{"id":65783,"date":"2024-06-04T21:07:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T21:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/04\/wednesday-briefing-modis-bruising-path-to-a-third-term\/"},"modified":"2024-06-04T21:07:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T21:07:07","slug":"wednesday-briefing-modis-bruising-path-to-a-third-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/04\/wednesday-briefing-modis-bruising-path-to-a-third-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Briefing: Modi\u2019s Bruising Path to a Third Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/06\/05\/multimedia\/05ambriefing-asia-modi-fbht\/05ambriefing-asia-modi-fbht-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Wednesday Briefing: Modi\u2019s Bruising Path to a Third Term\" title=\"Wednesday Briefing: Modi\u2019s Bruising Path to a Third Term\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-2f4bdc15\">Modi wins, but his party suffers losses<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India claimed a third term in office yesterday. But early results suggest his party won by a far narrower margin than expected. The aura of invincibility around Modi <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/04\/world\/asia\/modi-india-election.html?smid=url-share\" title=\"\">has been shattered.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Results indicated that Modi\u2019s Bharatiya Janata Party would still win the most parliamentary seats, but not enough for an outright majority. It will likely need smaller parties in its coalition to form a government. The outcome was a surprising setback for the B.J.P.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">See <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/06\/03\/world\/asia\/results-india-lok-sabha-election.html\" title=\"\">live results here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Indian National Congress, the main opposition, was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/04\/world\/asia\/indian-national-congress-rahul-gandhi-election.html\" title=\"\">doing better than expected<\/a>. The party had been seen by many as irrevocably weakened after big losses in the previous two elections. The Congress and its allies increased their margin against Modi by tapping into issues like unemployment, social justice and the prime minister\u2019s ties to India\u2019s billionaires.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Context:<\/strong> Modi will be only the second Indian leader to start a third straight term after Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister. Modi called it \u201c<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/06\/03\/world\/india-election-results\/heres-the-latest-on-the-election-in-india?smid=url-share\" title=\"\">a historical feat in India\u2019s history<\/a>\u201d yesterday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Economy:<\/strong> As the results became clearer, India\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/04\/world\/asia\/india-stock-market-election.html\" title=\"\">stock markets plunged<\/a>. By the end of trading yesterday, the markets were down 6 percent, nearly wiping out the year\u2019s gains.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-3b7512c2\">What Ukraine has lost<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since World War II, few countries have experienced the level of devastation that Ukraine has. But until now, the scale has been too vast to see more than a glimpse at a time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">My colleagues published <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/06\/03\/world\/europe\/ukraine-destruction.html\" title=\"\">the first comprehensive picture of the totality of the destruction.<\/a> Using detailed analysis of years of satellite data, they created a record of each town, each street, each building that has been blown apart.<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>In some places, like the city of Marinka, not a single resident is left. So many people have lost more than their homes. They\u2019ve lost their communities, their histories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf I shut my eyes, I can see everything from my old life,\u201d said Iryna Hrushkovksa, 34, who was born and raised in the city, adding, \u201cBut if I open my eyes, it\u2019s all gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">The scale of destruction: <\/strong>More buildings have been destroyed in Ukraine than if every building in Manhattan were to be leveled four times over. Parts of Ukraine look like Dresden or London after World War II, or Gaza after half a year of bombardment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">HIMARS: <\/strong>Ukraine <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/04\/world\/europe\/ukraine-strikes-russia-western-weapons.html\" title=\"\">used a U.S.-made rocket system to destroy missile launchers<\/a> inside Russia, a Ukrainian official said. The strikes came just after the U.S. granted permission for Ukraine to do so.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-4850fbe4\">Israel killed an Iranian general in Syria<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Israeli airstrikes in Syria <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/06\/03\/world\/israel-gaza-war-hamas\/israeli-airstrikes-on-syria-kill-a-general-from-a-branch-irans-revolutionary-guards?smid=url-share\" title=\"\">killed an Iranian general<\/a> who was there as an adviser, the Iranian media said. He<strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\"> <\/strong>was believed to be the first Iranian killed by Israel since the two countries almost went to war in April, after Israel bombed Iran\u2019s embassy compound in Syria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Iran is currently enmeshed in a leadership crisis stemming from the death of its president last month. A new wave of attacks on Israel seems unlikely. The Iranian was identified as Gen. Saeed Abyar, a member of the Quds Force, a branch of the Revolutionary Guards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Gaza:<\/strong> In an interview with Time magazine<strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">, <\/strong>President Biden suggested that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/06\/04\/world\/israel-gaza-war-hamas\/biden-says-there-is-every-reason-to-believe-netanyahu-is-prolonging-the-war-for-political-reasons?smid=url-share\" title=\"\">prolonging the war<\/a> to stay in power.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-1uuxri4 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-55bd377a\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">MORE TOP NEWS<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Benjamin Bolger has spent his life <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/03\/magazine\/benjamin-bolger-college-harvard-yale.html\" title=\"\">amassing academic degrees<\/a>. He has 14 advanced degrees, including a few that took many years to complete, such as a doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The reason for his university quest is simple: \u201cI love learning,\u201d he told our reporter.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-1uuxri4 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-286d948a\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">CONVERSATION STARTERS<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"css-1uuxri4 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-61b76e56\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">ARTS AND IDEAS<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-41787e8f\">Chinese websites are disappearing<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">China\u2019s internet is vanishing in chunks. Posts are being removed and censored.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As of 2023, there were only 3.9 million sites, down from 5.3 million in 2017, the country\u2019s internet regulator found. A recent post on WeChat reported that nearly all information shared on China\u2019s internet \u2014 news portals, blogs, forums, social media sites \u2014 between 1995 and 2005 was no longer available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While it\u2019s costly and difficult to archive a website anywhere, internet publishers in China are under intense pressure to censor as the country has made an authoritarian turn under Xi Jinping\u2019s leadership, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/04\/business\/china-internet-censorship.html\" title=\"\">Li Yuan writes in the column The New New World.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Internet companies have more incentive to over-censor and let older content disappear by not archiving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Two weeks ago, Nanfu Wang, a documentary filmmaker, searched her name on the film review site Douban and came up with nothing. \u201cSome of the films I directed had been deleted and banned on the Chinese internet,\u201d she said. \u201cBut this time, I feel that I, as a part of history, have been erased.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-1uuxri4 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-705d9918\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">RECOMMENDATIONS<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/04\/world\/asia\/modi-election-results-bjp-ukraine-asia.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modi wins, but his party suffers losses Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India claimed a third term in office yesterday. But early results suggest his party won by a far narrower margin than expected. The aura of invincibility around Modi has been shattered. Results indicated that Modi\u2019s Bharatiya Janata Party would still win the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/06\/05\/multimedia\/05ambriefing-asia-modi-fbht\/05ambriefing-asia-modi-fbht-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[235,23202,3135,18076,6185,7780],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65785,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65783\/revisions\/65785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}