CIA exists everywhere. That does not mean Indian power circle is infiltrated. It is a fact that India has 15% muslims who will side with anyone who is anti India and hence easy to get moles. India has maintained strict control over its strategic interests. That is how India could hide its nuclear testing in 1998. Indian english news and social media has been always pro USA. But the reality is that most of Indian news is disseminated by local media and gossips. Indian elections are not heavily influenced by social media. There is indeed an influence of Whatsapp but that is peer to peer and hence the issue of US control does not arise. No election is won or lost on SM like Twitter, FB etc. So, though India ahs been infiltrated by CIA, it is limited to non strategic domain and even without CIA, India has large number of muslims and christians who are anyways foreign agents. Even in 1920, they started Khilafat movement in support of Ottomans. India does have infiltration but has enough ammunition to counter it and that nullifies USA power.
"safer,cleaner,business friendly,better in infrastructure,pragmatic in approach and easier to operate" - this is a big joke. ASEAN countries have no real technology and only serve as labour camps. In return for their oil, USA invested in infratsructure and other equipment manufacturing but all of these are simpler technologies. Malaysia and Indonesia can't even make a full car by itself till now and if you call that "safer,cleaner,business friendly,better in infrastructure,pragmatic in approach and easier to operate" you have some problems.
India is a second largest producer of oil? Are you out of your mind? India is a refiner of oil which refines imported oil and sells it back. Indian oil production is just 700k barrels a day whereas Indonesia produces close to 1million barrels a day. Malaysia, Vietnam etc act as USA hub for providing labour in assemblig electronics. But they have no real economy independently. India on the other hand, has technology to make semiconductors upto 65nm, radars, ships, submarines, nuclear rectors, aircrafts (older gen) and many other equipment of advanced technology.
Why should anyone ignore oil or mineral production or limit it to Arab states? If you don't know the net exports of Indonesia, Malaysia in oil, coal and other minerals historically, it is your fault. Vietnam is an exception and that too because it is located next to China and acts as an intermediary to China by helping reroute shipments to subvert customs duty and also as a trading hub to Chinese industrial areas by virtue of its long coastline. In other words, without acting as China's hub, Vietnam's economy will be similar to Cambodia or Laos.
You have not given a single proper reason to say why ASEAN is better than India but simply made rhetorical remarks and denied the most obvious thing - oil, coal and mineral resources and simply jumped to foolish conclusions
CIA exists everywhere. That does not mean Indian power circle is infiltrated. It is a fact that India has 15% muslims who will side with anyone who is anti India and hence easy to get moles. India has maintained strict control over its strategic interests. That is how India could hide its nuclear testing in 1998. Indian english news and social media has been always pro USA. But the reality is that most of Indian news is disseminated by local media and gossips. Indian elections are not heavily influenced by social media.
How do you know the admin isn't backed by the US?(i don't mean operated by). If US was against the gov,the admin would have been torn to smithereens by the cartel of Western media for some of the actions it took, which on the same yardstick,India would be labeled much worse than anything china ever committed in past decade.
How do you know CIA didn't promise anything for election advantage? how do you know many of the politicians aren't on CIA payroll? When money is flowing everywhere from US agencies into India...
With the exception of countries like Myanmar(during aung san suu kyi regime), Columbia and some small nations ,no country is directly ruled by Washington ,but it involves long-arm jurisdiction and backing pro US leaders and Washington does greatly influence the political choice of those nation,through their various means,economic(dollar ,swift,remittance),technology(semiconductor,weapons,gps)-military and propaganda. US don't care about religion,they care about US Interest.
India is a second largest producer of oil? Are you out of your mind? India is a refiner of oil which refines imported oil and sells it back. Indian oil production is just 700k barrels a day whereas Indonesia produces close to 1million barrels a day.
India indigenously produced 32 mm/t of crude oil in 2020,
Meanwhile India refined 69m/t of crude oil in 2020.
Both are aided by oil production but not oil dependent economies now.
Malaysia, Vietnam etc act as USA hub for providing labour in assemblig electronics. But they have no real economy independently. India on the other hand, has technology to make semiconductors upto 65nm, radars, ships, submarines, nuclear rectors, aircrafts (older gen) and many other equipment of advanced technology.
What do you mean by no Independent economy?Does India export anything indigenous of significance compared to ASEAN ?ASEAN provides better everything from infrastructure, hardworking workforce ,ease of business etc ,hence they prefer ASEAN nations instead of India ,even though ASEAN is more expensive than India.
Those nations aren't starving a portion of their nations to " screw driver expert" russian-israeli-US weapon systems after splashing billions and then gloat,get real ,what indigenous tech did India invent or at least improved upon upon?the altered versions turns even worse.
Asean can built almost every thing India can,and even better,many of the asean nation for eg -Thailand are much higher on value added chain of manufacturing. Singapore is on a whole another level than India.
India doesn't make 65nm chips,India's small scale fabs produces 180 nm chips for some military use.Malaysia has their own fab plant that can produce up to 180nm.
Why should anyone ignore oil or mineral production or limit it to Arab states? If you don't know the net exports of Indonesia, Malaysia in oil, coal and other minerals historically, it is your fault.
Because they are like 10-15% of export.Unlike in states like SaUDI Arabia ,where Mineral fuels including oil accounts for 80.4% of total exports.
Vietnam is an exception and that too because it is located next to China and acts as an intermediary to China by helping reroute shipments to subvert customs duty and also as a trading hub to Chinese industrial areas by virtue of its long coastline. In other words, without acting as China's hub, Vietnam's economy will be similar to Cambodia or Laos.
Sure proximity to china helps, ,but there are many nations in proximity to china not just vietnam,so don't denigrate the Vietnamese aptitude and effort for manufacturing.India is cheaper and close to China itself.
If India was balkanized I can bet a million there will be many failed states far poorer than Cambodia or Laos.Many Indian states are poorer than these. These region like Cambodia had 3 million of their most educated and best minds genocided leaving only farmers,though one of the fastest growing nation in ASIA and laos has higher per capita income than India and the development is fast. Give them time,geography and internal political stability can exacerbate or deaccelerate development.