General · 7 January 2026
Why America Targets India, Not China, in Global Power Politics
The US increasingly frames India as a pressure point because it is visible, successful, yet geopolitically constrained. China, by contrast, wields leverage through rare-earth dominance critical to batteries, chips, and electric vehicles. Influenced by thinkers like René Girard, US elites linked to Peter Thiel and JD Vance view scapegoating as a stabilising political tool. India lacks comparable coercive leverage, making it an easier symbolic target amid economic strain, rising costs, and global power realignment.
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