Prime Minister Narendra Modi has had a fairly difficult lap lately. Of course, if we were to go only by the way in which a large part of the traditional Indian media (pejoratively called “GODI media” by many non -BJP supporters in India) still cannot hurt.
However, the situation for him on social networks, in particular, where the army of Troll BJP used to swing until there is no time not so long ago, seems to have changed considerably.
Several things have contributed to this, and all of this gave birth to very popular memes. The first relates to Operation Sindoor and how Indians have mainly run in the United States and asked him to ask Pakistan a ceasefire. The United States forced and President Trump skillfully played the commercial transaction card and had both parties arrested.
However, shortly after relations between India and the United States, especially between Modi and Trump, embittered, the first refusing to publicly recognize any American role in the ceasefire.
In the weeks that followed, Trump told the file that it was he who had arrested the war, which he repeated could have become nuclear – a war in which between five and seven jets were killed (he used the figure of five, six and more recently seven) after having persuaded the two countries to end and in return, the United States would offer them a commercial agreement.
Pakistan has skillfully played its cards, its army chief being even invited to an individual lunch by the most powerful man in the world, to obtain a relatively low rate of 19% – compared to India at 50%. The Asian Development Bank (BAD) also followed by approving investment in Pakistan, and in particular, funding of $ 410 million for the Reko Diq project.
The AfDB said that it was the first financing of the genre as part of the approach of the new value chains of critical minerals in manufacturing and marked the first financing by the bank of a mining project for decades.
And more potential awards have followed for Pakistan, the United States taking up fishing imports after a ban for several years.
Rocky Ride, so to speak, is of course not entirely linked to the improvement of America’s links with Pakistan. This has a lot to do with the own defects of India, in particular the insecurity and paranoid personality of Modi. According to a German publication, he did not take at least four telephone calls from the American president, and although a large part of the consumer media of India takes him as a sign of Modi resulting from a tyrant, the fact is that Modi does not want to be confronted with the truth.
After all, he cannot admit to his Hindutva right followers that it was India that asked for a cease-fire with Pakistan-it would be a major non-no and could cost him the right vote.
There is also the problem of prices, but it results mainly from Modi’s mismanagement towards Operation Sindoor Fiasco and his refusal to recognize the role played by the United States and in particular President Trump. This was still exacerbated by its oil imports from Russia, which is then refined by companies belonging to Modi and sold friends for considerable profit.
The consequence of this chain of events and the rapid deterioration of links between India and the United States have experienced changes with the presidents of Russia and China at the top of the OCS last week. While the Godi media have done a large part of his photo sessions holding the hands of the presidents Putin and XI, the Indian Prime Minister has been seriously ridiculed and mocked for the moment to express his solidarity with a country which defeated him at least twice at war recently.
One is, of course, speaking of China, where in Galwan in 2020-2021, his soldiers inflicted an embarrassing loss on the Indian army. And the other is the conflict with Pakistan in May this year, where the missiles and fighter planes provided in Pakistan by China were behind the firing of the Indian Air Force (IAF), including three gusts.
One can and should ask how Modi can now justify the bodily in China. And the answer to this is that it is an exercise in facial economy for him because the only reason for him to act as he did during the Summit of the OCS was that the links of India and the United States are now at a terrible low and seem probably unhealthy, at least for the rest of President Trump’s second term.
The photo sessions of the SCO Summit are only that – the optics – and they do not define a bilateral relationship. And in the past not too far away, India has attempted to reconcile in the United States while simultaneously leading alliances like the BRICS, which the United States considers to work against its interests.
This duplicity has now been called, and it will not be considered duplicity only by America, but also by China. Pakistan’s own relationship with China is very strong and as the May conflict has shown, it is at a militarily level without other example elsewhere in the world. And it is unlikely that there is space for India in this.
India clearly looks at a commercial relationship with China, which means that it is not fighting a war with it. It is a positive development because by extension, it should also look for the same type of relationship with Pakistan. It would be a potentially win-win situation for the two countries. But it will take more than someone like Modi to do it.
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The writer is a journalist based in Karachi. He publishes @omar_quraishi and can be reached: [email protected]
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