Humbled Modi Reaches Out to China After Trump Turns Hostile

[Riaz Haq]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi appears to be shedding his Hindutva arrogance. He is reaching out to China after President Donald Trump and several top US administration officials have openly and repeatedly targeted India for harsh criticism over the purchase of Russian oil. Top American officials have accused India, particularly the billionaire friends of Mr. Modi, of “profiteering” from the Russian oil trade. While welcoming India’s outreach, the Chinese have indicated they expect New Delhi to stop covert aid to militant groups attacking Chinese interests in Pakistan. Meanwhile, Chinese Ambassador Xu Feihong in New Delhi recently told his Indian audiences that “Pakistan is a victim of terrorism”. Also, the United States has recently labeled the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) and its affiliated the Majeed Brigade as “international terrorists”. Majeed Brigade claimed responsibility for hijacking of the Jaffar Express train in Balochistan and murdering 31 people in cold blood in March this year. The Chinese have reached out to the Afghan Taliban leadership to get them to stop the Tehrik Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and related terrorist groups like ISIS-K from launching cross-border attacks in Pakistan which kill Chinese and Pakistani citizens and impact Chinese projects. The US has also praised the Pakistani government as a “phenomenal partner” in combatting international terrorism. 

There is significant evidence of Indian intelligence agencies’ involvement in terrorist attacks on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects funded by the Chinese government. Indian covert operative Kulbhushan Jhadav, now in Pakistani custody, has detailed his role in carrying out such attacks. In “My Enemy’s Enemy”, Indian investigative journalist Avinash Paliwal has described at some length the connections between the Indian government agents and the Afghan and Baloch militants targeting the Pakistani state and various development projects undertaken under the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Paliwal talks of the presence of Afghan and Baloch exiles in New Delhi where the Indian intelligence services recruit "human assets" to use against Pakistan. He says he has conducted interviews about Indian support for the TTP (Pakistani Taliban) on the ground in Afghanistan “whose details can not be divulged”. 

In recent years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has also been accused of ordering targeted assassinations of dissidents in multiple countries, including Canada, the US and Pakistan. Reacting to the report of Canadian allegations against the Indian government, Pakistan Foreign Secretary Syrus Qazi said: “We are aware of the nature of our eastern neighbor, we know what they are capable of … so it is not a surprise for us. “We caught [one of their] serving naval intelligence officers on our soil. He (Kulbhushan Jadhav) is in our custody and admitted that he came here to create instability and spread evil,” he added. 

Modi has a long history of murdering minorities in his country. After the Gujarat anti-Muslim pogrom of 2002, Narendra Modi made the cover of India Today magazine with the caption "Hero of Hatred". Modi was denied a visa to visit the United States.  The US visa ban on Modi was lifted in 2014 after he became prime minister. Since then,  Narendra Modi's image has been rehabilitated by the West as the US and Western Europe seek allies in Asia to counter the rise of China.  However, Modi's actions on the ground in India confirm that he remains "Hero of Hatred" and "Divider In Chief" at his core.  A two-part BBC documentary explains this reality in significant detail. The first part focuses on the 2002 events in Gujarat when Modi as the state chief minister ordered the police to not stop the Hindu mobs murdering Muslims and burning their homes and businesses.  The second part looks at Modi government's anti-Muslim policies, including the revocation of Kashmir's autonomy (article 370) and a new citizenship law (CAA 2019) that discriminates against Muslims. It shows the violent response by security forces to peaceful protests against the new laws, and interviews the family members of people who were killed in the 2020 Delhi riots orchestrated by Modi's allies. 

Here's Indian National Security Advisor on how to use Taliban to attack Pakistan:

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Sushant Singh
@SushantSin
These guys in the Trump orbit seem to have complete disdain for Modi's India.

https://x.com/SushantSin/status/1960694262254727417

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Shashank Mattoo
@MattooShashank
Fox News Anchor: Do you worry that India will set trade in the rupee and not the dollar? (Laughs)

US Treasury Secretary: There are a lot of things I worry about. The rupee becoming a reserve currency is not one of them. The rupee is at an all time low against the US dollar

https://x.com/MattooShashank/status/1960687351425814934

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Shashank Mattoo
@MattooShashank
Trump Adviser Peter Navarro: Everyone in America loses because of India buys oil from Russia. US taxpayers have to send money for Modi’s war in Ukraine

Anchor (confused): You mean Putin’s war?

Navarro: No I mean Modi’s war!

https://x.com/MattooShashank/status/1960859288651362398

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H1-B visa system is a 'scam', will change it, says US Commerce Secretary Lutnick - The Economic Times

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Calling the H1-B visa system a "scam", US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said that he is going to change its process because it's terrible. The Donald Trump administration is planning a major overhaul of the United States’ H-1B visa and green card systems, signalling a shift towards wage-based immigration and merit-driven selection.

Lutnick on Monday said he is involved in the proposed reforms, which aim to replace the current lottery-based system with a more selective model. “We're going to change the Green Card. We give green cards - the average American makes $75,000 a year and the average green card recipient $66,000 a year,” Lutnick told Fox News, questioning, “Why are we doing that? It’s like picking the bottom core.”

The proposed changes are expected to include eliminating the H-1B lottery system and introducing a wage-based allocation, where visas are given to higher-earning applicants first. A draft rule to this effect was approved by the US office of information and regulatory affairs earlier this month.

Currently, the H-1B program, widely used by the tech industry, has an annual cap of 85,000 visas. Each spring, a random lottery decides which employers can proceed with visa petitions. In 2021, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had proposed allocating H-1B slots based on wage levels divided into four tiers.

During the first Trump administration, DHS sought to replace the random selection with a wage-priority system. The proposed rule would rank petitions based on wages offered, divided into four tiers, prioritising higher-paid jobs. This effort was part of the administration’s “Buy American, Hire American” policy to ensure H-1B visas favored highly skilled and well-compensated foreign workers.


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H-1B visa programme a scam? Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and several other Republicans believe so. Speaking to Fox News on Wednesday, DeSantis called H-1B a “total scam”, saying it enables companies to replace American workers with cheaper foreign labour, mainly from India.

DeSantis claimed companies often made American employees train H-1B workers before laying them off. “Most of them (H-1Bs) are from one country, India, there’s a cottage industry about how all those people make money off this system,” he said.

He added that artificial intelligence was already displacing young American workers and asked why the country should “be importing foreign workers when we have our own people that we need to take care of”.

Pressed on divisions in Donald Trump’s cabinet over the policy, DeSantis said: “I think you’re right to say the H-1B, it’s become a total scam. These companies game the system. Some of these companies are laying off large numbers of Americans while also hiring new H-1B workers and renewing existing H-1B visas.”