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Reads the 'early harvest' / sectoral track as a concession: New Delhi long resisted settling easy sectors first, fearing it freezes the western-sector dispute; the readout's softer language — delimitation 'where conditions are ripe' — favours Beijing's sequencing.

“China seeks to 'explore the advancement of delimitation negotiations in areas where conditions are ripe' — a phrasing the Modi government has now effectively conceded.”

Reads the expansion as a power play to entrench BJP dominance via a larger, more Hindi-belt-weighted house, and notes the opposition's argument that women's reservation is being used as cover for reapportionment.

“Critics call it delimitation by stealth, with women's quota as the wrapping.”

Frames the warm G7 optics against the killing of Indian mariners in a US strike during the Iran war days earlier; reports Modi raising 'loss of Indian lives' even as he pursued the trade thaw, casting the bonhomie as politically awkward.

“Days after the US killing of Indian mariners, Modi greeted Trump at the G7, raising the 'loss of Indian lives' and trade shocks from the Iran war.”