There is no way Indians can live without most of the 8,000-odd stuff the country imports from China. So it's just better to wait for the tensions at LAC to simmer down.
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One thing is sure no matter how good english one can write or speak that doesn’t mean that one has a mature mind to understand the problem. I realized this after reading comments. We don’t wanna discuss we don’t want to see truth the reality, it’s just like a 4 year naughty kid who, if once put a finger on something then it doesn’t matter how or why but you have to provide that to him.
I read all the comments above and was laughing out loudly. A lot of nationalistic jingoism and chest beating …………..accusing the author of this article of being paid and unpatriotic.
I have seen articles of this nature on other reputed news platforms – like The Hindu : which has an equally good reputation as much as The Print does.
Readers have to be sensitive to the fact that the author is pointing to the fact that India has a lot of ground work to do to get out of ‘doing business with China’ . This is what has to happen …………….but won’t happen overnight. The government has to have a medium to long term road map of building out the same commodities and industries : for which we are dependent on China. A lot of governments in the world have realized this and are coming up with such strategies to disengage economically from China.
Perhaps its time for these governments to come together to have some common strategies to counter China economically. The trade deficit that India has with China is huge and so is the case for many other countries in the world. If this has to go – then the Atmanirbharta has to have a solid groundwork and road map that the government should set and have rolling.
Yeah Sure. No Indian ever wore or bought underwear before the Chinese invented them agreed to export to India. Don’t forget that Malnutrition and infant mortality decreased courtesy Chinese Green Tea!!! Chinese bots writing for the print. LOL.
The article gives a clear picture of how paid media can play around people mind and can push for their agenda….but the writter forgot that Indians are good at analysing and we have freedom of thought and expression ?.. we know what’s best for us and our country we can build our nation without China’s garbage.
Idea of boycott is to reduce dependance on Chinese products in critical areas like base ingredients for medicine manufacturing, power & telecom equipment etc. These are areas where India used to produce stuff locally ( or available elsewhere) but were not able to stand up to the Chinese for various reasons including state subsidy on the Chinese side. Electronics is one area where we may be hit but it is not insurmountable.
China is a low cost assembler of items in most areas. The US, Japan, S Korea, Europe hold the technology rights, which implies the technology is available elsewhere.
Are you aware that Uniqlo is a Japanese company and that Miniso pretends to be a Japanese company. The Chinese developed their own capabilities by putting obstacles to other countries. Are you aware that Google, Facebook are not allowed in China and because of this they have developed home grown applications.
Stuff like plastic items and clothing is something which is being produced locally. I for one and many others are not dependent on Chinese underwear!!! as the author is probably..
Employee in a chinese owned company, with 1 or 2 yrs experience drawing 70-80k p.m? Seriously what are you smoking. World over the Chinese employers are considered exploiters.
So please don’t let ur anti-Modi bias show up. Try to look at the bigger picture.
Would expect more mature and reasoned article from Print. You are slipping in your standards!!!
The writer should have dwelled on what China will lose in terms of business with India.China will suffer a great loss if India starts boycotting their goods one after another.Indians have done it once with British during independence boycott movement. They should know that boycott is in Indiana blood. Chinese are taking a very big risk now.
Somehow I Allways feel India is the only country that lacks unity. The main culprit is human greed.
– Look at how US corporation sold its country to China with American corporation of greed…They let china steal their technologies knowingly or unknowingly.
– The same way, yesterday one article from Chetan Bhagat that we should give China a chance to save their face, The author of this article too for the sake of money keeps publishing article like this as if China throws money and food to us for our survival. We don’t need their pants, electronics for survival.
There is a way of doing things…. we want to reduce reliance on Chinese goods. Apps is a great start. Then should be easy import substitutes .. for example underwear , toothpaste Etc … things can not go back to normal. I am surprised at the defeatist attitude of the writer…. rolling over and surrendering is NOT AN OPTION
In life before 2005, almost everything in daily consumption was made in India. Toothpaste, brush, underpants, pens pencils,tomato mango pulps , green tea etc etc etc. Even Nokia mobiles too. Believe me .. quality and product satisfaction was way better than todays times.
We have only destroyed our jobs and gone poorer by importing what we were already producing.
We shall we can and we must produce our essentials.
Ofcourse there is a way…..and it depends on the will of the people. This is exactly what China does. It hollows out the economy of a country and the minds of the people in it. The author and her thought “we can’t do without China” is a stark example of a hollowed out mind.
What the hell?
Who is this writer??
How much she got for this piece??
India can not live without these 8000 imports from China, Yes, this is whst she wrote??
Like before these 8000 imports, Indians were dying in droves for the want of these 8000 items??
Come on. Do not be ridiculous.
And stop passing of sponsored writing as news or analysis.
This defeatist attitude. Why we do not have 4 wheelers or 2 wheelers from China. Why we do not have bath fittings, floor tiles, wood works from China. Why A/C, Fridges or other white goods China is not market domination. Ultimately countries do not compete but companies compete. In the industry segments where companies have decided to invest in product improvement and innovation we are competing. But other segments we are loosing out.
With little nudge and incentive from Government and our companies can definitely compete. We only need to have focused approach.
This only hullabullao .Raising emotions without best facilities to soldiers at front can,understand that these are just mere slogans . Questions intelligence and leadership failure led to death of 20 odd jawans.
On a larger picture, I doubt the vocalists for the Boycott movement expect a 100% Boycott or even a big significant one that could actually put pressure. The idea is to appease the Indians to shift to alternatives, if possible to reduce this imprint that runs deep into the Indian society and has been limiting the Indian politics and remains a source of mockery to a “self-reliant India” dream. The goal is to motivate the citizens to educate themselves on various companies that either have Chinese origins or manufacture their goods in China. Boycott China dream is a pipedream in a short term, but a significant reducation in dependence on a viable neighbour that unethically enjoys too much of a leverage in Indian trade through questionable practices over a long term is possible.
One thing is sure no matter how good english one can write or speak that doesn’t mean that one has a mature mind to understand the problem. I realized this after reading comments. We don’t wanna discuss we don’t want to see truth the reality, it’s just like a 4 year naughty kid who, if once put a finger on something then it doesn’t matter how or why but you have to provide that to him.
Modi himself said he has a Plus One relationship with China. It means China has power over him.
I read all the comments above and was laughing out loudly. A lot of nationalistic jingoism and chest beating …………..accusing the author of this article of being paid and unpatriotic.
I have seen articles of this nature on other reputed news platforms – like The Hindu : which has an equally good reputation as much as The Print does.
Readers have to be sensitive to the fact that the author is pointing to the fact that India has a lot of ground work to do to get out of ‘doing business with China’ . This is what has to happen …………….but won’t happen overnight. The government has to have a medium to long term road map of building out the same commodities and industries : for which we are dependent on China. A lot of governments in the world have realized this and are coming up with such strategies to disengage economically from China.
Perhaps its time for these governments to come together to have some common strategies to counter China economically. The trade deficit that India has with China is huge and so is the case for many other countries in the world. If this has to go – then the Atmanirbharta has to have a solid groundwork and road map that the government should set and have rolling.
Yeah Sure. No Indian ever wore or bought underwear before the Chinese invented them agreed to export to India. Don’t forget that Malnutrition and infant mortality decreased courtesy Chinese Green Tea!!! Chinese bots writing for the print. LOL.
Challenge Accepted!
The article gives a clear picture of how paid media can play around people mind and can push for their agenda….but the writter forgot that Indians are good at analysing and we have freedom of thought and expression ?.. we know what’s best for us and our country we can build our nation without China’s garbage.
Idea of boycott is to reduce dependance on Chinese products in critical areas like base ingredients for medicine manufacturing, power & telecom equipment etc. These are areas where India used to produce stuff locally ( or available elsewhere) but were not able to stand up to the Chinese for various reasons including state subsidy on the Chinese side. Electronics is one area where we may be hit but it is not insurmountable.
China is a low cost assembler of items in most areas. The US, Japan, S Korea, Europe hold the technology rights, which implies the technology is available elsewhere.
Are you aware that Uniqlo is a Japanese company and that Miniso pretends to be a Japanese company. The Chinese developed their own capabilities by putting obstacles to other countries. Are you aware that Google, Facebook are not allowed in China and because of this they have developed home grown applications.
Stuff like plastic items and clothing is something which is being produced locally. I for one and many others are not dependent on Chinese underwear!!! as the author is probably..
Employee in a chinese owned company, with 1 or 2 yrs experience drawing 70-80k p.m? Seriously what are you smoking. World over the Chinese employers are considered exploiters.
So please don’t let ur anti-Modi bias show up. Try to look at the bigger picture.
Would expect more mature and reasoned article from Print. You are slipping in your standards!!!
The writer should have dwelled on what China will lose in terms of business with India.China will suffer a great loss if India starts boycotting their goods one after another.Indians have done it once with British during independence boycott movement. They should know that boycott is in Indiana blood. Chinese are taking a very big risk now.
Somehow I Allways feel India is the only country that lacks unity. The main culprit is human greed.
– Look at how US corporation sold its country to China with American corporation of greed…They let china steal their technologies knowingly or unknowingly.
– The same way, yesterday one article from Chetan Bhagat that we should give China a chance to save their face, The author of this article too for the sake of money keeps publishing article like this as if China throws money and food to us for our survival. We don’t need their pants, electronics for survival.
India is a sinking ship .ha ha ha
There is a way of doing things…. we want to reduce reliance on Chinese goods. Apps is a great start. Then should be easy import substitutes .. for example underwear , toothpaste Etc … things can not go back to normal. I am surprised at the defeatist attitude of the writer…. rolling over and surrendering is NOT AN OPTION
In life before 2005, almost everything in daily consumption was made in India. Toothpaste, brush, underpants, pens pencils,tomato mango pulps , green tea etc etc etc. Even Nokia mobiles too. Believe me .. quality and product satisfaction was way better than todays times.
We have only destroyed our jobs and gone poorer by importing what we were already producing.
We shall we can and we must produce our essentials.
This is Chinese propaganda published by The Print (which needs Chinese $$$ to survive).
Ofcourse there is a way…..and it depends on the will of the people. This is exactly what China does. It hollows out the economy of a country and the minds of the people in it. The author and her thought “we can’t do without China” is a stark example of a hollowed out mind.
I fail to understand the aim of this article, Regina.
You should know that Indians can live without drinking Green tea and not wearing any underwear
So chill…if shove comes to push we SHOULD be capable of pushing!!!!
What the hell?
Who is this writer??
How much she got for this piece??
India can not live without these 8000 imports from China, Yes, this is whst she wrote??
Like before these 8000 imports, Indians were dying in droves for the want of these 8000 items??
Come on. Do not be ridiculous.
And stop passing of sponsored writing as news or analysis.
I was wondering about the same! Great article.
This defeatist attitude. Why we do not have 4 wheelers or 2 wheelers from China. Why we do not have bath fittings, floor tiles, wood works from China. Why A/C, Fridges or other white goods China is not market domination. Ultimately countries do not compete but companies compete. In the industry segments where companies have decided to invest in product improvement and innovation we are competing. But other segments we are loosing out.
With little nudge and incentive from Government and our companies can definitely compete. We only need to have focused approach.
So stupid, make India self reliant, not to depend on chine out of sheer laziness, an d lost opportunities for entrepreneurs
This only hullabullao .Raising emotions without best facilities to soldiers at front can,understand that these are just mere slogans . Questions intelligence and leadership failure led to death of 20 odd jawans.
On a larger picture, I doubt the vocalists for the Boycott movement expect a 100% Boycott or even a big significant one that could actually put pressure. The idea is to appease the Indians to shift to alternatives, if possible to reduce this imprint that runs deep into the Indian society and has been limiting the Indian politics and remains a source of mockery to a “self-reliant India” dream. The goal is to motivate the citizens to educate themselves on various companies that either have Chinese origins or manufacture their goods in China. Boycott China dream is a pipedream in a short term, but a significant reducation in dependence on a viable neighbour that unethically enjoys too much of a leverage in Indian trade through questionable practices over a long term is possible.
How much money you have taken to write these stuff from Chinese govt. or from the people on his behalf.