INDIA: In Serious Economic, Geopolitical Trouble with China, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Weakening Economy!

"@ReutersIndia: #Rupee trading below 67.50 per dollar after hitting a new life low

"@CNBCWorld: Take a look at #emergingmarket currencies year-to-date. #Rupee worst hit, down 23%: [link to t.co]

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Q: What is the state of India’s present day economy? A: India, has defied Wall Street’s predictions that the BRIC nations [Russia, Brazil, India, China] would be the fastest and most sustainable emerging markets. • India is presently struggling to reverse the downward spiral of the rupee, it’s currency, against the dollar. • India has the second largest population, growing at the rate of 400 million people [more than the entire USA population] per year. India will be far more populated than China by the year 2050. • Together China and India constitute one third of the world’s population at present. They are both the most significant players in the import of crude oil, coal and natural gas. They are natural competitors because of their close geographical proximity to one another. Both countries compete against eagerly against each other for commodities from Brazil, Kazakhstan, Colombia, Afghanistan as well as in Kenya, Tanzania, and Bangladesh

Q . What is the problem between India and Bangladesh? A: Since 1974 when Bangladesh, three years after it’s hard fought war with Pakistan, has had border disputes with it’s northern neighbor, India. In particular the presence of Indian and Bangladeshi enclaves on both sides of the border between West Bengal and Bangladesh has created security and political obstacles to relations between the two independent nations. India has been trying to stop the illegal influx of drugs, weapons, militants and immigrants. Sounds , like Mexico and the USA? In 2001, there were major conflagrations between two right-of-center nationalist parties, the Bharatiya Janata Party in New Delhi and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in Dhaka.

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