BBC AND HINDENBURG DARTS FAIL TO WOUND PM MODI

The Prime Minister did what those having confidence in his integrity had predicted that he would do, which was to do nothing to rescue the business group.

A city state that has from the start pened its door to all four corners of the world and prospered as a result has become a crossroads of 21st century information warfare. From here, alternate realities that are cooked up by much bigger powers disseminate to the far corners of the globe, initially not in the form of press reports, but as cocktail gossip that subsequently provides fodder for social media tsunamis. The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, has the unenviable distinction of being the primary target of both camps in the ongoing skirmishes of Cold War 2.0. Both the superpowers, China and the United States, operate freely in Singapore, a metropolis that was fashioned into a global commercial power by the genius of Lee Kuan Yew. In the case of China, only a single channel, that which is sanctioned, indeed sanctified, by the support of the top leadership of the Chinese Communist Party CCP), dares to publicly expose its infowar talons. In the case of the US, very different power centres spew their own ersatz version of the facts in multiple directions, in the process utilising various channels. While those giving priority to global security interests are appreciative of the way in which India is being transformed by Prime Minister Modi, those whose family and friends feed at the trough of the authoritarian superpower and its subsidiary satellite powers and interests seek to bring down the image and resonance of India, including by generating vicious and unrestrained personal attacks on the country’s elected Prime Minister.