Nah. Tax payers have funded this trip even under difficult circumstances back home. People should have some level of loyalty to not abuse this honor and privilege 🤦♂️
I don't think Apple will pull out of China. It is a great market for Apple products.
Apple will however diversify it manufacturing significantly to other countries. We will likely reach a point in this decade when Apple will ship the same number of iPhones from India as they do from China...
Some Sri Lankan athletes were also reported to have bailed earlier
https://www.deccanherald.com/international/ten-members-of-sri-lankan-contingent-disappear-from-commonwealth-games-1133989.html
I was not aware of plans to proselytize the population. It is not possible given the region and it's history. Just thought Americans were falling over a sword with their delusional nation building exercise :laugh:
Back in May, Ukraine's Head of Military Intelligence predicted that war will turn tide in the second half of August. We will see what happens now :pop:
This is off topic, but have to say: Americans just woke up from a delusion and realized that there is no strategic gain by staying back in Afghanistan. There was a bigger fish (China) to fry. The Americans were not militarily defeated. They just reprioritized their focus because Afghanistan war...
Indians have always been paying higher price for petrol. So it was Bangladesh and Pakistan who were having subsidized fuel. Indians on the other hand had deregulated fuel in 2010 and were paying 100% tax on it until recently. Now the government has reduced tax to keep fuel price close to 100 INR...
We have to look at BD's allocation for sports budget and compare it on per capita terms with other South Asian countries. Then also look at how much BD has spent on each of its medal aspirant athletes on PPP per capita term. India has made some improvements on this front in past decade and that...
PTI's core platform seems to be anti-Americanism. Anti-Americanism in Pakistan is at least partly fanned by the intuitive understanding among the urban population that America has tilted towards India in an effort to balance China's ambitions in South Asian region. The same population is also...
The army has always held a lopsided influence in Pakistan's politics because Pakistani people have allowed it to remain so. There have been brief periods when Army's influence has seen a slide (Z.A. Bhutto's rise and now Imran). But this is temporary. Individuals from Pakistan (like yourself)...