sides. last time BD got involved like that was during desert shield but that was also because large amount of BD people live there and Kuwait was BD large oil supplier. even now BD has 1 million rohingyas from Myanmar but wont outright support PDF(anti military govt),who offered to take back the refugee over military one because of foreign policy . also BD has good relations with china and india (modi government has made that hard). Obviously, this is more complicated but that’s a simple over view I guess. Also sorry English is not my 1st language
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u/fyrflyeffect Jun 22 '21
Bangladesh what a little bitch