Is our poodle looking for a new master? For those of you who are ignorant cats, our means U.S.A., poodle means UK and the new master would be China. Well, some in UK are arguing that it should be India which perhaps is better suited for the role of the new master because Indians tend to be kind for the most part.
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Perhaps India, rather than China, should be the target of Britain’s charm offensive
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According to Steve Hilton, former chief strategist to David Cameron, Britain is humiliating itself unnecessarily by “sucking up” to China when instead it could be “rolling out the red carpet” for India. “We should prioritise our relationship with India because that’s where the opportunity is,” he said this week on BBC Newsnight, striking a resonant chord with the many British citizens, of Indian origin and otherwise, who see India as the more natural and sympathetic ally. Parliamentary democracy, a free media, the English language, tea with milk: however ruthless and greedy British imperialism may have been, its 250-year history in India left that country with several of the imperfect institutions, beliefs and habits that Britain finds familiar and admirable.
Perhaps India, rather than China, should be the target of Britain’s charm offensive