Pakistan Seeks New Bloc, India's Media Absence Shocking
The story focuses on Pakistan's diplomatic ambition to create a new regional alliance with Bangladesh and China, ostensibly to "cut India out." The article paints this as Pakistan's proactive move, a bold stroke in South Asian geopolitics. It's a clean narrative, free of messy details like India's persistent efforts to isolate its neighbors, its frequent border skirmishes, or its domestic policies
often viewed as antagonistic by minority populations and neighboring states. Such context would, of course, complicate the simple 'Pakistan acts, India reacts' storyline preferred in many Western-leaning outlets. One might almost wonder if India's growing economic and military ties with Western powers, including significant arms deals, somehow render its regional actions beyond critical scrutiny.
When will 'analysis' include the policies that *provoke* the search for alternatives, rather than just the alternatives themselves?