South Asia India's rise as a manufacturing powerhouse making China nervous as geoeconomic advantage shifts

[Krishna with Flute]

I really don't know what Indians make. After all, India's exports are only low value-added raw materials and agricultural products.

oh Recently, China has restricted the export of specialty fertilizers to India. It may have some impact on Indian agriculture.

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China is top Importer of India's cheapest rice. Those who can not produce their food grains lectures others. Even India's chepest rice is batter than Chinese anything including their plastic rice and gutter oil. Chinese will have something decent to eat.

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/china-takes-over-as-biggest-importer-of-indian-broken-rice-7968116/

 

[Krishna with Flute]

We are now forth largest car manufacturer. We shall take of Japan followed by US in few years.

 

[Krishna with Flute]

In other news - the sun rose in the West today....

Jokes aside, little of iPhone parts (except maybe the phone casing by Tata) are made in India, Indian iPhones are all made with parts imported from China (I'd say more than 90%).

These are idle boasts by Hindutva Indians, as usual.

Please prove me wrong if you can.

May be. While being a spokesperson of China, you do not know that you are reducing China from a manufacturer to part supplier. Which one is batter? TO manufacture finish goods or supplier of component?

 

[Jiangnan]

May be. While being a spokesperson of China, you do not know that you are reducing China from a manufacturer to part supplier. Which one is batter? TO manufacture finish goods or supplier of component?

oh Are you saying that India doesn't need Chinese technology? Yes or no?

 

[Jiangnan]

India does not have tap water

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[Jiangnan]

Don't drink Indian water! It is entirely composed of Escherichia coli!

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[Jiangnan]

Don't drink Indian water! Indian water is garbage water! It is entirely composed of Escherichia coli!

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@Bilal9 @Saif bro. I'm glad to see Bangladesh win against India again

 

[Bilal9]

May be. While being a spokesperson of China, you do not know that you are reducing China from a manufacturer to part supplier. Which one is batter? TO manufacture finish goods or supplier of component?

Let's focus on India's parts localization effort for making cars, which is an abject failure. I don't shill for China, but the facts speak for themselves, and most of those come from Indian media itself.

As of 2025, India's automotive industry aims to achieve around 25% parts localization in vehicle assembly, although the localization of electronic components remains a significant challenge due to reliance on imports amid the drive toward EV cars with heavily embedded electronic components, both of which spell trouble for parts localization in India.

The Indian government is actively promoting domestic parts production (instead of Chinese parts imports) to reduce this dependency by its "Make in India" subsidies, a program which has also become an abject failure. You can't just throw money at a problem and not provide deeper policy support.

The "Make in India" initiative is widely considered a qualified failure by Indian policy thinktanks, as it has not met its ambitious goals, such as increasing the manufacturing sector's contribution to GDP or creating the promised number of jobs. Instead, the share of manufacturing in GDP has decreased, and job creation has fallen short of expectations.

As Modi makes ambitious pitch in the US, Make in India is qualified failure 10 years on

Generous business incentives, foreign investment do not solve the fundamental problems of a huge skills deficit and the complexity of doing business in India.

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Govt failed to realise 'Make in India' due to 'complete inaction', says Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge

Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge criticised the Indian government's 'Make in India' initiative, accusing it of failing to create jobs and utilise funds effectively. He questioned the decline in manufacturing's contribution to GDP, the decrease in manufacturing growth, and the under-utilization...

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