Guardian is not 'The west'. It's a News organization. It is neither a representative or an official mouthpiece for 'The west'. Guardian is not finger pointing as well, It's doing it's job, which is reporting the events. And the criticism is absolutely valid. This deflection and tangential remarks are not suitable for Hacker News.

Since when did Newspapers become independent?

It is one of several patterns I have just noticed in the past couple of weeks

US made a human rights comment.

Germany media made a big deal about the oil purchase, trying to deflect attention from their own increased purchase.

And as a former colonialist I couldn't expect the UK not come up with it's own act.

Collective guilt works both ways especially among democratic countries of which India is thr largest and US the oldest.

How is that relevant to the topic at hand?

Please don't resort to whataboutery and lower the standard of discussion.

It shows the duplicity and double standards

When the west starts point fingers at India for - free speech, human rights, co2 emissions or for that matter oil imports from Russia.

There is still a colonial mindset at the institutional level where they believe they can just pass arbitrary unfounded judgments and the world has no choice but to accept it.

But clearly the data exposes their duplicity.

The Guardian points fingers at the West on the issues of free speech, human rights, CO2 emissions and oil imports from Russia (and pretty much every other oil exporting nation) on a daily basis. The idea that it reserves its criticism for places like India is comically ignorant of the Guardian's editorial stance...

(And the prevailing institutional bias at the highest level of government is the other way: it's "we'd probably make more of a fuss about these incidents and allegations if Modi didn't seem such a pro-business, pro-West kinda guy". The UK government's latest obsession is a trade deal with India, after all)

Your own arbitrary unfounded judgements of other countries are all over this thread. Sorry, your culture isn't the only one that gets to have an opinion on others.

Or the more logical explanation is that you're maybe a bit oversensitive to criticism just like the Indian government which proves the point made by The Guardian in exposing these abuses and holding people in power accountable for their policies.

> or for that matter oil imports from Russia

India has been given a free pass on its oil and materiel imports from Russia. It's something China complains about quite a bit.

But US and Europe has increased it's purchase by 8 and 15 percent respectively

> US and Europe has increased it's purchase by 8 and 15 percent respectively

The U.S. has increased its purchase of Russian oil? That’s odd given we banned it…

Oh my. Chinese source citing a “Russian Security Council Deputy Secretary” who “told Russian media” a thing. Incompetent trolls might press your claim better.

(For bystanders, the claim is crap [1].)

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/9/us-bans-russian-oil-...

> The Global Times (simplified Chinese: 环球时报; traditional Chinese: 環球時報; pinyin: Huánqiú Shíbào) is a daily tabloid newspaper under the auspices of the Chinese Communist Party's flagship newspaper, the People's Daily, commenting on international issues from a nationalistic perspective.[1][2][3][4] The publication has been labelled as "China's Fox News" by some scholars and writers for its propagandistic slant and the monetization of nationalism.

When the Wikipedia entry for your source starts with that, you might want to check the credibility of it before treating it as gospel.