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India, facing China concerns, abstained from UN resolution to appease Russia: foreign policy expert
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India abstained from voting on a United Nations Safety Council decision demanding Russia withdraw its troops from Ukraine largely due to its concern over China, a international coverage scholar advised Fox Information.
“India’s main concern is about its rivalry with China,” a fellow with the Council on Overseas Relations, Zongyuan Zoe Liu, stated. “India has a rising concern about China’s rising affect, not simply within the Indo-Pacific area, but in addition within the Center East, which is one other space the place it has important curiosity.”
India, whereas persevering with its nonalignment coverage, is straddling efforts to appease Russia to forestall it from shifting nearer to China, whereas concurrently making an attempt to maintain the U.S. as an ally for safety within the area, in accordance with Liu.
“In some ways, India’s abstain from the U.N. safety vote doesn’t essentially converse a lot about India’s concern over Russia and Russia’s army motion in opposition to Ukraine, however actually speaks to India’s personal strategic calculation,” Liu advised Fox Information.
Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, proper, and Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, pose for images as Putin arrives at Hyderabad Home in New Delhi, India, on Monday, Dec. 6, 2021.
(T. Narayan/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos)
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“India is sticking with nonalignment coverage in some ways,” she continued. “It is irritating from our perspective.”
India has relied on each the U.S. and Russia, in accordance with Liu. Russia has supplied 60% of India’s army gear and has traditionally been an ally, whereas the U.S. has been a accomplice in each commerce and safety within the Indo-Pacific area.
China has been constructing troops on the border with India for years, and the 2 nations have clashed on a number of events. 4 Chinese language troopers and 20 Indians died in a 2020 skirmish.
Officers and troopers conduct coaching in Southwest Guizhou, Guizhou Province, China, Feb. 22, 2022. (Costfoto/Future Publishing by way of Getty Photos)
Because of this, India is aiming to make sure that Russia will proceed promoting it arms whereas sustaining its relationship with the U.S. to make sure its presence within the area.
“India most likely doesn’t wish to do issues that might drive Russia to additional assist China and which could danger India’s strategic safety within the area,” Liu stated. “By way of India’s brazenly supporting Russia or serving to Russia keep away from the sanctions, I personally do not essentially assume that that’s going to be in India’s curiosity.”
The U.S. and different Western nations imposed heavy sanctions in opposition to Russia after it invaded Ukraine in late February. International locations that assist Moscow keep away from the penalties may face secondary sanctions – a punishment India desires to keep away from, in accordance with Liu.
Border Safety Drive (BSF) personnel show weapons throughout an exhibition as part of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav programme, on March 10, 2022 in Srinagar, India. (Waseem Andrabi/Hindustan Occasions by way of Getty Photos)
In the meantime, from an financial standpoint, India desires to develop past Western markets and reliance on the greenback – a place each Russia and China maintain, as properly.
“On condition that our policymakers right here in america have a tendency to make use of sanctions in opposition to international actors or international entities, the weaponization of the U.S. greenback and the dollar-based world monetary system are inclined to make folks take into consideration ‘properly, we most likely wish to hedge in opposition to the greenback hegemon,’” Liu advised Fox Information.
India “for an extended time frame” has expressed “dissatisfaction in the direction of the Western-led or American-led world system,” Liu added. She stated India and Russia have a historical past of settling commerce via exchanges with their very own currencies.
Isabelle McDonnell contributed to this report.
Justices at the United States Supreme Court have signalled scepticism towards a challenge brought by the video-sharing platform TikTok, as it seeks to overturn a law that would force the app’s sale or ban it by January 19.
Friday’s hearing is the latest in a legal saga that has pitted the US government against ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, in a battle over free speech and national security concerns.
The law in question was signed in April, declaring that ByteDance would face a deadline to sell its US shares or face a ban.
The bill had strong bipartisan support, with lawmakers citing fears that the Chinese-based ByteDance could collect user data and deliver it to the Chinese government. Outgoing US President Joe Biden ultimately signed it into law.
But ByteDance and TikTok users have challenged the law’s constitutionality, arguing that banning the app would limit their free speech rights.
During Friday’s oral arguments, the Supreme Court seemed swayed by the government’s position that the app enables China’s government to spy on Americans and carry out covert influence operations.
Conservative Justice Samuel Alito also floated the possibility of issuing what is called an administrative stay that would put the law on hold temporarily while the court decides how to proceed.
The Supreme Court’s consideration of the case comes at a time of continued trade tensions between the US and China, the world’s two biggest economies.
President-elect Donald Trump, who is due to begin his second term a day after the ban kicks in, had promised to “save” the platform during his presidential campaign.
That marks a reversal from his first term in office, when he unsuccessfully tried to ban TikTok.
In December, Trump called on the Supreme Court to put the law’s implementation on hold to give his administration “the opportunity to pursue a political resolution of the questions at issue in the case”.
Noel Francisco, a lawyer for TikTok and ByteDance, emphasised to the court that the law risked shuttering one of the most popular platforms in the US.
“This act should not stand,” Francisco said. He dismissed the fear “that Americans, even if fully informed, could be persuaded by Chinese misinformation” as a “decision that the First Amendment leaves to the people”.
Francisco asked the justices to, at minimum, put a temporary hold on the law, “which will allow you to carefully consider this momentous issue and, for the reasons explained by the president-elect, potentially moot the case”.
‘Weaponise TikTok’ to harm US
TikTok has about 170 million American users, about half the US population.
Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, arguing for the Biden administration, said that Chinese control of TikTok poses a grave threat to US national security.
The immense amount of data the app could collect on users and their contacts could give China a powerful tool for harassment, recruitment and espionage, she explained.
China could then “could weaponise TikTok at any time to harm the United States”.
Prelogar added that the First Amendment does not bar Congress from taking steps to protect Americans and their data.
Several justices seemed receptive to those arguments during Friday’s hearing. Conservative Chief Justice John Roberts pressed TikTok’s lawyers on the company’s Chinese ownership.
“Are we supposed to ignore the fact that the ultimate parent is, in fact, subject to doing intelligence work for the Chinese government?” Roberts asked.
“It seems to me that you’re ignoring the major concern here of Congress — which was Chinese manipulation of the content and acquisition and harvesting of the content.”
“Congress doesn’t care about what’s on TikTok,” Roberts added, appearing to brush aside free speech arguments.
Left-leaning Justice Elena Kagan also suggested that April’s TikTok law “is only targeted at this foreign corporation, which doesn’t have First Amendment rights”.
TikTok, ByteDance and app users had appealed a lower court’s ruling that upheld the law and rejected their argument that it violates the US Constitution’s free speech protections under the First Amendment.
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