South Bloc Reports

🇮🇳🇹🇼 Taiwan made an unprecedented move on July 9 by taking seven foreign MPs on a Coast Guard patrol near the Kinmen islands to counter China's increasing naval presence. ✍️Lawmakers from the UK, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, India and New Zealand (all IPAC members) joined the 90-minute patrol. 🇮🇳✍️ The representative from India who took part in that highly sensitive patrol near the Kinmen islands was Priyanka Chaturvedi - the India Co-Chair for the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC). Follow: @SouthBlocReports

🇮🇳👨‍🌾🇦🇫 Continuing its official tour of India, a delegation from the Afghan Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, and Livestock met with officials from the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI). The talks focused on broadening bilateral ties in scientific research, academic training, and technological development within the agricultural sector. Follow: @SouthBlocReports

🇷🇺⛽ Russia’s liquid National Wealth Fund assets have crashed from 6.5% of GDP down to just 1.8%.

🇮🇳👨‍🌾🇦🇫 Continuing his official visit to India, Mawlawi Ataullah Omari, the Afghan Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation, and Livestock, met with Chirag Paswan, India's Minister of Food Processing Industries. The two leaders discussed expanding bilateral cooperation, focusing heavily on advancing agricultural product processing technologies and trade between both nations. Follow: @SouthBlocReports

🇮🇳✍️India is providing New Zealand with a $20 billion investment commitment over the next 15 years. ✍️ India provides New Zealand universities with their most costly, high-performing demographic of international students. ✍️New Zealand suffers from domestic labor shortages in high-tech, medical and specialized industrial fields. India is stepping in to fill those critical gaps under highly regulations not illegally. 🇳🇿✍️India is giving duty-free access or massive tariff reductions to New Zealand's primary industries—including wood/timber, wool, sheep meat, and raw hides. Even heavily protected items like Mānuka honey (tariffs dropping from 66% down to 16.5%), apples, and kiwifruit are getting special tariff quotas. This saves Kiwi exporters an estimated NZ$43 million to $62 million annually in pure tariff costs. 🇮🇳✍️ India has slashed or entirely removed tariffs on 70.03% of its product lines, covering about 95% of New Zealand's total export value. Follow: @SouthBlocReports 3/3

🇳🇿✍️The Post's Claim: Christians are routinely targeted, raped and purged with zero state intervention or law and order under Modi. 🇮🇳 India is a massive, multi religious democracy with over 30 million Christians who hold high ranking positions across the judiciary, military and corporate sectors. Local law and order is a state level subject under India's constitution, not a direct federal directive from the Prime Minister's office. 🇳🇿✍️ The Post's Claim: India's human rights abuses are "off the charts" with child brides and child labor. 🇮🇳 The Reality: The same Modi government has passed some of the strictest legal frameworks to combat these issues. This includes the Child Labour Amendment Act banning employment of children under 14 and active legislative pushes to raise the legal marriage age for women to 21 to completely eradicate child marriage. 2/3

🇳🇿 Let's Get Some Facts Straight! 🇳🇿✍️The Post's Claim: Trump called Modi a "killer" as a warning about human rights abuses. 🇮🇳 The Reality: This is a basic misinterpretation of American slang. During the G7 Summit, Trump repeatedly called Modi a "total killer" and "beautiful," explicitly clarifying that he meant it as high praise for Modi's fierce, tough negotiating skills and political sharpness on the world stage. Trump was praising him as an effective leader, not calling him a literal murderer. 🇳🇿✍️ The Post's Claim: Modi oversaw the slaughter of hundreds in Gujarat as Chief Minister, with an official number of around 790 dead. 🇮🇳 The Reality: The 2002 Gujarat riots were a horrific tragedy. But Over the course of a decade, India's Supreme Court appointed a Special Investigation Team to investigate Modi’s alleged involvement. In 2012, the SIT cleared him of any wrongdoing due to a lack of actionable evidence. In 2022, the Supreme Court upheld and dismissed petitions against him with finality. 1/3

🇮🇳🤝🇫🇮 "New beginnings in New Delhi. I was honored to present a copy of my credentials to the Chief of Protocol, Mr. Amit Kumar. I'm truly looking forward to starting my work as Finland’s Ambassador-Designate to India." — Mikko Kivikoski Follow: @SouthBlocReports

🇮🇳🪖🇳🇿 This is a big deal. It allows the Indian Navy and the New Zealand Defence Force to reciprocally use each other’s bases, ports and airfields for refueling, restocking supplies and maintenance during approved missions. It drastically extends the reach of the Indian Navy deep into the Southern Ocean and the Southwest Pacific without needing to sail all the way back home. 🪖 A framework will be set for the two defense ministries to share intelligence, track maritime data, coordinate patrol efforts and conduct joint naval exercises. Follow: @SouthBlocReports

✍️Growth across emerging markets and developing economies is expected to decelerate to 3.8% in 2026, followed by a rebound to 4.5% in 2027. Regionally, economic expansion in the Middle East and Central Asia will likely dip to 0.7% in 2026, whereas sub-Saharan Africa's growth is forecast to hold steady at 4.3%. Data - IMF Standards Follow: @SouthBlocReports

🇮🇳✍️🇫🇷 The statue in the picture was put up by the Indian Army's Maratha Light Infantry regiment on the Line of Control. For these soldiers, Shivaji is their historical regimental icon and military inspiration, "not a political dog-whistle." 🇫🇷✍️ France 24 stripped away all military tradition and actual history just to create a cheap, divisive headline for Western and European clicks. ✍️Pointing fingers at another country's history to ignore the massive social crisis happening right outside their own windows in Paris. Follow: @SouthBlocReports

🇮🇳🪖 Dr Satyanjal Pandey, Chargé d'Affaires Designate of India to Pakistan, called on General Dhiraj Seth, COAS. ✍️ Dr. Satyanjal Pandey previously the Deputy High Commissioner to Sri Lanka is taking over as India’s Chargé d'Affaires (CdA) in Pakistan, succeeding Geetika Srivastava. 🇮🇳🇵🇰 Since ties were downgraded in August 2019, neither country has sent a full Ambassador/High Commissioner. As CdA, Pandey is the highest ranking diplomat on the ground in Islamabad, making this military-diplomatic coordination very crucial. 🇮🇳✍️Before a diplomat heads into a sensitive and downgraded post like Pakistan, they sync up with the military leadership to align political strategy with national security ground realities. Follow: @SouthBlocReports

🇺🇸 To Donald Trump : You cannot pull the fire alarm while holding the matches, Mr. President. Telling that the ceasefire is over while keeping negotiators at the table to "continue talks" isn’t masterclass diplomacy - it's just a double standard designed to appease your Western allies while reserving the right to drop bombs for domestic television ratings. 🇮🇷 To the Iranian Regime : You signed a peace framework to escape an economic collapse, only to immediately turn around and weaponize the Strait of Hormuz through shadow-proxy warfare and illegal transit fees. Begging for continued dialogue now that American strikes have decimated over 80 military targets is a tactic to buy time for a collapsing economy and a bruised military industry that simply cannot survive the total war it keeps trying to ignite. Follow: @SouthBlocReports

Just like that one Norwegian Journalist - Foreign Local Media's have found a strategy to talk against India and especially Prime Minister Modi and save their career and get the so-called recognition over Social Media's Follow: @SouthBlocReports

🇦🇺✍️ 54% of Indian born residents in Australia hold a bachelor’s degree or higher triple the Australian national average,, filling massive deficits in tech and healthcare. 🇮🇳✍️ Furthermore, India makes up 17% of Australia’s international education market. Even with Australia aggressively hiking visa fees and capping student numbers to smooth local housing anger, Australian universities are scrambling to build offshore campuses in India just to keep that vital revenue stream alive. ✍️ Australia is the one looking for a lifeline. With bilateral trade sitting at over US$32 billion, India serves as Australia's ultimate economic hedge against Chinese trade sanctions. 🇮🇳🇦🇺 Furthermore, Australia is geographically isolated and highly vulnerable in the Indo-Pacific. Through the Quad alliance, the Royal Australian Navy relies on the Indian Navy to keep trade routes open. Follow: @SouthBlocReports 2/2

🇮🇳📹 The noise you’re seeing online and on Australian TV, like the 7News clip criticizing PM Modi's decision to unscripted press conferences or protesters shouting "Go Back" - is a classic local media narrative. 🇦🇺 Because Australia is currently dealing over a massive housing and cost of living crisis, some local media outlets find it easy to target mmigration. ✍️They highlight things like Modi's press protocols or India asking for uranium to balance local demand, while completely ignoring how dependent Australia actually is on India. 🇺🇸🇦🇺✍️ Western journalism models prioritize Q&As as the ultimate test of democracy. Because Modi prefers direct broadcasts over solo press conferences, local media hyper focuses on it. ✍️But they have selective blindness - they focus on the protocol because they don't know how to handle or process the soft power of a foreign leader organically filling an entire 25,000-seat stadium with cheering diaspora members right in their own backyard. Follow: @SoutbBlocReports 1/2

🇵🇰 TTP has released an alleged video of the attack on police personnel in the Kach Mangi area of Quetta–Harnai. Follow: @SouthBlocReports

Elevating India-Panama Ties! 🇮🇳 🇵🇦 Indian Ambassador Dr. Sumit Seth met with Panama’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, H.E. Javier Martínez-Acha, presenting him with a ceremonial India-Panama flags lapel pin. The two diplomats engaged in productive discussions focused on unlocking new avenues to further strengthen and deepen the bilateral relationship between both nations. Follow: @SouthBlocReports

Strengthening Bond in Muscat! 🇮🇳 🇴🇲 ✍️EAM Jaishankar had an meeting today with Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi to review the diverse pillars of our bilateral cooperation. The agenda zeroed in on accelerating trade, boosting strategic investments, expanding connectivity, and deepening partnerships across maritime security, defense, technology, cyber defense, and AI. Follow: @SouthBlocReports