G-20 meeting in India ends without consensus on Ukraine war

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By AIJAZ RAHI and ASHOK SHARMA

BENGALURU, India (AP) — A meeting of finance chiefs of the Group of 20 leading economies ended on Saturday without a consensus, with Russia and China objecting to the description of the war in Ukraine in a final document.

The meeting hosted by India issued the G-20 Chair’s summary and an outcome document stating that there was no agreement on the wording of the war in Ukraine. The first day of the meeting took place on the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The Group of Seven major industrial nations announced new sanctions against Russia on Friday, just as the talks of the G-20 group wrapped up in confusion in the Indian technology hub of Bengaluru.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen condemned the “illegal and unjustified war against Ukraine” at a session attended by Russian officials and reiterated calls for G-20 nations to do more to support Ukraine and hinder Moscow’s war effort.



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[elleng]

1. 'hosted by India'

[tornado34jh]

2. I don't trust India to do the right thing

Their government is not only pro-Russia (same with most of their media) but the government is basically more or less a theocracy.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Unfortunately Modi and BJP supporting him seem racist and authoritarian: notice harrassment of BBC

BBC produced a documentary critical of Modi and broadcast it.

Then their Indian offices get heavily raided for "tax" issues. Funny how that happens.

Muslims in India increasingly suffer violence and discrimination at hands of Hindus while BJP look the other way or sometimes even abet it.

[tornado34jh]

8. Well, that is one thing I keep saying

When was the last time that a theocracy has ever been free? Also, I believe I read something the other day that Christians there are having the same issue. I think we forget that it is not limited to Islam, Christianity, or Judaism. There is extremism in Hinduism and Buddhism as well. Even non-religious people in India are being harassed by the government. But there also is a big divide between the northern parts of India and the southern parts, not just in language (Indo-Aryan and Dravidian), but also skin color. Colorism, which is basically their version of racism, is rampant there. Remember when Nina Davuluri won Miss America in 2014? A lot of people have said that in India, she would have never had a chance of winning there. They spend millions of dollars of lightening creams, surgical changes in skin, and so forth to appear "fair skinned". Basically, it's a relic from colonial times.

[brush]

3. Guess some of te G-20 want to invade their neighbors...

in the future also. The world knows Russia's invasion of Ukraine was unprovoked. Maybe others in the G-20 want to use the Russian model towards their neighbors:

The USSR/Russia invaded Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia 1968, Afghanistan 1979 into the '80s, Chechnya the '90s, Georgia 2006, eastern Ukraine 21014, and now western Ukraine 2022.

Guess Russia gets expansionist fever every decade.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

5. Here's a better source for the full truth....

AP left out a lot. AP is the Wests news, the East has other news.

« Ajay Seth, secretary of the department of economic affairs, said Russia and China contended the finance ministers have a mandate to deal with economic and financial issues and “should not get into global geopolitical issues. » 

He added « There was no request or demand to remove the word ‘war’ but to remove the paragraphs because it is not the right place...On the other hand, all other 18 countries felt the war has got implications for the global economy. So, this is the right place to have those paragraphs,” Seth said. »

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/g20-fin-min-meet-ends-without-joint-communique-as-china-russia-oppose-draft-101677341594118.html

[tornado34jh]

6. That source is exactly what I mean

It's the government source, and it is pro-Russia. I have even visited the Youtube channel, and a lot of people there support the war in Ukraine. I said this earlier that Putin has more support than a lot of people realize. They have the same Russian propaganda points. I don't trust most news from India because again, most of them are the government media, and to be quite frank, India has gone authoritarian and is basically a theocracy.

[Tom Rinaldo]

7. I take faint encouragement from India not taking the same position as China and Russia n/t

[FredGarvin]

9. India is basically a Russian ally.

Fukk India

[Alexander Of Assyria]

10. Over 1000 newspapers, 380 tv news channels, 36000 weeklies...constitutional protection.

https://rsf.org/en/country/india


Media landscape

The Indian media landscape is like India itself – huge and densely populated – and has more than 100,000 newspapers (including 36,000 weeklies) and 380 TV news channels. But the abundance of media outlets conceals tendencies toward the concentration of ownership, with only a handful of sprawling media companies at the national level, including the Times Group, HT Media Ltd, The Hindu Group and Network18. Four dailies share three quarters of the readership in Hindi, the country's leading language. The concentration is even more marked at the regional level for local language publications such as Kolkata’s Bengali-language Anandabazar Patrika, the Mumbai-based daily Lokmat, published in Marathi, and Malayala Manorama, distributed in southern India. This concentration of ownership in the print media can also be observed in the TV sector with major TV networks such as NDTV. The state-owned All India Radio (AIR) network owns all news radio stations.

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Lot to absorb about the Indian media, it has indeed and unfortunately become almost as consolidated and monopolized as American corporate media, but not there yet.

No fan of Modi after his suppression of Punjabi farmer, caving after many months of protests and violence and death, but he media there seems far from under control by the current elected federal

It’s the economy, stupid, also applies outside America, and the Indian economy has been roaring.

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The declining freedom is indeed of great concern, hopefully next federal election voters give Modi the boot, but still lot of independent media critical of all governments, federal and state. The media outcry, belated as it was, over the Sikh farmer situation goaded on by Modi, is recent example.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

11. India and China are not friends, of that no one can argue.