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

[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...

economictimes.indiatimes.com

India is blocking its own road to a manufacturing renaissance | White paper | Hinrich Foundation

To truly revive its industrial sectors, New Delhi has to do more to remove policy roadblocks and level the playing field for foreign and domestic investors. Download paper.

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[Bilal9]

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

Water Quality by Country 2025

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

Thanks for the link.

Despite virulent Indian propaganda, Bangladesh is literally a safer place to live and work compared to India.

Water quality matters to manufacturing - it is one of the primary health indicators for a productive manufacturing oriented country. People are the main factors in manufacturing, and if you can't keep your people healthy, then manufacturing will suffer.

Our open defecation is near zero compared to India, which has 60% plus of it. Hygiene is built into the popular culture unlike India. Every house (even those in villages) have a toilet.

Still - Bangladesh has a long way to go to achieve China's level of societal discipline, hygiene and living standards. A work in progress I guess.

In any case - I don't think I should criticize Indians for having only 25% parts localization in their Auto Industry, as ours in Bangladesh is a lot less. However one can say Indian market is eight times larger and they can easily make a case for way higher parts localization.

If Chinese can make 100% parts localization, and Indian auto market and population is as large as China's - what is setting India back so much?

Even if you export large numbers of cars from India, and if you make assembled cars from all Chinese parts, Chinese are keeping most of the high level value addition (for making said parts like electronics, ECUs, engine components and transmissions).

All India is doing is bolting things together, which requires very little skill. Like one of the Pakistani brothers said, this is useless tailoring or "Darzi business".

 

[Bilal9]

Guys - I will need to delete all out of context off-topic posts. Please do not post any further ones.

 

[Bilal9]

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

What on earth are you talking about ??

India is in 22nd place globally. Check facts please BEFORE you post.

List of countries by vehicle exports - Wikipedia

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[Krishna with Flute]

What on earth are you talking about ??

India is in 22nd place globally. Check facts please BEFORE you post.

List of countries by vehicle exports - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Do you understand the difference between manufacturing and export?

This will help.

List of countries by motor vehicle production - Wikipedia

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[Krishna with Flute]

Guys - I will need to delete all out of context off-topic posts. Please do not post any further ones.

If you can check dirty guy, all threads can run fine. This MF keep copy posting same post again and again. Hundreds of times, he keep posting Same picture. Kick this MF out if you want any quality discussion.

 

[Krishna with Flute]

Guys - I will need to delete all out of context off-topic posts. Please do not post any further ones.

Look at even export of automobile parts. Export rose by over 22%.

India's auto exports zoom 22% in Q1 on record car shipments; Maruti grabs nearly half the pie | IBEF

India’s automobile exports rose 22% YoY in Q1 FY26 to 1.46 million units, led by record passenger vehicle shipments and robust growth in two-wheelers, commercial, and three-wheeler segments.

www.ibef.org