In the past two years, India has begun to make a frequent appearance in the international community. There are many people who are judging that India is on the rise.
In many international contexts, China has been collapsing and India has been rising. You see, according to this logical analysis, sooner or later India will surpass China.
Of course, I personally hope that the international community will continue to think like this, so that the United States, the black boss of our planet, will shift the target of sanctions and attacks to India. It's a good day when China won't be remembered by the black boss.
Unfortunately, this is not possible, because the rise of India is not real, it is a topic that has been engineered and deliberately disseminated to the outside world.
Don't just listen to what ordinary people say, experts in the international situation of the United States and the West have long understood that the topic of India's so-called rise is nothing more than a false topic deliberately created by the United States and the West to contain China's development. The true image of India has been thoroughly studied by foreign scholars, who just don't want too many Chinese to know.
Today, we will discuss from another angle, India's rise has long been blocked by its own "disobedient" strategy.
This year, something small and small happened in the international community - on March 18, South Korea held the Seoul Summit for Democracy, and India, as the world's "largest" democracy, naturally joined in the fun.
As originally planned, a joint statement on combating the proliferation and misuse of commercial spyware was issued at the intersessional session. The joint statement has a background to the fact that on February 6 this year, the United Kingdom and France launched a multi-party dialogue against commercial espionage, aimed at combating the misuse and sale of commercial espionage tools, and concluded with the declaration "The Pall Mall Process: Responding to the Proliferation and Irresponsible Use of Commercial Cyber Intrusion Capabilities".
At present, I have not found a standard translation of The Pall Mall Process, so I can only call it "Pomerian Process" according to the transliteration custom. Pall Mall can also be interpreted as a street in London, England, where there are many clubs, but I don't know if there is a direct connection to this process, and if it is related to this process, it can also be translated as "Bermel Process" as customary.
It is clear that the background to the British and French initiatives to combat commercial espionage software is that many countries or institutions are now misusing commercial espionage software to continuously access, collect, utilize, extract, intercept, retrieve, alter or delete or transmit content in the computer systems of targeted users, including information stored on or transmitted through devices connected to the Internet, which may include recording video, audio or phone calls, or tracking computer location.
This kind of behavior will not only cause the leakage of relevant military or commercial information, but also bring serious international disputes.
In the past two years, due to the development of computer technology, cases of illegal theft of secrets by using commercial espionage software have emerged one after another, but they have become more and more difficult to detect. For example, the "Pegasus" spyware tool developed by Israel's NSO Group is very famous in the industry, and the impact is very large.
The commercial spy "Pegasus" software of Israel's NSO Group, purchased by the Indian government, is monitoring cell phones worldwide
Israel NSO Group is an Israeli cybersecurity business, one of dozens of digital espionage tool development companies in Israel, and its products track any activity on smartphones. Israel's NSO Group claims that the Pegasus spyware is primarily used by governments and law enforcement agencies around the world to fight criminal networks and gather intelligence on terrorism.
But that's not the case, and in November 2021, Apple filed a lawsuit accusing Israel's NSO Group of using its Pegasus spyware to spy on and target Apple users in the United States.
In the end, the U.S. judge denied NSO Group's motion to delay the prosecution and required it to appear in the United States. Meanwhile, U.S. defense contractor L3 Harris Technologies is interested in acquiring Israel's NSO Group, which is being negotiated.
It can be said that it is precisely because of the powerful role of spyware such as "Pegasus" that it can be used for a wider range of intelligence spying, which seriously threatens the social order and national security of the West, prompting Britain and France to launch the "Pomerian Process".
I checked the original text of the "Pomel process", and there is this one -
We recognize that, across the market, many tools and services can be used for legitimate purposes, but they should not be developed or used in a way that threatens the stability of cyberspace or human rights and fundamental freedoms, or is inconsistent with applicable international law, including international humanitarian law and international human rights law. They should also not be used without proper safeguards and oversight. We are determined to explore the parameters of legitimate and responsible use by States, civil society, legitimate cybersecurity, and industry actors throughout the Pomerian Process.
At present, representatives of the African Union, Australia, the Gulf Cooperation Council, Malaysia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, the United States and Switzerland have signed the documents of the process. There are also companies and institutions such as Google, Microsoft, etc., which have also signed the documents.
At the Seoul Summit for Democracy, Britain and France demanded that all participating countries join in signing the Pomerian process, but the remarkable fact is that India's refusal to sign the policies promoted by this "democracy" suggests that India does not consider the use of commercial spyware to do something unacceptable.
Western observers recognize that India has historically been reluctant to sign agreements in which it has no say in negotiations. Notable examples include the Budapest Convention brokered by the European Commission and the Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace brokered by Microsoft and the French government, which India does not sign.
India's killing of a Sikh leader in Canada has sparked a diplomatic dispute
It is widely believed in the West that India's reluctance to sign the document stems from India's penchant for using spyware to attack Pakistani targets through hacking methods.
In addition, there have been reports that India has purchased Pegasus spyware from Israel's NSO group and used it against journalists and opposition leaders. Some time ago, India's assassination of Sikh leader Nijjar in Canada sparked a diplomatic dispute between the two countries, and since then there have been a number of transnational assassinations against Sikhs. This is one of the consequences of the Indian government's misuse of commercial spyware.
In fact, India is gradually getting involved in international espionage.
In October 2023, a Qatari court sentenced eight Indian citizens to death, and the Qatari court did not specify what crimes these men had committed. The eight Indians involved are all retired officers of the Indian Navy who were hired by Qatar's Al Dakhra Technologies Company to advise the Qatari government on the purchase of submarines and provide technical training services.
According to the speculation of relevant agencies, these eight individuals were spies recruited and trained by Israeli intelligence agencies, and they used their work to provide information collected on the operation of submarines of the Qatari Navy to Israel's Mossad intelligence agency. There are also Qatari media who believe that they are suspected of commercial espionage.
The Modi government acted swiftly and has been in constant communication with the relevant parties, including the families and the legal team. It is believed that these Indians were in fact instructed by the Government of India to gather intelligence through them to cooperate with Israel. This can also be explained as one of India's strong international support for Israel.
A Qatari court has sentenced eight Indian veterans to death, and the pro-Israeli government of Modi is furious
India's performance proves that this country is a country that does not abide by the Western order. The United States and the West have always been double-standard in using spyware to steal secrets. The "Five Eyes" alliance has done everything in global surveillance, but at the same time, they have introduced the "Pomel process" to restrict other countries from using spyware to spy on the United States and Western countries.
India's performance did not come as a surprise to the United States and the West, and the United States and the West, as always, did not condemn India's behavior. In the eyes of the United States and the West, no matter how much India boasts, the size of this country has not risen to the point where it can threaten the United States and the West right now.
Now, the wishful thinking of the United States and the West is that no matter how much India shows its unsociable characteristics in the club of international rules, as long as you can contain some of China's energy, you will be useful and can develop appropriately.
However, India's ambition does not allow it to put itself in the position of merely acting as a lackey of the United States and the West, and it wants to take advantage of the opportunity when the United States and the West do not restrict its development too much, and in the future it will take the banner of "the world's largest democratic power" to act as the "king of the world."
However, the United States and the West have gradually realized that India is becoming more and more powerless in containing China, and the Russian-Ukrainian war is coming to an end, and India is not heeding the temptation of the United States and the West to start a war with China on the border and start a new war similar to the Russian-Ukrainian war.
The United States and the West also understand that it is now a critical moment to contain China's rise, and perhaps in five to ten years, China will be so strong that it will not be afraid of any suppression by the United States and the West. At that time, the United States and the West will have to seriously explore the issue of how to get along with China amicably, and try not to provoke China's anger.
At that time, India, which has defrauded the United States and the West of a large amount of resources, will surely usher in a violent attack and harvest by the United States and the West if it wants to create any peculiarities in the national order of the United States and the West, and pretend to be an elephant with green onions in its nose.
The United States and the West have never lacked strategists, and now India's integration of industrialization resources has not yet been completed, and India's so-called rise is just empty talk. However, India's economic level is still rising year by year to a certain extent. Once India is unable to complete the task assigned to it by the United States and the West to contain China, then India can become a pig for the United States and the West to harvest fat.
When the time comes, political subversion, national division, and the control of core industries by foreign groups will be the congratulatory gifts that India can receive from the United States and the West.
Of course, India does not feel these things now, and thinks that it is capable of constantly undermining the national order constructed by the United States and the West. A double-standard "Pomelian process" does not matter in the first place, and this so-called process is to prevent members of the United States and the West from using commercial spyware to attack the dominant countries of this group, the United States, Britain and France. By signing this sign, India is saying that it will not challenge this order, but India's failure to sign shows that it does not want to be constrained in this regard, or that it has not reaped enough benefits from the United States and the West.
In the final analysis, India has used the strategy of "non-violent non-cooperation", and now the United States and the West have long studied this strategy thoroughly. When the day comes when India's development changes from quantitative change to qualitative change in rise, do you think the United States and the West will free up their hands to clean it up?
India's ambitions were exposed too early, but its ability to rise is very limited, and the way to rise has long been blocked by its performance of "disobedience to the management of the United States and the West".