Interesting article, the result of the the first time in 50 years that press were allowed to sit in for all session's of the Trilateral Commission's Asia group.
China's rise is evidently making East-Asian elites increasing weary of obeying U.S demands for total obedience to their directives. On the other hand, the magnitude of China's gains over recent decades has also drawn India closer into America's orbit, due to a fear of being outmatched as a power in Asia.
edit: link not working, this one should https://archive.ph/NzsZ0
Yes, when the Modi govt tried to “modernise” agriculture by giving more control and power to the mega-corporations and taking it away from the farmers. The farmers resisted and the media portrayed them as “extremists” and “terrorists” and saying the people protesting were just the minority. But eventually the farmers succeeded and the plan failed. I haven’t followed it since to see if the govt. tried to get something similar passed again under the table. It’s, I think, the only high-profile defeat that Modi has faced.