Make in India is a misnomer. Nothing is Made in India

 India can continue to gloat about wanting to overtake China as the factory of the world, about its manufacturing prowess, about being the 5th or 6th biggest GDP country. What India really is, is anything but an assembler of goods and products by importing parts from outside India. Nothing is Made in India, oops, other than cow dung. Only the very dense and gullible will believe in the great success stories of India and wanting to take a ride in the Indian growth engine and wanting to make more rupees.

The mobile phones for Apple, Samsung and Xiaomi are all assembled in India, not Made in India. Get it? Assembling parts is NOT manufacturing. The Suzuki March is assembled in India except a few three wheelers made by Tata, the supposedly industrial giant of India that literally makes nothing of its own. India is not a manufacturing hub but an assembly hub. India depends heavily on China and foreign sources for its parts, components, aggregate, precursors and ingredients for all it goods and products. Without the inputs from China, all Indian factories can close shop, unable to make anything. Apple India can also close shop.

Maybe India is right to use the phrase 'Make in India' and not 'Made in India'. A proper phrase should be 'Assembled in India' or Packaged in India. India can continue to spin its beautiful stories to silly countries to invite them to throw their good money in exchange for rupees. The smarter countries have tasted the real India and are avoiding India like a plague. But the fools will keep charging in where angels fear to thread.

India will take many donkey years to be a real manufacturer of goods and products. Where are the Indian made EVs, automobiles and buses, drones, mobile phones, home electronics, laptops, fighter aircraft with engines Made in India, ocean going ships, VLCCs, tunnelling machines, heavy cranes, agricultural machinery, robots, chips etc etc. Oh, the Indian gods are all Made in China.

Until India starts to design and build its own products, India can just crow and crow to the gullible and low thinking to believe in India's growth engine to become a part of the growing world economy. Do not underestimate the power of stupidity and gold plated talents. 

India and Japan still quarrelling who is responsible for the delay in its high speed train project

Now, 'one anonay' is quarrelling with another 'anonay' over high-speed rail construction. Japan is blaming India for the slow progress of its high-speed rail construction over land acquisition, relocation of people and lack of commitment among other problems. Delay means cost escalation and that may result in payment issues for Japan.

India had proposed wanting HSR since talking about it in 1980, with the go-ahead in 2014, after more than thirty years of deliberation. More than 20 years passed and India's HSR is expected only to be functional by 2027 or 2028. Not the whole line, but only certain sections. In China, a decade would have seen tens of thousands of miles of HSR being constructed.

China was very fortunate to have failed to do the HSR construction for India, which was given to Japan. China realized early the problems regarding land acquisition in India that takes decades to resolve. It was a blessing in disguise for China not to be doing the construction and getting mired in problems that Japan is facing.

If I may say it out loud, even if China had been given the construction, it will face problems of payment when completed. India will come up with attempts to cut construction cost or delaying payments. That is the Indian modus operandi. Moreover, the other fear for China is that India may try to claim compensation for minor issues that may arise, tarnishing the image of Chinese technology.

Therefore, it is in China's best interest to avoid anything to do with India, be it investing or doing infrastructure development. Nothing good will come out of them.


Anonymous

American terrorists have targeted China as a nuke target many times

China must be next on the line. China had been on the agenda of the USA to be nuked many times before. That was during the Korean War and Vietnam War.

North Vietnam had also been targeted during the Indochina War against the French. The USA had tried to coerce the French to use nukes against the North Vietnamese when the war was turning against the French, then making a desperate last stand at Diem Bien Phu. The French did not do so as they realized the consequences of the magnitude of their own casualties at Diem Bien Phu. Ho Chi Minh was instrumental in defeating and throwing out the French from Indochina. The rest is history.

But Ho Chi Minh's feat has also been shown to be possible by the Taliban in chasing out the USA from Afghanistan. This was a bigger feat of taking out the superpower of the world and is not just a mean victory, despite the length of conducting a war of attrition against the USA. The USA fights short wars with distinction resulting from its aerial power and weapons, but in a war of attrition it gets bog down and moral support collapses.

Now, let us wait to see another big historical moment when the Iranians chase the USA out of the Middle East. Do not say impossible. Man proposes and God disposes. Iran is on the right side of history and God can see the injustice inflicted upon the Iranians.


Anonymous