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Last month, "US President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping exchanged warm words at a lavish White House state dinner but gave little indication of progress on pressing issues." "Billionaire business leaders and US tech CEOs joined the leaders at the extravagant dinner." BBC. "The two leaders extended a trade truce, exchanged gifts and compliments, and acknowledged the possibility of working together to contain the dangers of AI development." And so, "the Washington trip was relatively uneventful. But for Xi's own ambitions, China didn't need much else." CNN. "Artificial Intelligence, which...Trump has now branded as 'super intelligence' or SI, is reminding more and more of the dangerous Cold War contest between the US and the erstwhile Soviet Russia. With AI companies themselves pointing at possible risk to humanity, it could be even more dangerous than nuclear weapons," so that, "What looked like another tech race between the US and China is turning into a contest over economic power, military capability and technological innovation, with both governments treating the control of AI as a matter of national security." ET. India shares a 3,488 km border with China (mha.gov.in) which, with its advanced technological and defence capabilities, is the greatest existential threat to India. This cloying relationship between the US and China is bad news for us. In addition, "Autonomous technology and defence firm Powerus," with "significant financial backing from...Trump's eldest sons, Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump," "formalized a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and received a limited procurement order from the Ministry of Defence of Pakistan for unmanned aerial systems and associated technical support." This strategic agreement, "signalling a notable warming of defence tech collaboration between Washington and Islamabad," "has heightened geopolitical stakes across the border, drawing serious concern from New Delhi." News 18. This is despite, or maybe because, Pakistan is an 'Iron Brother' of China, whose friendship is 'harder than steel' (CIIS). On the other hand, "Since 2025, India-US ties have been strained following Operation Sindoor, and the Trump administration's tariff announcement." During this time, "India's paid congressional operation in Washington has also shrunk from a multi-firm network to a single account." "Thus when India needed to position its Russian energy imports as an energy necessity forced by the Iran war rather than a policy choice, it had few allies left on the Hill." NDTV. In his speech at the UN General Assemby meeting in September, Trump again repeated his claim that he prevented a war between India and Pakistan after India launched Operation Sindoor on 7 May 2025 (pib. gov.in) in response to a terrorist attack on 22 April 2025 at Pahalgam in Kashmir in which 26 unarmed civilians were gunned down (wikipedia). "The Prime Minister of Pakistan, terrific man, said that Donald Trump was responsible for saving 30 million lives and probably many more than that," Trump said. NDTV. About 10,000 protesters turned up in Mumbai yesterday demanding the resignation of the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar for deleting voters' names from the election rolls in favor of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). TOI. This has been dubbed 'vote chori' (stealing of votes) and has made Mr Modi's election victories illegitimate. "Foreign diplomats are unable to ignore the new realities." "In this context, the meeting this May between Rahul Gandhi and the heads of missions of 27 European members was an unusual engagement. September witnessed separate meetings with the Australian High Commissioner Philip Green and Russian Ambassador Denis Alipov." US Ambassador Sergio Gor and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim have also met Mr Gandhi, wrote Anil Tyagi. Mr Modi heads a minority government with the support of allied parties in the Lok Sabha. wikipedia. When they start getting jittery the end will begin to come. The countdown has begun. 10,9...