Elon Musk’s tech empire is challenging India’s sovereignty

Elon Musk helped weaken traditional instruments of American soft power and replaced them with his ego-fuelled ventures. Now, armed with Starlink, X and a Silicon Valley culture that treats regulation as an obstacle, he is discovering that India does not necessarily share his vision of the future. Elon Musk is discovering that India is not quite as willing to accommodate his ambitions as he imagined. Frustrated by delays to Starlink’s commercial launch, the billionaire has used his own social media platform to accuse powerful Indian business interests of obstructing competition. What Musk presents as a struggle between innovation and vested…