France riots: How racial prejudice is inherent to systems and schemes of West

There is an air of outright dejection and frustration, as well as volatility, ready to burst at sudden provocation, not all of which emanates from law enforcement per se It is all about a police officer on duty shooting dead an Algerian descendant youth named Nahel for jumping the traffic and disobeying orders to stop. It dates back to what the Sri Lankan state wants the world to accept as the nation’s own ‘war on terrorism’, the longest and hardest one at least until the US-centric 9/11 aerial terrorism of Osama bin-Laden captured global imagination and wrath. Not doing enough At a Buddhist religious ceremony in Sri Lanka more recently, Chinese ambassador Qi Zhenhong asked the nation to ‘stand up for its rights, to gain respect, and end bullying’. No one needs to read too much into such homilies of an non-western, anti-western kind, especially when coming from China, which is otherwise seen as a ‘regional bully’ by most nations, including India. Yet, on issues such as those haunting nations like Sri Lanka, at the UNHRC and elsewhere, independent of each other, India and China, for instance, may have ‘common interests’ to take on the West, however mildly or strongly as it befits their overall position, bilateral and multilateral relations.