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"The transfer of power from West to East is gathering pace and soon will dramatically change the context for dealing with international challenges--as well as the challenges themselves . . . Major shifts of power between states, not to mention regions, occur infrequently and are rarely peaceful." (Foreign Affairs, July/August 2004.)

This is what prompted Chinese President Xi Jinping's five-day visit to Indian Prime Minister Modi in New Delhi last week, and what has taken Modi to the power corridors of Tokyo and now Washington.

Since 2004, the power shift to the East has accelerated tremendously. Foreign Affairs predicted that China's economy would overtake Japan's by 2020. It did so in early 2009, becoming the world's second-largest economy.

In April 2013, Financial Times predicted that this year China would dislodge the US as the world's largest economy, a position the US has held since 1872. Now, India boasts the world's third-largest economy, Japan the fourth, and the fifth will be the ASEAN Economic Community to be created in 2015. The Asia-Pacific region has become the world's economic center.

US imperialism and its western allies will fight to reverse this trend. They have dominated the world's economy for the last 500 years. The US rulers' avowed strategy is "to pivot or rebalance to Asia-Pacific‚" to "contain" a rising China. But, they know well that China can't be contained. They need to stop it militarily.

Japanese, Chinese, and US imperialists are aggressively courting India.

The US's main approach to India is military. It will offer further nuclear cooperation and economic aid to modernize its military, especially its navy. It hopes that, in case of war, India, the dominant naval power in the Indian Ocean, will help the US blockade the sea lanes and chokepoints through which China's energy supplies must pass. Over 70% of India's energy imports from the Middle East must travel over some of these same sea lanes. US rulers also salivate over a military alliance that could field millions of Indian soldiers against China, a historic rival.

India, however, is not so easily wooed. The Indian ruling class is divided. Some want to strengthen their ties with US imperialism. Others want closer ties with Chinese and Russian imperialists.

Modi rose to power with support from both sections. His strategy apparently is to use all these imperialists to expand India's economic and military influence. He is seeking help in modernizing India's infrastructure, a trillion-dollar project over the next 5 years, and in creating jobs for the 12 million workers who enter its labor force yearly.

The US can't meet either of those needs. It wants to open India's market for investments and exports to benefit US corporations. Modi refused US demands to sign a critical WTO trade deal that would have removed India's subsidies to agriculture. Hundreds of millions of Indian farmers would have gone bankrupt as US agribusinesses reaped the profits.

Japan and China are better positioned to meet India's particular needs.They have signed deals to invest $35 and $50 billion, respectively, in India's infrastructure. Japanese bosses, facing political obstacles in China, are looking to move production to India, which has the world's biggest workforce and one of the cheapest.

China is also eyeing this Indian workforce. Since wages are rising in China, Chinese imperialists are planning to move labor-intensive industries to India to keep their export-oriented economy competitive.

Japanese bosses are also seeking an alliance with India to confront China over territorial disputes in the East China Sea. India has territorial disputes with China in its northeastern region, which recently flared up again. But some Indian bosses are wary because an alliance with Japan would burn bridges with China and Russia.

Modi promises to increase military spending quickly to purchase and deploy a vast array of new weapons. India is the world's biggest weapons importer. Modi is also fast-tracking a law to allow 100% equity holding by foreign investors in India's defense industry, benefiting US and Japanese companies.

The world's imperialists are locked in a bitter battle to dominate and re-divide the world market created after World War II.

Japan, Germany and parts of Europe are still occupied by the US military.The aspirations of rising imperialists like Russia, China, Germany, and India are in direct conflict with US imperialists' interests.Cooperation among these bloodthirsty imperialists is temporary. Competition is permanent and makes World War III inevitable.

The message for the international working class could not be clearer.We must build the International Communist Workers Party to mobilize the masses for communism. Only an ICWP composed of masses of workers, soldiers and youth can end capitalism's cycles of war, terror, hunger, disease and famine. We encourage our readers in India and everywhere to join ICWP and spread Red Flag.

Modi's political party BJP has built the Hindu fascist movement for over 70 years.In the highly industrial state of Gujarat, Modi's party came to power in 2000.The government was extremely weak and was on the verge of losing power.The BJP staged an incident where scores of its fanatic supporters were burned to death in a train.As planned, they blamed it on the local Muslims.BJP's para-military organization RSS systematically killed 2000 Muslims; their properties, homes, and shops were burned or confiscated.Pregnant Muslim women were gang-raped, brutally tortured and burned alive.The state police force, heavily dominated by pro-Modi officials, actively aided the Hindu mobs attacking Muslim areas.

Modi’s model of attacking Muslims to gain votes was repeated all over India as the BJP, led by Modi, was elected to power in May 2014.Since then, the BJP is consolidating fascism.History books are being re-written by fascist pro-BJP historians.Marriages between Hindu and Muslim are physically attacked.Hundreds of people, mostly Muslims, were killed during the elections in May.

Modi just brought this message of Indian fascism to Madison Square Garden in New York City.He addressed a crowd of over 60,000 people of Indian origin, some of whom paid as much as $50,000 to hear his speech, which got top billing in India. As the crowd cheered wildly, the message to Obama was clear – the Indian capitalists are united and strong and will not hesitate to make deals with China also. Even more worrisome for the US bosses is the fact that a large number of key professionals of Indian origin are Modi supporters.

India has an available work force of 300 million workers that make less than a dollar a day, over 600 million workers in total. They are not putting up with the bosses’ growing fascist attacks passively. The auto workers have led many strikes throughout India. Faced with industrial workers' strikes, the bosses need fascism to divide the workers. The workers' class struggle and anti-fascist fight back is fertile ground to mobilize the masses of workers for communism.

Masses of Indian workers embraced the old communist movement, which had the wrong line of fighting for socialism, which was state capitalism. We need mobilize these masses of angry workers today for communism.

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