But India is a participant in the India/Middle East/Europe Corridor proposed by Joe Biden, but which is still stuck in conception stage, due to the Middle East War. This is supposed to rival the BRI, with Joe Biden even thinking of building a railroad from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean. How did dementia Joe came up with such a bright idea is unbelievable. Talk about building castles in the air. I think all that gloating is going to die and be buried together with Joe Biden's end of days.
Even if the Middle East War de-escalates, which is unlikely, Trump would have cut it off with his USA first doctrine. Anything good done by Biden, Trump will destroy it, and anything bad that happens with Trump's policies he will blame Biden. Why would the USA be involved in a project that does not benefit the USA nor Trump himself.
The USA leaders can only con people like Modi, who in turn can only con the religious fanatics in India. After all the song and dance, all seems quiet on the Indian front regarding the corridor to Europe. For all we know, India is not going to contribute a single penny, with USA, Saudi Arabia and others footing the bill, but will be the biggest beneficiary exporting to Europe. How big is India's trade with the EU? Just about 130 billion Euros with all of Europe, compared to China's 840 billion Euros. And not all is going to go through the India/Middle East/Europe Corridor, which may just be good for bragging rights for Modi.
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This is the way the USA and India works. Lots of gloating, but nothing gets done or started or even planned for years earlier. It is the same with the mantra of manufacturing being reshored to the USA with massive job creations expected, which those tariffs are supposed to do. It is all an illusion. Putting the cart before the horse is not going to make things move forward fast enough to provide any semblance of the ability to solve the problem of empty shelves.
Before looking at the logistics of manufacturing returning to the USA, Trump has done nothing to prepare the ground first, which is to start building those factories, training the workers, sourcing for raw materials and refining logistics, and not just building them in the air and thinking this is how it works. Which is why the USA is now caught in a bind. Chinese products are being embargoed from entering the USA, while no alternatives are being provided to USA citizens. What makes it worse is the tariff issues with Canada and Mexico, which could have at least mitigated the supply problem somewhat, although not able to provide the capacity that China does anyway. The result is going to be empty shelves and shortages of everything. Panic buying is causing problems that could be delayed or mitigated with stockpiling earlier but not solving the problem in the longer term.
Other than talking about Chinese products not finding its way into retail stores, the other self-foot-shooting mistake made was the deportation of undocumented migrants, the backbone of the USA agricultural sector. These are the people doing the back-breaking jobs of planting, harvesting and bringing the products to supermarkets. Without them, food security is also becoming a big problem in the USA, which has not been well discussed in the same way as the problems associated with tariffs against China and everyone else. Going forward, with farmers going out of business, food security is going to be a problem for the USA, which is something really unexpected for a country that was a net food exporter to China and other countries for decades. Now those farmers that are left are unsure what to plant for next season that may make or break them. For them, the future looks bleak.
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