illusion8
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As an Australian citizen i can tell you the Howard liberal government out did the NPT way before India even thought of getting in to the NSG, The mining boom of the 2000's put an end to all trade embargoes the labor government imposed, That had nothing to do with anything India specific, Same goes to Canada.. For these nations who are the suppliers, trade out weighs any other protocol
The thing is India does'nt really need the NSG, As far as the nuclear interests were concerned.. They already have the bi lateral waiver, This was all about power projection and India's status as a growing power and acceptance, The problem was it was ill conceived and ill timed maybe bad judgement about the US support and capability maybe over confidence by the Modi government, In the end it ended up a major diplomatic disaster for India, How many attempts of sugar coating it or blaming China would'nt change that, And for a aspiring global leader this was a highly damaging to India's standing.. One reason the overreaction and bitterness to it from most quarters in India
You have a poor understanding of realpolitik, especially for someone who harps about it.
You come with a bias against India and an obvious tilt towards the commies..understandable due to your Sri Lankan origin.
The Australian deliberations took 5 years and against pretentious holier than thou legislatures who kept opposing it.
The economy was one side of angle, a few legislatures even opposed that on grounds of holiness.
But then, the Indo Pacific alliance scored out.
Lol..damaging to India, that's the worst assessment I have read. ..point scoring for th Chinese and the pakistanis doesn't really count as damaging..when we have all the support from the Americans, Russians, brits, french, Germans, Australians, Canadians..even the Italians came around...vs the chinese pakistani nexus.
And you call that damaging?.
The chinese bitterly oppose the rise of India and that has been made crystal clear.