India refrains from taking sides in US-China spat

[CrazyZ]

India refrains from taking sides in US-China spat
Focused on eliciting global cooperation to fight Covid pandemic

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• Posted: May 08, 2020 09:01 PM (IST)
  
  
• Updated : 21 hours ago
  

US blamed Beijing for covering up the start of the Covid epidemic, while China has accused the US military of developing coronavirus. File Photo


Sandeep Dikshit

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, May 8

India has refrained from taking sides in the ongoing US-China spat over the origin of the Covid virus in order to keep the focus on controlling the epidemic.

The resolve to stay neutral came on a day the government signed a $500 million Covid project with the China-dominated Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).

While the US has blamed Beijing for covering up the start of the epidemic, China has suggested that the US military might have developed the virus last month.

India is in favour of the WHO being given more teeth but is currently in no mood to take sides.

“We want to see the mandate of WHO strengthened in order to increase its capacity to handle crisis of this nature. But on the US-China tussle, we will come to it subsequently when we have more breathing space to deal with it,” said a source.

India is depending on China controlled banks as well as those dominated by the US to provide emergency funding to improve the health infrastructure as well as provide stimulus to the poor and the small and medium enterprises.

India has already availed $ 1 billion from the Shanghai-based New Development Bank (NDB) and Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has sought a doubling of the amount.

Another reason for India’s reluctance to get caught in the US-China crossfire is that it is amalgamating funding from rival sources. In the latest case, the $ 1.5 billion project size to shore up the emergency response and health systems is being financed not just by AIIB but the World Bank as well.

This project will cover all states and UTs across India and address the needs of infected people, at risk populations, medical and emergency personnel and service providers, medical and testing facilities, and national and animal health agencies.

Besides availing $ 1 billion from the World Bank, India has also obtained a tranche of $ 1.5 billion from the Asian Development Bank.

Sources said External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar had also sought to keep the focus on eliciting global cooperation to fight the pandemic.

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/india-refrains-from-taking-sides-in-us-china-spat-82210

 

[CrazyZ]

What happened to India as a USA partner against China?

 

[Brainsucker]

What happened to India as a USA partner against China?

Live matters more.

 

[Leishangthem]

What happened to India as a USA partner against China?

India was never US's "partner",US don't see India as an ideal partner, and India realizes it.US only wants to use India to proxy war against china but India isn't willing to play along considering it's more dependent on China than the US.
In fact, India is probably one the country most dependent on China,and Indian GOV wouldn't dare lift a finger against china. India can't survive without china but due to some delusion and out of place pride, sees china as a competitor even though China is decades ahead...There is no logic in treating China(which is totally in different league) ,as a competitor when China makes a far better compadre for mutual development.

 

[Gandhi G in da house]

Indian government has not taken sides openly. But Indian public has taken sides, quite openly.

 

[SHAH BAAZ]

‘Eventually, the Moslems will become master, because they are warriors, while the Hindus are windbags.’ Churchill opined that, while Hindus were experts at building ‘castles in the air’, ‘when something must be decided on quickly, implemented, executed – here the Hindus say “pass”. Here they immediately reveal their internal flabbiness.’

 

[Aswaklanta D]

India was never US's partner,US don't see India as ideal partner and India realizes it.US only wants to use India to proxy war against china but India isn't willing to play along considering it's more dependent on China than the US.
In fact, India is probably one the country most dependent on China,and Indian GOV wouldn't dare lift a finger against china. India can't survive without china but due to some delusion and out of place pride, sees china as a competitor even though China is decades ahead...There is no logic in treating China(which is totally in different league) ,as a competitor when China makes a far better compadre for mutual development.

I read some your posts, I don't belive you from manipur.
What language you know speak?

 

[namefield_empty]

I read some your posts, I don't belive you from manipur.
What language you know speak?

Yaiye waibiyo, mahak meitei natte!

Leave aside Manipur, the false flagger hasn't ever set foot in NE even. Tries to pass off as one of us, and is more Chinese than the Chinese themselves..

 

[Aswaklanta D]

Yaiye waibiyo, mahak meitei natte!

Leave aside Manipur, the false flagger hasn't ever set foot in NE even. Tries to pass off as one of us, and is more Chinese than the Chinese themselves..

I also think he not manipuri.
If he fake then we should say to admin and delete him.

 

[namefield_empty]

I also think he not manipuri.
If he fake then we should say to admin and delete him.

Do you think they care? Few days back encountered another false flagger Arunachali who wouldn't even tell me the name of his tribe in the fear that i would catch him red handed. It's very difficult to fake our NE Indian languages.

 

[Taimoor Khan]

India is depending on China controlled banks as well as those dominated by the US to provide emergency funding to improve the health infrastructure as well as provide stimulus to the poor and the small and medium enterprises.

India has already availed $ 1 billion from the Shanghai-based New Development Bank (NDB) and Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has sought a doubling of the amount.


Chinki maal kaam naheen karta. Pharaand Du-lun Trump is my streeeteggic partner.

 

[Jackdaws]

No one is supporting Trump who wants to absolve himself of blame to win his election. Trump just torpedoed a UN Security motion by insisting that China and WHO be blamed. America is a strategic partner. That doesn't take away from the fact that Trump is an idiot. Both facts are mutually exclusive.

 

[Aswaklanta D]

Do you think they care? Few days back encountered another false flagger Arunachali who wouldn't even tell me the name of his tribe in the fear that i would catch him red handed. It's very difficult to fake our NE Indian languages.

Then tag moderaters and say them now here. Let's see.

 

[Leishangthem]

I read some your posts, I don't belive you from manipur.
What language you know speak?

Can you refute something I said as wrong or just can't take what I said because it doesn't fit your narrative driven by stupidity inducing mainland Indian media ?
I speak my native.

 

[namefield_empty]

Then tag moderaters and say them now here. Let's see.

Reported him on that thread, no action was taken. Don't have the zeal for it now. That guy mazeto didn't even display any flags on his profile.

Cogs in the wheel of disinformation, IYKWIM...