Now that the gloves are off all favours are off the table
So maybe there were favours then.
That is 'geopolitics'
Linking this to global geopolitics is stretching it.
It would be 'stretching it' if this was an isolated event.But it isn't.
I disagree with you because you think the core issue here is safety.If the core issue really was safety, then the downgrade should have happened much much earlier.It looks to me like it is the US that has been blind to the faults of Jor Bag all these years.
Here is an extract from the link I provided earlier.It has an uncanny similarity to aviation.
You cannot equate the Indian regulator with the US one. We are still evolving and it will take us at least 10 years to reach that level. We do not have resources and infrastructure equivalent to those of US FDA. We have a total staff of 650, compared with US FDA's 13,000