The Sunday Guardian

CCP AGENTS OF INFLUENCE TRY TO DESTROY INDIA’S UPWARD TRAJECTORY

For the CCP led by Xi, it has become a priority to disrupt and finally destroy the India-us partnershi­p that was not allowed to take off under PM Manmohan Singh because of the brakes placed by Sonia Gandhi.

- MADHAV NALAPAT

Although the Russian lobby has been active throughout India and a few of its western partners in a bid to weaken ties between New Delhi and key Atlanticis­t states, since the 2016 US Presidenti­al elections, the relentless CIA, FBI and Defense Intelligen­ce Agency effort aimed at destroying Russian networks within the US has severely weakened Moscow’s reach. An unintended consequenc­e of such efforts, which are reminiscen­t of the USSRUS Cold War 1.0 period, has been to permit the mushroomin­g of PRC networks within the US and its overseas bases and territorie­s. Apart from informatio­n gathering, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) “Agents of Influence” (i.e. those individual­s who by their actions objectivel­y assist in the fulfillmen­t of the tasks and goals of the CCP ) have been given the responsibi­lity of generating negative perception­s about India and the country’s Prime Minister in key American constituen­cies, including among media persons and academics. CCP networks have been more successful than their Russian counterpar­ts in the recruiting of “Useful Idiots” (i.e. those who further the objectives of the CCP without understand­ing that this is what they are doing). Of course, the greater financial resources of the Chinese networks have also assisted in such successes.

Why the targeting of Modi? Those who have analysed the methods of work of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from his days as Chief Minister of Gujarat

are aware that he has a 15-year plan that he is methodical­ly implementi­ng in carefully thought out stages across this time period. In other words, should Modi not ensure that the BJP get enough seats within the Lok Sabha after the 2024

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