India Would Win with Trump

The National Interest ^ | May 26, 2016 | Abhijnan Rej

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The disrupter-in-chief could tilt the global power balance away from China.

Last week an enterprising, and unknown, far-right outfit in New Delhi performed a traditional Hindu puja, literally praying for a Donald Trump presidency. The Washington Post took this to mean that Trump has fans in India despite his tasteless rants about outsourcing. Britain’s Guardian quoted the fringe leader behind the religious ceremony describing Trump as “our hero.” The Hindu right’s Islamophobia is one that The Donald surely shares. They too, like Trump, are keen on restoring some putative long-lost national glory.

But a far more sophisticated argument, beyond the trope of Islamic terrorism, can be made about the desirability of a Trump presidency for India. Simply put, the accession of Donald Trump to the White House offers India greater strategic space. It reduces the chances of India becoming collateral damage in American interventionism. A retrenched America will also provide a much-needed impetus to New Delhi’s notoriously status-quoist foreign-policy establishment to proactively shape the region through assertive statecraft. As disruptor-in-chief, Trump may, in fact, inadvertently herald the era of India as a great power....

[Lurkinanloomin]

The Hindu right’s Islamophobia
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When the muslims invaded India centuries ago, they slaughtered millions.
The slaughter has continued to the present day.
I would say there is nothing irrational about disliking being killed.

[The Antiyuppie]

I personally think that the India outsourcing is a temporary phenomenon. They are progressing to the point where they will consume all of the highly skilled people that they can produce. Given the quality of whatever leftovers show up here, this may already be happening, but US business management hasn’t figured this out yet.