US authorities have thwarted a plot to kill a Sikh separatist in the United States and issued a warning to India over concerns the government in New Delhi was involved, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed sources.
There were no immediate responses from India’s foreign ministry or the US embassy in New Delhi to requests for comment on the report.
The Financial Times said its sources did not say if the protest to India resulted in the plot being abandoned or if it was foiled by the FBI.
The protest to New Delhi was registered after the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, was welcomed on a state visit by the US president, Joe Biden, in June, the report said.
The report comes two months after Canada said there were “credible” allegations linking Indian agents to the June murder of a Sikh separatist leader, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, in a Vancouver suburb.
Between this, India’s continuing to buy Russian fuel, and their assassination plot in Canada and the fallout from that, it seems like India is moving politically away from the west. Will they align themselves more with Russia, China & Iran?
India has allegiances have always been more about convenience it seems.
I mean, considering colonization and things like that, the rest of the world’s allegiance to India has always been about convenience too it seems.
That absolutely doesn’t justify them trying to murder an activist, and Modi’s whole career of Hindu supremacy can fuck all the way off, but if we’re gonna bring up India’s history it seems like that’s an important part of how we got here
I think they want to build a new front rather than joining an existing one. They might align more with Russia but I don’t see India and China getting closer anytime soon.
The border clashes between India and China are getting more frequent. China and Pakistan are fairly aligned, which is a no-go for India. China doesn’t like that India is chiming in on the South Chinese Sea stuff (against China). China doesn’t like India “supporting” Tibet.
I don’t know enough about the relation between India and Iran to comment on it.
India is one of those countries that thinks Multipolarity is a euphemism for them winning geopolitics and becoming the secret true monopole.
See also, Turkey, Brazil, and Russia.
China to a lesser extent because they only really give a fuck about denying America options to fuck with them in a war scenario and aside from that are content so long as trade keeps flowing.
They’ve never really been aligned with the West post-colonialism. The US aligned itself with Pakistan during the Cold War and even sent in a carrier group to intimidate India from intervening in the Bangladeshi Liberation War. (Bangladesh was previously East Pakistan.)
India will never be aligned with China because China wants to steal substantial portions of India’s territory, both in Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh.
I don’t think India has ever been aligned with the west. Only with themselves, as it should be. They’ve always had close ties with Russia, China not so much.
It is absolutely correct that India has always been nonaligned. That said, the current diplomatic moves are entirely centered around the pseudofascist hindutva BJP party.
Rather than paint countries black and white on sides, its a really a game of taking advantage of situations for maximum gain. India plays 3rd wheel to benefit from others decisions.
Terrible strategy if they are. Russia and China have absolutely zero desire to help them. The West would actually work with them to address their economic issues and develop a more egalitarian society; Russia and China just want their resources.
They seem to be aligning themselves with Russian behaviour at least…