Explained | Why are India's imports from China rising?

While many countries, including India, have spoken of the need to reduce reliance on #China particularly in the wake of COVID-19 and disruption to supply chains, trade figures released last month showed imports have only continued to surge in 2021 , rebounding after a fall in trade in 2020 because of the pandemic.
What did India import from China in 2021? What is driving India’s imports? What are the implications for #IndiaChina relations?

Reporting | Ananth Krishnan
Voiceover & Production | K Rajashree Das

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[whiteknuckles]

When the Chinese officials go to bed, they think of the US. When Indian officials go to bed, they think of China.

[stjemmacommunications]

Supplying raw materials to the neighbour country and buying finished goods from the same. This was the same thing we did when we were under the british rule.

[sunny-brjw]

Problem in India is infrastructures are too poor, corruption, political infighting, lack of stable policies, poor education in technical-know-how, religions and cast based segregations, lack of government funds for R&D etc. Because these problems India lags far behind China in FDI which also brings in technology and manpower along with money, which subsequently spur local small and medium industries as supply chains.

[rex_schd]

Stop blaming others .matter of fact is we don't produce that worth Goods for foreign countries to buy . Top three commodities produced here are religion, gobbar and babies .which chin don't need 😘

[griamei]

Import 129billion, export 27billion dollars 😭

[JkJK-pbqm]

Indian students and professors are smart. Let me show you a case for your study. A company called Foxconn closed many of their factories in China in 2018 and moved them to India, Vietnam, USA and Mexico. But from end of 2021, Foxconn decided to move them back to China and beg China local government to provide assistance. Can anyone of you spend sometime on this case study and come back to tell us your findings. This could answer the Indian problems in industrialization.

[max-csko]

As a nationalist, i bought an Indian AC brand, it got some problem which required replacement when service centre guy come he told all interior parts are actually made in China, aab hum kare toh kare kya, bole toh bole kya😫😫

[nwWhat]

in terms of meeting objectives, India is a failed state in every aspect

[biplabdev]

Indian business houses were busy in money making by the Chinese cheap imports ; thus now created more import depending on Outside items .

[blackswan]

patels statue in Gujrat was made by a chinese firm.

[pcchin]

Was window-shopping in Little India, Singapore. Noticed that many ornaments used for religious purposes to worship Hindu gods and deities are made in China.These include decorative items for celebrating Indian feativals. Such is the dependency for goods China.

[ric]

So even if we buy local it's not local. The govt should tell industries to be local but all businesses care about is profit so no nationalism for them . Only common people should show deshbhakti . Wow the hypocrisy.

[dimple]

Fighting over Politics, religion ... not concentrating on education , health, innovation.. no change in mindset of people..

[saimbhat]

India has hundreds of problems of its own. Athough MODI government came up with "vikas" and "ache din aayege", it has eventually returned to what yogi adityanath aptly described as 80% vs 20% politics.
The vision and direction of a country are not different from the politics of country. Accountability forces the government to rectify its inefficiencies, but if you can just tell them that they have to vote for you just because you are a muslim, or a hindu, or a dalit or a yadav, you just set the bar for accountability very low

[liberatortror]

We have iities and nities but we cant make a made in India electronic device without china made chips.

[offred]

Creation of a alternate supply lines will require constant efforts for a long period of time.
Its a test match not 20 20.
Increase in Capital Expenditure is a step in right direction.

[shivaniwang]

Now we have a rise in "Made in Korea" too...

[bali]

dependent on enemy country to such an extent(100 billion dollars= 75, 66, 75, 00, 00, 000 rupees) is not good for diplomacy. PM. Modi restart your jumla, "atmanirbhar bharat" and do work actually on ground. rupee is worst currency in asia. and what we are doing, only banning aaps. ha ha ha. reduce dependency on china.

[AaryanJain]

Bcoz our economic policies are made by so called high educated economists who haven't experience of business.
"Marwari" can solve this problem 😉

[arnavrajyadavf]

One more reason is that we don't make those things which they make I was searching for some decorative items for my project and every decorative item was made in china 🇨🇳 barely I could've find any made I india whenever I go to any bakery shop most of the items are made in china what wasn't made in china was some breads namkeens and cakes and many other items.