All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is going on in India. India is making news.

But you know, the interesting part about what's going on in India is that India is on the receiving

end of this news. This is not something that they've asked for. It's come to them. So you have this row with

Canada and with Trudeau. And now you have the sanctions on diamonds that I imagine the EU is going

to announce fairly soon in their, I think it's their 12th sanctions package.

Yeah. So, you know, it's really interesting to watch all of this go down because, once again, India hasn't really started any controversy, but all of a sudden they're embroiled in two.

I don't want to say the diamond issue is a controversy, but it's a problem that's coming to them.

They didn't ask for it. It's been hoisted onto them by the European Union.

Indeed. I'm going to say straight away what I think is going on.

The United States has made a big effort to win over India and to make friends with

India. This goes all the way back to George W. Bush and at the time, you know, the time when he

was president at the start of the century. But it has taken an extra, big extra dimension under Biden.

Because, of course, the Biden administration has been trying to enlist India as, in effect,

a kind of de facto ally against China.

And they've invited, they had Modi round to Washington a few months ago he was back in June

he was given an enormous reception there they pulled out all the stops to have him you know

well received he was in the he was in the white house I believe he visited Congress as well

anyway they've courted India as a

counterweight towards against China and they've also looked to India to obstruct the

development of the bricks because India is known to have a difficult relationship,

a complicated relationship with China. And I think that they were quite happy, or at least

back in June, they were quite happy in the US about the way things appeared to be going,

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