Zardari is easy, what about Qin Gang?

"At least 30 people have been killed in ethnic clashes in the north-eastern Indian state of Manipur, officials say. The violence began earlier this week after a rally by indigenous communities against moves to grant tribal status to the main ethnic group in the state." BBC. "The army says it is bringing the situation under control but the Hindu-nationalist BJP-led government in the state has been accused of not doing enough to prevent the violence." The BJP won a majority in elections to the Manipur assembly in 2022, wikipedia, so it is safe till 2027. Why promise Scheduled Tribe status, which will grant reserved status in education and government jobs, to the majority tribe at this time? Could be because the next general election to the lower house of the Parliament, the Lok Sabha, is to be held by May 2024. wikipedia. "Ten police personnel and a driver were killed in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada District on Wednesday ( 26 April) in the worst attack on security forces in the Maoist insurgency-hit central Indian state since April 2021. Police said an improvised explosive device (IED) was used to blow up their vehicle when the policemen were returning from an anti-Maoist operation. Visuals showed the blast left a crater at the scene of the attack." "Five Indian Army soldiers were killed and one wounded during an operation against militants in Kashmir on Friday (5 May), the army said." Reuters. The number of security forces personnel killed in Kashmir dropped from 628 in 2001 to 18 in 2012 and then rose to 95 in 2018. satp.org. Article 370, which gave a special status to Kashmir was repealed in 2019. wikipedia. 56 security forces personnel were killed in 2020, 45 in 2021, 30 in 2022, and 11 have been killed this year. "Foreign Minister S Jaishankar has called his Pakistani counterpart Bilawal Bhutto Zardari 'the promoter, justifier and spokesperson of a terrorism industry'." NDTV. Zardari visited India for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) conference on 4 and 5 May in Goa. Mr Jaishankar may have been retaliating for Zardari calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi the "butcher of Gujarat" in December 2022 during his visit to the US. The Week. Just a day after Mr Jaishankar's attack, "After a meeting between Chinese and Pakistani foreign ministers, Qin Gang and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, in Islamabad on Saturday (6 May), the two sides issued a joint statement, taking a veiled swipe at New Delhi on the issue of Kashmir." DH. So, what did Mr Jaishankar call China? Absolute silence. "By now it is evident that China has successfully exploited the Indian government's penchant for secrecy as a personal weakness of PM Modi." DH. "China has correctly assumed that fear of a military escalation in Delhi holds back any bold Indian moves, diplomatic or military. The Modi government is gripped by a fear of provoking China." Seems like insecurity everywhere in India. Any other nation would have got rid of such an incompetent government. Not Indians. Are we especially stupid?