Recently, an incident happened in our neighbor India, located in the southwest, which I think is very interesting and should attract our attention enough to share it with you.
What's going on? In fact, big is not big, small is not small.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently launched a diplomatic campaign to demand that Britain return the Bright Mountain diamonds and thousands of artifacts looted during colonial rule.
Bright Mountain Diamond
What kind of diamond is the "Mountain of Light" diamond?
In fact, this diamond is native to India, weighing 105 carats, once the largest diamond in the world, but it was transferred from the Indian rulers to the East India Company during the colonial period, and finally presented to Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
The British saw this as India's "reckoning" of Britain's colonial past.
Many people look at it and say, what a thing!
In fact, this matter is not simple at all, and I even think that it is a landmark event in the rise of India.
I've always had the idea of looking at the problem to see what's behind it.
India's request for something from Britain contains three core messages. The first point is why India is so tough to ask Britain for something? The second point is that this incident was initiated by Modi, the current helmsman of India. The third point is why should India ask Britain for something?
Today, let's talk about the first point, why India is so tough on Britain this time.
In fact, India has been operating low-key over the years, and its strength has been very strong, but he has always been very low-key, so that many people ignore his existence.
Why is India so tough? Just three words, by strength!
Some people say that I am exaggerating, but I am not exaggerating at all.
Why do you say that? Here it is necessary to talk about the term comprehensive national strength.
The measure of a country's international status is its comprehensive national strength. Comprehensive national strength also includes economic, political, scientific and technological, military, diplomatic, cultural, spiritual and other strengths, as well as the geographical environment, natural resources, population and other basic strength on which it depends.
Looking at the content, there are a lot of economic and military science and technology diplomacy, in fact, there are four important ones, population, economy, military and science and technology. Among these four factors, population is the foundation, population determines the strength of the economy, and population and economy can promote the rise of science and technology and the military.
So the most important thing is population. India's population has now surpassed the continent to become the world's most populous country. Regarding the population of India, this article will not say more, the official who is not clear about this, you can turn to an article in my gongzhong number "next door to the earth", called "Finally, India won the first place in the world", or flip through the article video I posted.
In addition to population, India's economy is also very strong.
According to data released by the International Monetary Fund, India's total GDP in 2022 will be $3,386.4 billion, surpassing the United Kingdom for two consecutive years and ranking fifth in the world. It is only $600 billion away from fourth-ranked Germany and more than $800 billion away from third-ranked Japan.
GDP of the world's top ten economies
Although India is still a big cut short of the $25.4 trillion of the United States and the $18 trillion of our country, India also has another data that is also very strong.
The IMF's forecast of the economic growth rate of each country
According to the International Monetary Fund, India's economic growth rate in 2022 is 6.8, 5.9 in 2023 and 6.3 in 2024, making it the only country among the world's top ten economies to grow faster than 6. It is estimated that India will soon surpass Germany and Japan, and its economy will leap to the third largest in the world.
India is not only economically strong, but also militarily not far behind.
India has always regarded the expansion of military strength as an important symbol of its ambition to become a world-class power, and the ultimate goal of its national strategy is to dominate South Asia, directly control the Indian Ocean, and become one of the world's military powers.
The Indian aircraft carrier caught fire
India considers itself the third largest army in the world, fifth in its navy and sixth in its air force. The army, navy and air force have 1.444 million troops in active service; the army has more than 3,400 main battle tanks, more than 350 helicopters, and thousands of guns of various types; the navy has 155 ships of various types, including two aircraft carriers, 11 destroyers, 19 frigates and 19 submarines; and the air force has more than 1,400 combat aircraft of various types. According to U.S. intelligence, India also possesses nuclear weapons such as atomic bombs and intercontinental missiles.
Indian rocket launch explodes
In terms of science and technology, India is not far behind.
India's information technology is very developed, and many people work in top European and American technology companies. In terms of medicine, the Indian pharmaceutical industry is known as the "pharmacy of the world" because it is the main supplier of generic drugs and one of the countries with the highest number of FDA-approved factories in the United States. In terms of aerospace, India is the sixth country in the world after the United States, Russia, China, France and Japan to have the ability to design, manufacture and launch geosynchronous orbit satellites with completely independent rockets, and has set a world record of 104 satellites with one arrow. The famous Tata Group is the largest group company in India.
Tata Group
It can be said that India has faintly risen and has a posture to catch up with China and the United States.
Even India, which has applied five times to become a permanent member of the United Nations, playing a larger role on the world stage, has been blocked by the P5. The P5 stipulates that each country can only apply for permanent membership five times every 50 years, and India can only wait until the next 50 years to apply for permanent membership in the United Nations again.
As an old capitalist empire, Britain, in recent years, has been in a corner of Europe, and has gradually been surpassed by some emerging countries in all aspects, except for being a permanent member of the United Nations, it has become less and less existential.
Speaking of which, everyone should understand why India dares to ask Britain for something so strongly.
Because the strength is so strong that I have to ask for it!
India, a power that cannot be ignored.
India rose and began to liquidate the British Empire.
Next, let's talk about why Modi and India want things from the UK.
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