Brent Colton is a retired CIA operations officer now in the employ of the Creighton Corporation, a privately owned think tank that advocates various opinions on world issues, but it’s his clandestine job to solve the dirty problems for their private clients for a million dollar fee with no questions asked. When recovering stolen technology from a Vietnamese industrialist, Colton obtains evidence that he secretly partnered with a U.S. Senatorto rig the recent presidential election and elect him to the nation’s highest office.

INDIA: POISED TO BECOME THE NEW CHINA?
by Terry Heath, 2006

Four articles in the July, 2006 issue of Foreign Affairs magazine that’s run by the highly influential Council of Foreign Relations and the cover story for the June 26, 2006 issue of Time Magazine concerns the same topic, the fact that India is rapidly becoming an economic world power and is now a good place to have goods made at a great profit to those elitists who run things on the planet.

Let’s face facts. The United States doesn’t seem to make anything anymore yet we still need consumable products. All we seem to do is demand those products we use be as cheap as possible from wherever convenient without regards that it has destroyed American manufacturers in the long-term. So is it a coincidence that these two highly influential magazines to those in the business and political worlds are promoting the same story that a new India where money can be made has arrived on the global stage? Or are the global elite belatedly letting the rest of us know that India’s emergence as a world economic power should be exploited while there’s money to be made.

So if the Council on Foreign Relations is promoting India as a great place for their business cronies to invest it’s obvious that the super rich are sending a message that they believe that east Asian country could be the next hotspot to send manufacturing jobs to make the cheap products the naïve and short-sighted American consumers crave.

This new development is a radical departure from our foreign policy goals of the last 35 years in that always-volatile region. Our previous political fortunes had been tied toward Pakistan since 1971 when then President Richard Nixon tilted that direction during the Indian-Pakistani War. So it may come as a surprise to many that the political and banking elite have determined that India is a better place to make money even though Pakistan is supposedly our better ally in our continuing war on terror groups in neighboring Afghanistan and Iraq.

But there’s also another development to consider in our suddenly warm relations with India. The Bush administration has worked out an agreement with them to cooperate with us in the civilian uses of atomic energy and get that country to renounce any future creation of nuclear weapons and is hoping to get a surprisingly reluctant Congress to sign onto the deal. Yet skeptics believe this understanding will make it easier for India to export such materials to make nuclear weapons to willing third world countries. The House of Representatives approved the deal on July 27th but the Senate has yet to take up the matter.

Because of our previous alignment towards Pakistan begun under Nixon for these last three decades India was considered the leader of the non-aligned neutral countries of the world but could be viewed as leaning more towards the Soviet Union than America in the 1970’s and 1980’s until the Cold War ended. They then started pursuing a vigorous capitalistic economic policy in the 1990’s that has spawned their great boom the last few years that have made their country attractive to globalists seeking the next region to make their money.

So for the last few decades the global elite have shifted their interests from Europe and the Americas to Asia where goods could be made cheaper by an eager and young work force that can be easily exploited. India and China each now have over one billion citizens with India having the largest democracy in the world. So think about that fact. Just in those two countries reside one out of every three people on the planet with India set to pass China as the most populous country in the world by 2015.

The U.S. Census Bureau projects that we will have our 300 millionth citizen later this year. But India and China have a combined population that is already eight times our present count. So the global elite must view them as a growing region of potential consumers who have yet to establish long-term brand loyalties to consumable products as the nation-state concept continues to diminish in significance and influence and the world becomes just one large market to sell goods to each other.

And Time Magazine reports that India has 300 million citizens whom can be considered middle class and eager to buy products that will give them the promised good life. That’s equal to the current entire U.S. population! And India’s government is considered to be stable and not propaganda driven, as would still be the communist controlled Chinese government that de-emphasizes individual behavior such as choosing long-term consumer brand loyalties. So India already has the potential to become twice the size of what U.S. consumers currently are and a potential willingness under their democratic economy to go in as much debt as we Americans already are. The multi-national companies that run the world love that potential scenario for its future bottom line.

India still has its disputes with its mortal enemy Pakistan, so the downside for them in the short-term for developing a super economy is the ongoing terrorist attacks being committed inside the nation by suspected groups from their neighboring country. The recent July 11, 2006 attacks involving seven bombs placed in train stations in Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, (When did they change that?) by still unknown participants indicate that India still has problems that face all major industrial countries. So how will they react when they determine who is involved in these indiscriminate attacks? And will that reaction be enough to satisfy those seeking to relocate their manufacturing plants to that country and wanting a long-term stable environment there so their goods can be made?

India and China could be potential rivals over the next twenty-five years as America’s supplier of cheap goods. Yet India is also exporting its high-tech supply of employees to America while China can only offer an endless parade of low-tech unskilled minimum wage workers. That works to India’s long-term economic advantage.

So what about the future? If India can replace China now, then can we presume that Vietnam or some other Asian country will eventually replace them in ten years as the next nation the global elite can exploit to make their profits?

For twenty years we have demanded that low-skilled workers in Asia make the products we want at the lowest price we want to pay, then complain when our nation’s manufacturing ability has disappeared and we have to call some foreign land when we need technical support when our computers break down.

Richard Nixon successfully divided China against the Soviet Union in the early 1970’s for our short-term political and military benefit. Will one of our current politicians risk the wrath of the global elite by playing India against China for the benefit of our remaining American manufacturers by hurting those same elitists making their money from the top so we can get our products made back here without destroying their investments? I doubt it.

It’s been almost sixty years since Britain gave up its colonies after World War Two ended and India, the crown jewel of the once proud British Empire, gained its independence. Now that country is poised to become one of the elite economies of the world that, in laymen terms, means it is ready to be used by the global elite for a quick buck before they move on to their next victim.

So how can you and I get in on the next country that’s ready for exploitation?

Terry Heath California E-Mail readermail@terryheathbooks.com