Cloud Over India-China Trade Ties: Can India Afford To Boycott China ? | In Depth

In this special segment of In-Depth, Rajdeep Sardesai talks about the India-China conflict but not the military aspect of the issue but the economic repercussions. Rajdeep, raises some of the important questions amid the India-China faceoff in Galwan that, can India really afford to boycott china or is it realistic to do so. Dr. Sanjaya Baru, Distinguished Fellow, IDSA speaks on the matter and discusses with Rajdeep Sardesai. Watch to find out more.

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[Ramesh-TheWorld]

Currently India helps China's Economy through
1) Digital India ( Here, we depend 90% on China)
2) Make in India ( Forget the raw materials. Chinese Companies opened their manufacturing units in India thereby reducing their production costs and make their prices cheaper for Indians. This is how costlier domestic company products get replaced/substituted.
Digital India & Make in India are good initiative of the Indian Govt. but they fail to see beyond just the words "Digital India' and 'Make in India'.
A licensed gun is for self defence. But if you turn the barrel to your head and pull the trigger, 'You commit suicide'.

[MightyKingg]

Lot of Indian companies got killed because of the Chinese products. it's always better to boycott all Chinese product...so that our own GDP will improve. That will directly support our Indian.
Stick to "Make In India"
Jai Hind

[haha]

If I buy Chinese product it won't last a year, but if I buy Indian product, it won't last even a week.

[vivekanandgorle]

Boycotting china will lead to huge job losses and pressurise the economy that is already struggling

[samin]

India should boycott China- Indira Gandhi did that, Nauru did that what is the problem now?

[RP-qstp]

Home Appliances: LG Samsung Whirlpool are Korean
Mobile: Samsung Apple Nokia Sony LG are non China
Automobiles: We have enough Suzuki Tata Mahindra and Hyundai
Engineering Tata L&T
Whats the problem? China's rise happened 10 years ago only, we lived before that as well lol. Keep giving reasons and nothing will change.

[sapnilrastogi]

China wants to occupy galwan valley 'Indian territory'. India asking china to vacate the valley, which china is not doing. This is a clear provocation from chinese side.

[RP-qstp]

Meanwhile, Govt gives 1000 cr project to a Chinese company over L&T for 30 crore savings!!

[MightyKingg]

Boycott Chinese good by 100%.
It's simple and clear. Nothing will affect India. We are self sufficient economy and we need to manage.
Jai Hind

[DoggLeash]

India Also Have a huge trade deficit with the United States as well, Something President Trump was reluctant to discuss on his visit to India, And at the same time India planning on buying over two hundred billions worth of arms from the United States.

[rajahassan]

boycotting Chinese products what alternate India have to buy these products and at what cast, china is a world largest consumer, exporter of consumer electronics.China produced 1.8 billion mobile phones, 300 million computers and 200 million televisions.Chinese products are very cheap and affordable
for Indian to buy. can you afford to buy form USA, Australia or from European countries who also depends on China because of its affordable and cheap prices and being a neighboring country importing from China is easy and cheaper then buying from anyone else.Buying from other countries will cast you much more then China i think Indian government is not stupid to do this you have one solution start made in India otherwise no option

[mohamedashrafbutt]

Sovereignty over Economy ? Big question.

[susdeysun]

Can India live alone likes North Korea? No trade with China, Nepal, and Pakistan. How about 1.3 billion different types of Indians live? How long India would last? It is not China will lose India market but India will lose China market too. India would lose 30 to 35 billion dollars each year. China will send all Indian workers back to India. Another loses. Coronavirus alone can crush India economy. India may regret to play dirty politic on LAC where it has almost no real benefit to Indians. So, from today, India will face coronavirus, massive unemployment, countless internal political conflicts, increased billion dollars for military spending, increased corruptions, multiple war with China, Pakistan, and Nepal. Etc.

[ImpactofAsia]

Interested write up by Bill Purkayastha:

As an Indian, let me say what I think about this article and this issue.

First: the border between India and China had been repeatedly redrawn by the British during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The historical Kashmir territory had been a Mughal Empire possession, then been taken from it by the Sikh Empire, which in the early 1840s was in turn annexed by the Brits and Kashmir put under a puppet Hindu Dogra dynasty. The basic importance of Kashmir to the Brits was that it was a frontier state against “Russian expansion” like Afghanistan, which was not at the time (until the Afghan Independence War of 1919) permitted by the Brits to have a foreign policy. The space between Kashmir and Afghanistan was left to Tibet, which in turn was under the control of the weak and powerless Chinese Empire.

After the Chinese Revolution of 1911 the Brits – who had invaded Tibet in 1903 – decided to cut away Tibet from China before the latter could get strong. They therefore called a “Simla Conference” in 1913 at the Indian city of Simla, now Shimla. The participants were the Dalai Lama’s people, the British under one Henry MacMahon, and one single Chinese representative, Ivan Chen. At that conference the Brits unilaterally divided Tibet into two – an Outer (southern) Tibet that was to be under Chinese “suzerainty” but with no Chinese “sovereignty”, and an Inner (northern) Tibet under both Chinese suzerainty and sovereignty. That is, South Tibet would be explicitly Chinese in name only. MacMahon also redrew the border between the two entities of British India and Outer Tibet, claiming what is now the Indian State of Arunachal Pradesh in the east, calling the new border Britain unilaterally imposed the MacMahon Line. At the same time it explicitly relinquished a large part of its claimed borders of Kashmir in the West, leaving the plateau of Aksai Chin in Ladakh to Outer Tibet. The Dalai Lama’s regime eagerly agreed, but the Chinese did not.

*No Chinese government, Nationalist or Communist, has ever at any time recognised the validity of the Simla Conference or the MacMahon Line.* This is essential to remember. And it did not happen during the Chinese Civil War as this article claims, it happened long before that.

In 1947 India became “independent”, though its military was still equipped and led by British officers. When they left, Nehru began a policy of deliberately promoting incompetent yes-men to the Army’s top ranks so as to not have a military coup. China was still weak and just recovering from the Civil War and was embroiled in Korea, and, seizing the opportunity, in 1951 India invaded Tibetan territory that was explicitly left to Outer Tibet in the east by the MacMahon Line, the monastery town of Tawang, and annexed it. On 1 July 1954 Nehru also unilaterally extended the Indian claim line in Kashmir to re include Aksai Chin, which had been left to Tibet by MacMahon. My father, a young man at the time, himself confirmed to me that before 1954 Indian maps always depicted Aksai Chin in China.

*India cannot simultaneously claim the MacMahon Line in the east and Aksai Chin in the west.* The two are mutually exclusive. It cannot be legally done.

China had repeatedly suggested through the 1950s a straightforward swap – Aksai Chin for the MacMahon Line. India refused every time.

During the late 1950s to mid 60s, too, India hosted CIA listening posts in the Himalayas to spy on China. India and the CIA armed and trained Khampa rebels and parachuted and infiltrated them into Chinese Tibet. India – violating its own promise to China to not permit political activities – allowed the fugitive Dalai Lama regime to set up a “government in exile” in Dharmashala near Shimla. American engagement with India against China is nothing new.

As for the current crisis, it’s entirely manufactured by the Modi regime. The regime is desperate to distract attention from a collapsed economy, a ruinous failed lockdown, surging COVID-19 numbers, ravaging locusts, financial criminals who were permitted to escape abroad, rising popular discontent, and no idea how to fix things. It therefore chose to pick a fight with China, which boomeranged badly. The regime media has suddenly fallen silent on the topic while those media not under the regime claim massive further Indian territorial losses in Aksai Chin. It’s not going to end in war anyway. The Indian army is too weak to take on the Chinese alone, and America is not going to commit suicide for the greater glory of Narendrabhai Damodardasbhai Modi.

[rationalist]

Do something about video resolution and visual quality

[ratnamssomoo]

PM MODI made the right decision in not joining the CPEC, BRI AND RCEP despite strong persuasion from the partner countries including Australia. Rajdeep has been identified and interviewed to join CHINAS WOLF WARRIORS as they found him to be speaking the same language as their team of wolf warriors.

[shub]

Question is not about affordability, as subject, but is of how long will it take for India to have an upper edge over China with whom India is already in economic war.

China’s economic success largely had based on exports first which now is shifting largely to domestic.

India on the contrary is largely domestic first and is now adding value by expanding the Export horizon.

China has recently lost rapport with its major $ incomings from consumers as North America, Australia and soon Indian imports too will make a dent in whatever trade figures.

India is not only offering a high technological base to foreign investors but is assuringly offering a non-chinese reliance on components by enriching brotherly ties with major supply countries as Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand & Malaysia. Getting rid of anything Chinese has become a huge puller for foreign investors.

The aggressive defense investment Chinese Jing Ping is doing to bolster these claims will one day empty the exchequer and bring back poverty to many Chinese that Mr. Jiang & Mr. Juntao has worked very hard to get rid off.

With nearly 40% unemployment of new graduates, massive bankruptcy of business that were dedicated to North American supplies, massive debt of banks funding false domestic growth, failure of one belt one road, China had lost confidence of major investors & its definitely advantage India.

(Till Mr. Modi BJP remains in power India will grow in both pocket size & muscle)

[harimm]

He is such a smart man..Manmohan Singh struck gold with him...

[drogeorge]

Request India Today to investigate and report to us the quantum of Chinese Products that are being sold in India via Amazon India. I find the Amazon India does not show the country of manufacturing for most of the products. We would like to refrain from buying Chinese products. Please help.

[nishantsingh]

Dought is only in your mind! We as countymen will achieve it ..
Not emidietly but definitely!