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Indian government grants more powers to the military as popular anger over COVID-19 catastrophe mounts
As popular anger mounts across India over the authorities’ utter failure to curb the tsunami of COVID-19 cases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his far-right, Hindu-supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government are granting more powers to the military in the name of controlling the disease. The BJP’s principal concern, however, is not suppressing the virus. It is strengthening the military and boosting its public image in preparation for suppressing social opposition to its criminal mishandling of the pandemic and push to “revive” India’s economy through a battery of “pro-investor” reforms.
The Australian government's words may reflect real concerns about the possibility of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan a conflict that could ultimately involve the entire Asia region and even the US.