"Last week, Indian PM Narendra Modi told US President Joe Biden that India was ready to ship food to the rest of the world following supply shocks and rising prices due to the war in Ukraine." [1] (Article published on 19th April)
[1] https://twitter.com/PlatformAdam/status/1519980107217129472?...
Actions like these are not new or surprising because India’s economy is quite price sensitive and the government in response likes to micro-manage in the face of rising prices, but it does mean you’ve to take these sound bites to foreign leaders with a grain of salt. Very often these are actually intended for people at home to push the message of “see how much good we’re doing in the world?”
None of this is intended to be disparaging or specific to India, a lot of this applies to other countries as well.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/bangladesh-india-onion-idUSK...
[2] https://www.thecambridgeglobalaffair.co.uk/collaborators/wha...
Although the SII also suffered from supply chain issues like everyone else, such as a world wide shortage of 2,000 L sterile plastic bags in which to culture cells and probably bacteria like the E. Coli used in the first step of making the mRNA vaccines.
US foreign policy has been baffling since last year.
> Khan’s new narrative is that there is a foreign conspiracy to oust him from power. And it is America, Khan says, that is really behind the no-confidence motion filed by opposition lawmakers. https://theconversation.com/what-is-going-on-in-pakistan-and...
The United States can’t even get lawmakers in the unites states to cooperate. How are they getting an entire foreign legislature to cooperate?
Making Diesel fuel massively more expensive prior to a very expensive transition to electrical trucks is also making pretty much every good more expensive, everything travels by Diesel powered trucks and/or trains. Biden and company have also decided theoretical so far punishment of Russia is more important than all of the above, for example the East Coast has halved its refinery capacity in the last decade and as of late was getting a lot of distillates from Russia.