Oral proof is absolute.

"Within hours of India and Japan unveiling a series of agreements on defence, critical minerals, artificial intelligence, energy security and economic resilience, Beijing cautioned that cooperation between countries should not target a third party or 'create exclusive small groupings'." "Chinese officials may not publicly acknowledge it, but much of the summit agenda touched areas where China currently enjoys significant leverage. The push for diversified supply chains and reduced dependence on any single country was especially notable." ET. "At the invitation of the President of the Republic of Indonesia, H.E. Mr Prabowo Subianto, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will pay a visit to Indonesia from 6-8 July, 2026. This will be the Prime Minister's fourth visit to Indonesia." mea.gov.in. "If India and Indonesia finally seal a long-discussed BrahMos missile agreement, it will mark far more than another defence success for New Delhi." "The Philippines has already acquired BrahMos batteries and Vietnam has now joined the list." "Malaysia and Thailand have also reportedly shown interest." "Long range coastal missile batteries allow relatively smaller powers to exploit that geographic advantage without matching China ship for ship." ET. Poking China in the eye may be so satisfying but, "A tribal organisation in Arunachal Pradesh's upper Subansiri district has alleged that the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) has gradually occupied parts of its ancestral land along the India-China border, prompting calls for an official verification and an immediate response from the state and Central governments." MC. In June 2020, an unprovoked attack by the PLA barbarians, armed with clubs with nails, resulted in the death of 20 Indian soldiers at Galwan Valley in Ladakh. BBC. China is estimated to have lost over 40 soldiers. All those nations with BrahMos missiles will not come to the aid of India, so we must deal with our existential enemy China by ourselves. "On the one hand, India increasingly seeks a greater role in world affairs. On the other hand, its response to major international crises remains cautious and selective." "It seeks a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. Its capabilities, however, remain those of a rising power still undergoing economic and technological transformation." DH. "For more than a decade now, India has sought to build its 'strategic autonomy'. New Delhi has booked a place at every high table - the Quad with Washington, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization with Beijing, BRICS with Moscow, and the I2U2 Group with Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi." "Officials, cultivated the art of the rhetorical win, and crafted exquisite put-downs for neighbors and superpowers alike." The result is that, "India has friends everywhere, but leverage nowhere," wrote Mihir Sharma. In a WSJ piece, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent quotes a sentence Alexander Hamilton on 5 December 1791 which said that every nation "ought to endeavor to possess within itself all the essentials of national supply," wrote Aditya Sinha. To that end India started the Atmanirbhar (self reliance) Bharat Abhiyan on 13 May 2020 with an allocation of Rs 20 trillion. tribal.nic.in. The problem is that in 2024-2025, 93% of India's permanent magnet imports, 70% of bulk drugs and intermediaries and 87% of some antibiotic categories, all came from China. How can India become strong when the government does not consider any of us as citizens? Every Indian has to acquire all kinds of identity documents but not one certifies citizenship (ABP). Despite providing 15 documents a man could not prove his citizenship as the Gauhati High Court "held that oral testimony alone, without relevant documentary evidence to back it up, was not sufficient to establish the link between father and son." ET. Actually, oral testimony is conclusive. Just take swabs from the mouths of both men and test for DNA. Simple. Most worrying: if our soldiers are not citizens why are they dying to protect India? And our leaders. Who probably are the only citizens.