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India in post 2014 Afghanistan: the need to revisit 'patterns of engagement' : Comments
By Shanthie D'Souza, published 3/4/2014In New Delhi there are concerns about an unstable Afghanistan yet again turning into a springboard of destabilisation and terrorism, with direct impact on India's security.
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I hope that anyone reading this article will begin to realize the real threat to the world's stability and to human rights advancements which is represented by how nations such as India and China are beginning to participate in world affairs in an increasingly aggressive and direct way, something which until now has been exclusively been the domain of the West.
No doubt right now the author of this article, all of India and China and many others are wondering what type of self-important attitude I have to believe that world interference is fine for the West but a really bad thing for anyone else.
I understand the frustration.
However consider the differences:
West –
Even though the West still has lots of serious issues of class prejudice and other institutional biases (I am first to point this out usually), in this case we are speaking in relative terms. In this sense the west have minimum standards so that even the poorest person can theoretically educate themselves and go to university to become a professional person. Also a citizen can openly mock the leadership without being arrested etc.
India, China –
have NO institutional nor even cultural regard for poor and underprivileged (India much worse than China) such that top 50% people live with Western middle class wealth standards while the other 50% barely have an existence, no basic medical, education, protection for their rights etc. This is why they can have the world’s cheapest workers and factories.
Do I really have to spell out the details of what the results would be if nations like India & China began military interventions in nations around the world? What do u think the key differences would be when compared to the military intervention campaigns of the West?