US-UK BLIND EYE TO INDIA’S SECURITY THREATS HELPING PRC

Security agencies in US, UK and Canada have collected extensive information about the Isi-sponsored ‘Khalistan’ movement within their borders since 1985. However, THE REACTION OF THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES TO THESE FINDINGS HAS BEEN ONE OF UNCONCERN.

Researchers tracking the infiltration of Ccp-linked online entities into chat forums in the United States and India identified an intensification since 2017 of the Sinowahabi effort at (a) causing the fringes in both countries to grow at the expense of the moderate middle, and (b) creating mistrust within the population of each country about the other. It was in 2017 that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had surprised the PRC by ordering the military to resist the PLA’S effort to seize territory belonging to Bhutan. 2017 was also when

President Donald J. Trump humiliated the well-funded PRC lobby in the US by imposing higher tariffs on a range of Chinese imports. That the online space in India was being misused by Pla-linked entities for purposes of hybrid warfare by the PRC against India was quickly understood by Modi, who in 2020 became the first world leader to impose a ban on a broad range of metadata-accumulating China-linked online apps popular with the public, including Tik-tok. Even a superficial examination of the difference between outcomes and effects caused by the difference between the algorithms used in the US by Bytedance (the PRC company that controls Tik-tok) and those used in China would show why Tik-tok, a popular Ccpcontrolled social media platform, has, through its functioning, encouraged behaviour in young US and Indian citizens that promoted societal divisions and anger, in contrast to Douyin, the PRC version, which clamps down on searches that incite such negative feelings in contrast to Tik-tok in the US and India versions. It was this transparent effort at causing social tensions and a climate of rage within the young in particular that caused the ban on Tik-tok in India and which is fuelling efforts to replicate