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

Human civilisation can benefit from AI but seeking to limit its use

Is this a contraction, that something can be so good but being made to look so bad? Something that can change the world and the lives of human beans for the better but being branded as a threat, dangerous?

The motivations to ban or limit AI are varied to the extend that some sounded so naive and silly. AI is nothing more than a tool that human developed after investing huge resources and intellect to make the world better. Now some quarters are yakking, AI is bad, must control AI, must limit its use and some may even want to ban it.

For the do gooders with halos over their heads, some shallow thinking, children must be kept away from AI. A few children may be negatively influenced by AI to do bad things, to become self radicalised terrorists, posing a great danger to society. None wants to contemplate on the dangers of AI in the hands of terrorist states, state terrorism, and how they can wipe out civilisation or annihilate civilisation because some savages have the power to do so. Oops, state terrorism and wiping out civilisation are normal. Children terrorism is the real threat. Who is going to tell the American terrorists to abide by their stupid rules?

AI must not end up like nuclear weapons, becoming the monopoly of the powerful to threaten, coerce, blackmail the weak, to be use as a weapon of mass destruction. Anyone pondering or wondering why Iran is called a terrorist state, the Iranians are very bad people and the American terrorists 'called the good people' with all the nuclear weapons to wipe out the Iranian people? Non issue. The strong and mighty like the evil Empire has the monopoly and right to kill and kill and kill? To acquire all the WMDs and most advanced AI to kill and coerce the weak and poor?

Would AI also become another weapon of the evil Empire to control the world, to threaten the world, to bully the world? This is what the imbeciles are calling for. Limit AI, restrict AI in the poor little countries. But no one dares to say anything about restricting AI from the American terrorists that can do more harm to the whole world with unrestricted AI. The Americans are terrorising the world with nuclear weapons. Give the American full control and power over AI will end up in the same state. And the Americans are not hiding their intention. AI and expensive centres must be the monopoly of the Americans to do havoc to the rest of the world. The rest of the world must not have advanced AI. And now the rest of the world are volunteering to castrate themselves from AI and let the Americans have all the AI they want to rule and bully the world.

The calls for limiting and restricting AI are for the silly small countries to tie their own hands and legs and be kicked around by the Americans that would not be bound by any silly rules and regulations from the imbeciles. All the rules in the world, rules based order, are for the fools to live by and obey. The American savages will be above these rules and can do whatever they want. The world's number one and number terrorists just spoke at the UN about annihilation of Iranians and the genocide in Gaza and the Middle East with impunity and with arrogance. The imbeciles say nothing, some even clapped for them.

The American terrrorists' concern for the spread of AI, like the spread of nuclear weapons, is that their rivals and enemies will have better AI than them, not about protecting children from access to AI.

The Americans are the masters in using AI to set world records in sports, especially in swimming and athletics. Athletics suddenly won with record times they had never come close to and then never to come near such times again. AI is also artificial insemination. Did the Japanese girls won the 100m hurdles in the Asian Games so easily and with surprising great times also used AI?

PS. Trump said the world needs a smart president with high IQ like him to control AI. The rest that are calling for control and limiting AI are conspiracy theorists, treasonist, traitors and leakers.

The INDIA SHOCK: exporting Indian workers to the world

The INDIA SHOCK: exporting Indian workers to the world

India has its own version of the “China shock”. Instead of exporting high volumes of competitive manufacturing goods across the globe, the world’s most populous nation sends millions of workers abroad. India churns out roughly 5 million graduates each year and around 1million people enter its workforce every month. But India’s economy cannot produce enough suitable jobs to employ its expanding labour supply. Youth underemployment is rife, despite the country’s sceptical rapid growth rate.

The country is the world’s largest source of international migrants, with an estimated 18.5 million living abroad in 2024. The Anglosphere and United Arab Emirates are common destinations. Indeed, over the past decade, Indian nationals have accounted for the vast majority of approved H-1B petitions, a US visa for global professionals in selected fields. In the UK, about 1 million Indian nationals arrived between 2021 and 2025. Meanwhile, last year Indians overtook the English for the first time to become Australia’s largest overseas-born group.

Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the country has positioned its large labour force — which includes the world’s second-biggest pool of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (Stem) graduates — as an answer to skills shortages and ageing demographics abroad. S Jaishankar, India’s foreign minister, recently said the country had signed labour-mobility pacts with 26 countries, with more in the pipeline. Such arrangements have been a central pillar of India’s bilateral trade negotiations. An overseas mobility bill also aims to help Indians access the “global workplace”.

Crucially, overseas markets provide a release valve. The export of workers enables the Indian government to ease socio-economic strains at home, where frustration abounds over the lack of good job opportunities. Many Indians end up settling abroad. And India is experiencing a worldwide backlash against its human exports.

Scepticism about immigration continues to animate politics in the rich world. And the recent surge in arrivals from the subcontinent, who join historical waves of emigration, puts a growing spotlight on people of Indian origin abroad. And Indian nationals’ family members and less-skilled individuals have emigrated too, in some cases by abusing the rules. This all provides fuel for anti-immigrant narratives.

Indeed, anti-Indian sentiment is on the rise. Just this month, the Republican nominee for a seat on Texas’s oil and gas regulator sparked allegations of racism for a social media post aimed at South Asian students. Last year, Indian-origin migrants were explicitly targeted in “March for Australia” rallies. Anti-South Asian slurs in online spaces in the US have also surged. The backlash could hinder the Modi government’s strategy. India cannot rely on remittances and its diaspora alone. The worker-export model reflects a deeper challenge facing New Delhi, which must strive to create enough productive work to better harness the country’s demographic dividend. India lacks jobs and it cannot export its way out of domestic problems.


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