It won’t matter how successful Starlink is in India, unless Donald Trump finds markets for agricultural exports in India and elsewhere, or creates millions of new jobs in manufacturing. Till then, the tariff pressure on India will continue.
To demonstrate their alignment with US geopolitical and economic interests many countries are hoping to leverage business deals with Starlink’s satellite Internet service. They now include India where two of its biggest Internet providers have have inked a deal with Elon Musk’s Starlink.
The synergy between Musk’s tech and US geopolitical interests was most recently evident in Ukraine, when Musk’s veiled threat on his social media platform to turn off Starlink, which he described as the “backbone of the Ukrainian army”, may have nudged Ukraine to mend fences with the US.
Remarking on the unfairness of Musk using his tech clout to disrupt Ukraine’s defence, Polish foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski pointed out, “Starlinks for Ukraine are paid for by the Polish foreign Ministry at the cost of about $50 million per year. …The ethics of threatening the victim of aggression apart, if SpaceX proves to be an unreliable provider we will be forced to look for other suppliers.”…
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