With the US effectively shutting its doors, the fear is that a cornered China will dump even more aggressively and flood other markets. India must brace for impact.
The World Bank has urged India to reconsider its position on RCEP. Worries about China’s overcapacity and India’s struggles with previous FTAs had led to its withdrawal in 2019.
PM Modi has sought to incentivise manufacturing in India through PLI schemes, but the components have come mainly from China, with Indian companies only engaged in assembling.
India has reasons to achieve pragmatic economic exchanges, as articulated in the Economic Survey—the inescapability of Chinese supply chains, the ineffectiveness of tariffs, and India’s dependence on Chinese imports for its manufacturing sector.
Over past 3 years, commerce ministry data on bilateral trade with China has hovered around $95 bn. Data from Chinese govt over last 3 fiscals shows figures steadily above $110 bn.
In his article, Zhang Jiadong, director of the Center for South Asian Studies at Fudan University, discusses India’s shift towards a ‘great power strategy’ under Modi.
Veteran investor says government’s swift actions to ease doing business in India will ensure that manufacturing remains in the country and does not shift back.
Commerce ministry data shows that in April and May, India’s exports to China declined by 31% while imports grew by 12.75%. Overall trade grew by just 2% compared to previous year.
If India hopes to implement infra projects in the neighbourhood to restrain China, it will have to create management groups to support diplomats on the ground.
When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
Refusal to accept ‘dumps’ makes poor Indians to spend much more because of reduced competition, overpriced products. To save a few inefficient businesses, govt makes all Indians suffer. It is painful to know that Mohandas Gandhi made poor Indians burn cheap Western clothes and use costlier Indian clothes. He satisfied is ego by stamping on the stomachs of poor Indians.
Refusal to accept ‘dumps’ makes poor Indians to spend much more because of reduced competition, overpriced products. To save a few inefficient businesses, govt makes all Indians suffer. It is painful to know that Mohandas Gandhi made poor Indians burn cheap Western clothes and use costlier Indian clothes. He satisfied is ego by stamping on the stomachs of poor Indians.