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Imustaskforhelpyesterday at 8:17 PM2 repliesview on HN

For what its worth, I have to mention that India losses more on this deal than Europe because India's actually for the first time iirc imo giving up tariffs or reducing them. India has the highest tariff rates for a developing country from the start (indiscriminant) and is only offering upgrades to EU mostly fwiw in terms of this free trade deal.

I have heard this deal be described as EU beneficiary from EU sources.

Ah yes, I feel like what you want for an EU is a connection with America which has been a very unreliable partner would even be an understatement in today's geopolitical environment.

It's saddening to see if you are from EU who actually believes so. I am more than happy to answer your queries in good faith but this just feels like pushing some of your own agenda or straight up racist.

We come with open arms even though the massacre of jallianwala bagh is still in our memories. There is just no question regarding the fact that EU primarily british forces had extracted immense wealth from India and India had to primarily rebuild it from scratch healing from the scars of its colonial past.

There's actually an internal pushback from some people i feel like who feel like EU is still imperialist & want to shut down this deal from India side given India hasn't lost much after the trump's tariffs compared to EU whose greenland was in some serious sovereign threats.

But I guess the point is that EU India deal is inevitable in this multi polar deal. India wants EU to be the financial hub where EU can then reinvest in India and India can create technological innovation.

I have tried to respond with as much calm as possible but I must admit that your message felt like a must admit,ragebait to me in start but I hope that this detailed message can help clear up on the details.

If you have any reasonable questions man, feel free to ask!


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coffe2mugtoday at 6:34 AM

Both may benefit. Some will lose. If benefits overweigh losses then ok.

Well Rapido bike means Auto-wallas are angry. That is reality.

The highest tariffs are holding India back. A decent original nike shoe is about €50 here but why it is Rs5000 there (with lower Purchasing power). Local businesses have too long bribed Indian politicians. Recently I replaced the gate of my house here in EU. It was 20 years old. No rust despite old. I remember the steel supplied by our companies is crap - we repaired our gate every few years. Or it was not properly painted.

Costs of computer etc are too high for any startup etc. and with our talent more cheaper imports from china would be great to build a local giant.

On the other hand our people do

- exploit Digital Ocean T-shirt give away to create stupid pull requests and burden maintainers in GitHub open source project

- curl dev stopped bug bounty due to many sending AI reports

- clone AOSP and IIT Chennai said it have created a independent OS.

Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmai founder) recently said we have become users not creators.

Even Ambani with all his money can't do a good tech company.

oblioyesterday at 8:27 PM

You do know that the UK literally isn't in the EU, right? A lot of your rant is really weird.

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