8/13/2023

India bans Chinese imports, to use Make In India products

 I just came across this report that India is banning the import of laptop computers from China, to force its citizens to use Indian made ones. India accounts for just 3% of China's export of laptop computers and the Chinese are not duly worried nor protesting. The only people duly concerned are the Indian students and general public themselves, who feared having to pay more now for Indian laptops.

The other obvious outcome of how really stupid this decision is, stems from the fact that Indian laptop computer makers/assemblers still have to source most of their parts from China, as India does not have that level of supply chain availability compared to China. China could just increase the prices of those parts to compensate for the 3% sales disruption by India. This is no different from Apple, still having to depend on China for iPhone parts for its assembly plant in India. That will add to the cost of those iphones produced in India. Same with those laptops. Who is going to pay for it? Just like Trump increasing tariffs on Chinese products. Who is paying for it?

China's position today is not the result of depending on sweet talk and false hopes with help from heaven, but took decades of building up from scratch. That China thinks long term is no idle boast. What China wants to do in ten or twenty years time, they start planning today, acquiring the necessary resources, set up the facilities and stick to its guns, no matter what others think. Solar panels was one example that the USA and the West had generated tons of negative reports, demonising and laughing at the foolishness of the Chinese bet, but today they are not laughing anymore. China is today the biggest manufacturer of solar panels. Same with EVs that Trump was demonising just a couple of years ago. Now, who is betting against it? Apart from Tesla, every vehicle maker is playing catchup.

Some Indian analyst are telling the Indian Government - learn from China. But of course that call is definitely against the Indian mentality and falling on deaf ears. India wants to follow the USA, using the same modus operandi of stifling foreign investments and preventing them from growing and be successful in India. So be it! 

Anonymous

3 comments:

Virgo49 said...

Good morning All

There is a Chinese Saying: "Half tank of shits wanted to act as know all"

These Indians are just hot air braggarts lah.

They like the Whites, see their Features mostly alike except their colour survived by conning the Rest of the Daft World.

Endowed with the gift of gabs that can even cajoled the birds on the trees to their cooking pots.

They must acted to be superior to others so as NOT to lose their water faces.

Anonymous said...

After Indians kena snubbed by China's drone maker DJI ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ypdASk3rsk&t=442s ), China imposed export curbs on dual-use drones ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb9jKCvBGOo ).

India then imposed ban on buying Chinese drone parts to save face.

Even if India wanna buy Chinese drone parts, China also won't sell, that's the reality!

Anonymous said...

If they did not have Chinese drones, why is there a need to buy Chinese drone parts? Not all drone parts are standard that can be used on other drones. Die die also want to save face. Now Firstpost and Wion will brag that he Indians banned Chinese Drones and DJI is going to collapse.