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#EP12 Abhijit Iyer-Mitra on the shifting sands of US-India relationship and answers your questions.
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00:00 Intro
00:41 Challenges that are in front of India in term of how to deal with US
05:23 Should India leave the englosphere and work on an economic and security group with countries like France, Japan, Vietnam, Korea?
07:22 A joint development surface to air missile (SAM) equivalent to S400 with enough technology transfer would have made a lot of sense, but why aren’t they forthcoming and instead threatening sanctions.
08:43 Current situation is a rude awakening that the incumbent US administration is not a reliable
09:04 Seeing how India is vulnerable due to Covid and the US support is minimal at best, is China likely to make a move on India's borders again?
09:39 Japan still hasn't amended Article 9. Wouldn't it affect it's defence capabilities against China,
12:19 Kerala says it has enough oxygen to supply other states. Is it true or another farce
16:31 The Scroll which stated that Arvind Kejriwal wasn't the one responsible for setting up the Oxygen plants but a central body. What do you think about this?
17:57 Given what's happened in Delhi & Mumbai with Covid, Is there any provision for Medical emergency? If yes, Should Modi do it
23:08 Abhijit u says Biden & US policy makers are compromised by China and u also says u don't believe in conspiracy theories about China infiltrating & affecting US policies. R u not contradicting yourself?
27:11 UP is much more affected than Delhi but, our CM is saying there is no shortage of beds in UP. In Kanpur one O2 cylinder is costing 1 lakh.
29:43 How long before we come up with our own enterprise cloud offering?
30:27 Is Abhijith planning to write books on Foreign policy, defense policy, Improving capacity of Indian state?
34:44 Opinion on China offering to Help India in pandemic control efforts? Are they being sincere or only trying to sell
36:23 Why are we buying oxygen from UAE and other European countries if we have enough oxygen in India
37:32 Do you think this second wave will be fatal to BJP's electoral prospects and has the fall of BJP started with this mistake of mismanaging the pandemic
38:46 He is working on a non-profiy youtube channel about historical battles in India that are not taught in history books, want to help indic narrative, would like some guidance once the videos are ready.
40:46 Watched your videos on LCA, your views on how good or bad is our carbon fibre quality compared to other countries? Should we continue with it in AMCA?
42:03 When people hate Modi then without reason they have hate RSS, pro-nationalist, right-wing etc. Why is there such patterned hate?
42:55 Abhijit do you consider yourself an occidentalist? Why?
43:37 Have you had beetroot sambhar?
44:40 Why is Abhijit Iyer Mitra so negative on India's growth?
46:47 Based on the German counsellor's comment do you see a shift in the way the Germans view India? Is this something that is permanent or temporary?
48:46 Who are calling the covid related decisions, is it the PMO, a task force, CMO, who are they?
47:07 Is Abhijit interested in taking up a post and working in Indian Govt like how Amish Tripathi now works as a director of Nehru Center in London? Why not?
51:50 Your tweet about the United States policy versus vis-a-vis India you said something to the effect that business to govt is okay, business to business is okay, govt to business is okay, govt to govt is not okay. Expand a little more on this.
54:52 Think-tanks ORF and Vivekananda Foundation, who is doing better research
57:34 Will a military administered govt work for India?
59:56 Will bringing Sputnik vaccine help or do we need to throw more resources at Covishield
1:01:23 With Saudi in our corner, would you say it's a foreign policy victory? If yes, what has worked in Saudi and UAE etc is still not working with the western world?
01:02:49 Could you suggest the top four books for each in Defence, India, Hinduism and World War II?
01:08:00 Has Modi done the right thing by not responding to Biden's statement