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[-] Custoslibera@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago

The article talks about the potential for India to slide into fascism.

It is definitely something to be concerned about but the things Modi is doing (stoking attacks on Muslims) is marginally better than what the CCP are doing (forced reeducation camps).

The west is happy to turn a blind eye to China, Modi would have to do a lot worse for any reaction from the west.

[-] lemmington_steele@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

right, except sometimes it's easier to impose conditions on certain countries than others. for example the US was able to get the previous Indian administration to sign a treaty ceding partial control of their arsenal to them, on threat of sanctions (if I recall correctly). as much as the US might want to do something like that with China, it wouldn't be anywhere near as easy to pull off.

this is just an example, I'm not attaching moral value to what occurred/occurs

[-] Custoslibera@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I don’t disagree and it’s a reasonable point that we should try to influence countries when influence works.

I suppose the downside of trying this with India though is Modi pulls closer to Putin and Xi which would be a bad outcome.

[-] DarthBueller@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I’m no china apologist, but if you know anything about how Indians riot, thousands of people can be murdered in a very short period of time. I haven’t heard anything about death squads for Uyghurs. Just saying, if I had to choose between being violently murdered by a Hindu mob and being detained by commies, I’d take the latter.

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