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
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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.
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!
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.
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