This is what happens when you try to hide information. If the exact numbers of the dead, injured, and captured had been disclosed right from the beginning, that would have really helped with international pressure on China.
📍NEW—We now know why US cannot share its
#COVID19
vaccines with the world—Trump WH had forced legal contracts that blocks US doses by Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, J&J from being donated. Hence 🇨🇦&🇲🇽 only got “loans”, despite >45 mil dose US surplus. 🧵
As I tweet, an oxygen tanker is outside the gate of Air Liquide Panipat plant at IOCL and he is not being allowed inside
Haryana police are stopping it & not letting the oxygen out of Haryana. Need urgent intervention!!
@PMOIndia
@rajnathsingh
@PiyushGoyal
@cmohry
@MoHFW_INDIA
I got longer version of this video, this happened in Haldwani, Uttarakhand.
These people asked a Muslim vendor to shut down his shop, they are checking people's ID card.
Cc
@MygovU
@tsrawatbjp
@uttarakhandcops
Part 1
Terrible shame that the Indian state could not let a daughter see her father one last time. These things are not easily forgotten, and I hope people will be conscious of how unnecessary this was, and that they should do better.
Woohoo! Nb Subedar Sriram Balaji of the Indian Army
@adgpi
has qualified for the Wimbledon Main Draw today. First fauji, first services player ever to reach here! Wimbledon! Damn!
NITI Aayog member V K Saraswat: What difference does it make if there’s no internet in Kashmir? What do you watch on internet there? What e-tailing is happening there? Besides watching dirty films, you do nothing there. 2/2
And frankly, the Government of India and the Indian Army missed a massive opportunity to get the world on its side over the last couple of days, by trying to hide everything.
USG statement here says India has reduced it's reliance on Russian military equipment since 2011 by 53 percent. Unhappy about lack of elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
NOW: Chaired by
@ChrisMurphyCT
,
#SFRC
Sbcmte on Near East, South East, Central Asia & Counterterrorism is convening a hearing on U.S. Policy Towards India.
Stream testimony from
@StateDept
Bureau of South & Central Asian Affairs Asst. Sec. Hon. Donald Lu:
Cruz: India's critical for countering China. Efforts institutionalized through Quad.But focus shifted to climate change and other issues away from China. Why is Biden admn shifted focus of Quad from countering communist China to things like climate change?
Complete list:
1. Vampire
2. Harlow PC-5
3. Percival Prentice
4. MiG-21 — FL, M, Bis and Bison upgrades variants
5. Folland Gnat
6. HAL Ajeet
7. MiG-27 — M variant
8. SEPECAT Jaguar— IS, IB and IM variants
9. BAE Hawk — scheduled production run of 42 aircraft
10. Sukhoi Su-30
People like
@rwac48
@ajaishukla
and
@reportersujan
have done more to get world opinion to understand the Indian position with their articles and photos - even the one of the nails welded to the rods posted by Shukla on Thursday.
There is this mistaken view that this is a binary and the only options are either surrender or all out war with China. This is disingenuous. No one wanted a declaration of war. But no one was expecting India to cede its claims, either.
I see some angry that the PM seems to have given up on territory along the LAC India claims, and China holds. It’s not clear to me, though, whether those angered (a) want war to enforce that claim or (b) think it's best to perpetuate our national self-deceit for some more time
For all their vaunted and publicised study of mass communication, psy-ops and media management, they have come across as amateurs, unable to devise military or communication strategy. Cue, the next crisis. Repeat.
@BeijingPalmer
I also remember reading somewhere that there is no other planet that we’ve discovered so far that has these proportions working out so perfectly — size of planet, moon & sun + distance between them — there might also be implications for the possibility of life because of this.
Contrary to speculation on social media, the Indian Army has denied it holds any Chinese PLA prisoners from the incidents of Saturday and Monday, south of Pangong Tso.
Going forward, the army needs to ask itself if it wants to win, or merely offer lip service whilst covering ass or getting emotional. And then, make its decisions accordingly. Also, be clear about who’s running the army.
What is happening is not okay. The way it’s happening is not okay. People have every right to peacefully voice their opinion. This violence and disruption is both saddening and concerning as a fellow citizen. In no circumstance, must our faith in democracy be shaken. 🇮🇳
Sir, the question of vaccine hesitancy only comes into play when the supply of vaccines excedes demand. Your government did not order enough vaccines for everyone, and placed barriers to the vaccine with internet access and OTP nonsense. Please think about this and reconsider.
Commander Nishant Singh of the Indian Navy has been awarded the Nao Sena Medal for Gallantry, posthumously, for saving the life of his trainee pilot in a MiG-29 crash on Nov 26, 2020.
Angela Merkel's rigor in collating information, her honesty in stating what is not yet known, and her composure are paying off.
@sasmiller
looks at Germany's scientist in chief:
I first came to the
#DubaiAirshow
in 2011. I don’t remember seeing Indian flight displays here any of the times I’ve visited since then. And now
@IAF_MCC
has 17 aircraft here, 14 of which are displaying in flight. And visitors to the show have remarked about this to me. 😊
Sonia Gandhi & Manmohan Singh recieved her body after it was sneaked back into Delhi from Singapore for a hasty cremation organised early on Dec 30 at a Dwarka cremation ground after. They behaved like shameless thieves in the night. The parents were given no say in the matter.
Indian Army: *Official Statement*
During the de-escalation process underway in the Galwan Valley, a violent face-off took place yesterday night with casualties. The loss of lives on the Indian side includes an officer and two soldiers.
So, BAE Systems has stopped production of the M777 155 mm light howitzer. In fact, the only place they’re still being assembled is a little south east of Delhi, in collaboration with Indian partner, Mahindra. So…, you know…
Veteran A attacks Veteran B for views and language on social media to the point of B losing job. Ironically, A’s attack is intended to score points for a potential job application on social media.
#WATCH
| ‘Varuna’ country’s first human-carrying drone, developed by the Indian startup Sagar Defence Engineering, will soon be inducted into Indian Navy
Donald Lu: I think we'll see the results in March later this month. PM Modi and his party appear to me as outside observer to retain a lot of support in the country.
Per information gathered, appears the Super Hornet has jumped a ski jump.
@USNavy
,
@BoeingDefense
are running F/A-18 Super Hornet tests from a ski jump at Naval Air Station Patuxent River to demonstrate it is STOBAR compliant for the Indian Navy...
Great news!
@IAF_MCC
Flt Lt Bhawana Kanth adds another feather to her cap by completing Day operational syllabus on MiG-21 Bison aircraft. She is the 1st women fighter pilot to be qualified to undertake missions by day on a fighter aircraft.
58 men on one motorcycle for 1.5 km. That's a world record created today by the
@adgpi
Indian Army Service Corps Tornadoes Team today at Yelahanka, Bangalore.
At this time, the defence ministry and army should remember the failure of perception management initiative after the Balakote air strikes and be mindful of the need to be careful with messaging.
This kind of mass communication and persuasion is more than anything that the army or its proxies have been able to accomplish, through this recent crisis.
Donald Lu: India is asserting leadership in Indian ocean and high seas. It wants more technology to do the job better to track Chinese submarines. India wants to do so.
This practice has to stop. Why shud passengers be kept as hostage in a plane for four hours just because airline does not want to go back in its flying sequence. Airports should have a wait area. LCCs dont even have an IFE
@sureshpprabhu
@moca_goi
@airasia
#india
#avgeek
Quick take from a buddy who's job it is to watch the region closely: The time for posturing and messaging is gone. 'I think you have to go kinetic or go home.'
Donald Lu: India wants to continue to leave the possibility for a diplomatic solution to this. India also has 18000 students in Ukraine whom they're concerned about.