How USA can financially rip off India – cutting through the ‘spin’

The hard reality is that the government has watered down the nuclear liability law to accommodate the US business interests….

The watering down has been done in close consultation with Washington and the latter’s rhetoric in the most recent weeks shows that it is simply thrilled with what the mandarins in the PMO have been doing behind closed doors.

It is no small matter that India is generating such a fantastic volume of nuclear business for the US companies – it could be anywhere up to 100 billion dollars.

This is on top of the arms purchases.

India delivers, it’s Obama’s turn now, Rediff.com, 18 Nov 11 Timing is three-fourths in international diplomacy. The spectacular display of 3 happy coincidences on the eve of PM Manmohan Singh’s pow-vow with US President Barack Obama in Bali is near-perfect in timing:

* India successfully test-firing Agni-IV missile that has a reach over large areas of the Chinese hinterland;

* Australia’s change of heart about selling uranium to India and,

* Delhi announcing the rules for the implementation of India’s nuclear liability law. …..

The enormous US penetration of the Indian media and think tanks in the recent decades all but ensures that the opinion-making can be calibrated.

The plethora of ’studies’ that appeared in the recent period by the foot soldiers of the establishments in the US and India (advocating security pacts with US and Australia, etc. ) suggest that there has been great calibration of the public discourses. A new phase is also beginning where Delhi would welcome the powerful US think tanks to come and set up shop in India. After all, why operate through the shoddy Indian proxies and hangers-on (and fatcats and dalals) when the brilliant US minds can directly handle the job of opinion-making in India more efficiently and professionally and in real time? India deserves quality time and attention by the best and the brightest American minds.

The new rules on the nuclear liability law will hopefully bring the developing panorama into the attention span of the political parties. Which would be a good thing to happen…..

The hard reality is that the government has watered down the nuclear liability law to accommodate the US business interests. The government’s spin doctors are spreading the canard that the US may find even this watered-down version unsatisfactory. This is really an insult to common sense. The watering down has been done in close consultation with Washington and the latter’s rhetoric in the most recent weeks shows that it is simply thrilled with what the mandarins in the PMO have been doing behind closed doors.

All eyes will now be on what PM gets in return from Obama. Our ‘indecisive’ PM has ‘delivered’, finally. Washington must be heaving a sigh of relief. The ball, as they say, is now in Obama’s court. It is no small matter that India is generating such a fantastic volume of nuclear business for the US companies – it could be anywhere up to 100 billion dollars.

This is on top of the arms purchases. India is also willing to become part of the US’s ‘containment strategy’ toward China. It is literally risking tensions in the relations with China. The geopolitics of the region won’t be the same again….

http://blogs.rediff.com/mkbhadrakumar/2011/11/17/india-delivers-its-obamas-turn-now/

November 19, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, politics international, USA

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