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[Dr Amiya Chandra @DrAmiyaChandra]

Today with @CNBCTV18News
Sharing my perspective on India - USA trade deal talks.

#trade #indiausa #importexport #tradestrategy

[Dr Amiya Chandra @DrAmiyaChandra]

Delhi’s fire-safety challenge is not just about faster fire engines. It is about detecting danger before flames appear — overheated wires, overloaded circuits, unstable batteries and silent warning signs we often miss.

Read my article:
https://t.co/S3HmNsbqgA

#firesafety #newdelhi #hazardprone

@vifindia @LtGovDelhi @gupta_rekha @CMODelhi

[Dr Amiya Chandra @DrAmiyaChandra]

India is often running a marathon while global trade is sprinting.

That is the “Velocity Gap” this article talks about.

Global markets move in weeks. Institutional responses move in months.

To win more export opportunities, India must break bureaucratic silos, move from slow process-driven governance to outcome-focused governance, and make faster decisions when global opportunities open.

Read my latest article:

https://t.co/j9vNYaU6sP

#indiantrade #importexport #tradeandcommerce

@vifindia @DoC_GoI

[Dr Amiya Chandra @DrAmiyaChandra]

Most people are reading the EU-China “Made in Europe” standoff as a trade dispute. I think that’s too narrow a frame.

What’s actually happening is a fundamental rewiring of how the world’s largest economies think about industrial strategy.

For decades, the logic was simple: manufacture where it’s cheapest, sell where demand is highest. China optimised that model better than anyone — and Europe benefited enormously from cheap EVs, batteries, and solar panels that accelerated its own green transition.

Now the EU is saying that model has a hidden cost. 200,000+ jobs lost in energy-intensive and automotive sectors since 2024. 600,000 more projected in car-making alone by the end of the decade. That’s not a market correction. That’s structural hollowing out.

The Industrial Accelerator Act is Europe’s response — require companies to use EU-made components to access public funds. Force technology partnerships. Rebuild the industrial base, even if it’s slower and more expensive.

China calls it systemic discrimination. And from a pure free-market standpoint, they’re not entirely wrong.

But here’s the harder truth: free markets don’t automatically protect strategic industries. Sometimes you need policy to do what competition won’t.

The question isn’t whether Europe is right or wrong to do this. The question is whether it’s too late — and whether Chinese retaliation will arrive faster than European manufacturing can recover.

That’s the race no one is talking about.

#IndustrialPolicy #EUChina #Geopolitics #Manufacturing

Had mentioned this earlier:

https://t.co/qiIXuxjqeh

[VIF India @vifindia]

Dr Amiya Chandra in the article evaluates whether India can achieve its ambitious goal of increasing exports to $7.9 trillion by 2047 and become a major global trading power. He argues that it can be achieved through deep structural reforms, shifts to high-value exports and a coordinated, long term national strategy focussing on competitiveness, trust and global integration.
@DrAmiyaChandra
https://t.co/RWvMCX7q7I

[Dr Amiya Chandra @DrAmiyaChandra]

India is aiming for a 10x export jump by 2047 — from $860 billion to $7.9 trillion.

But the real shift isn’t just in numbers.
Global trade is no longer driven by price — it’s driven by trust, resilience, and strategy.

With export concentration risks, low high-tech share, and rising global competition, India’s next leap will depend on how well it moves from cost advantage to value creation — and builds a complete export ecosystem powered by real-time digital monitoring, AI-driven trade intelligence, blockchain-backed traceability, and stronger MSME participation.

Read the full analysis: https://t.co/yOrBvuJT2e

@vifindia @DoC_GoI

#indianexports #trade

[Dr Amiya Chandra @DrAmiyaChandra]

India reacts to global trade shocks. It's time India anticipates them.

My book India's Export Renaissance is now LIVE on Amazon India.

The world's trade landscape is shifting — supply chain disruptions, geopolitical realignments, digital commerce explosions. Traditional policy cycles can't keep up.

The ESIR Framework — Engage, Sustain, Initiate, Recalibrate — is designed to change that.

✅ Real-time digital monitoring
✅ AI-powered trade intelligence
✅ Blockchain-backed export traceability
✅ MSME empowerment at scale
✅ New tools: DART | BharatE | SNEW | TIDE | UEPD

Together, these build a smarter, faster, more resilient export governance system — positioning India for global trade leadership as we march toward India@2047.

Order your copy here: https://t.co/SBtDZeuepY

#IndiaExports #TradePolicy #ESIR #India2047 #DigitalIndia #Exports

[Dr Amiya Chandra @DrAmiyaChandra]

Same campus, a few more grey hairs. Reunions hit different when the place meant everything. ❤️

#JNU forever.

[Dr Amiya Chandra @DrAmiyaChandra]

India is landfilling its own strategic reserves.

Every discarded EV motor. Every old hard drive. Gone.

E-waste holds 20–30% rare earths. Natural ore? Just 1–10%.
We're literally throwing away a resource richer than what we mine.

The ₹7,280Cr REPM scheme is bold. But swapping imported magnets for imported minerals isn't independence — it's a rebranded dependency.
The real play? Urban mining.
India generates 14L MT of e-waste annually.

That's not a waste problem. That's a supply chain we haven't built yet.

4 things that would actually move the needle:
→ Treat old electronics as "super-ores" — mandate magnet recovery at scale
→ Pay collectors by strategic value, not bulk weight
→ Certify recycled magnets digitally — get ahead of global sustainability standards
→ Launch an India Critical Enablers Mission — one body, no ministerial silos

We built a national scrap ecosystem for newspapers and iron. We can do it for rare earth magnets.
The bottleneck in global refining is a chokehold.

Urban mining is how we break it.
Our waste isn't a liability. It's leverage

#UrbanMining #RareEarths #CriticalMinerals #MakeInIndia #EVs

[Dr Amiya Chandra @DrAmiyaChandra]

Not just a summer story — Delhi’s water crisis is a systems story.

From monsoon abundance to summer distress, Delhi swings between excess and scarcity. The push on pipeline renewal, leak reduction, monitoring, storage, treatment and DJB reform matters because it begins to address structural weakness, not just tanker-era firefighting.

In The August Paradox for Vivekananda International Foundation, I argue Delhi must “carry its own water” through a Reliability System and Managed Aquifer Recharge that capture monsoon surplus to bridge summer scarcity.

Read here: https://t.co/pDArquQ231

@MCD_Delhi @FinMinIndia @MoHUA_India @vifindia @LtGovDelhi

[Dr Amiya Chandra @DrAmiyaChandra]

Choke points are the strategic buzzword today, with both military and economic weight. But while the lessons of the Strait of Hormuz have led many to imagine similar leverage around Lakshadweep and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands, I would argue for a bigger idea: India must evolve as a Platform Power to counter aggression.

The real lesson of Hormuz is not that disruption is power. It is that the world depends on states that can preserve stability when critical flows are threatened.

For India, that means thinking beyond choke point denial. Our long-term strength depends on securing the flows that sustain national power — trade, energy, logistics, finance, mobility, and trust.

That is also why naval power remains central. India cannot base its strategy only on disruption when its own prosperity depends on open and secure sea lanes.

With pressure from China, Pakistan, Indian Ocean competition, and proxy threats, India needs strategic flexibility: submarines and surface fleets, air power and surveillance, island capabilities and mobile response forces.

Lakshadweep and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands should therefore be developed not as static denial points, but as integrated hubs for reach, deterrence, logistics, and rapid deployment.

India’s real task is not to imitate Hormuz. It is to ensure that, within its sphere of influence, vital flows remain secure, trusted, and free from coercion. That is what a Platform Power does.

https://t.co/7gNOGKzA0p.

@shipmin_india @sjaishankaroffc @DrSJaishankar @DoC_GoI @HardeepSPuri @PiyushGoyal

[Dr Amiya Chandra @DrAmiyaChandra]

India’s West Asia stance is framed as “pragmatic restraint” vs “critique of silence.”

However in a unipolar world, silence is a loss of sovereign voice.

In Navigating the Unipolarity Chakravyuh, I argue for proactive, Dharma-led engagement.

https://t.co/O2b2UXMEhr

[Dr Amiya Chandra @DrAmiyaChandra]

The U.S. building drones inspired by Iran signals a shift:
advantage today is speed of learning and deployment.

India has done this for years through frugal engineering — from Chandrayaan to scale innovation.
My article explores a similar idea. @vifindia
https://t.co/M384mEYIcj

[News18 @CNNnews18]

#BattleForBihar | PM Modi always remembers Sitaram Kesari, Congress disrespected and mistreated him: Sitaram Kesari's grandson Santosh Kesari in an #exclusive conversation with @_pallavighosh

o#BiharElection2025 | @akankshaswarups

[pallavi ghosh @_pallavighosh]

Hitting back at the tariff turmoil and how india can do it - https://t.co/ONCYDlX97I

[Shreshtha @ShreshthaRD]

@VanillaSkills @benitadua @amitshah_k Super excited for the session! There’s enough conjecture about the use of AI in marketing but to learn about how it can help B2B will be great! Especially because it requires a relatively narrower customer approach. 😁

[Shreshtha @ShreshthaRD]

I work so that my dogs can sleep.

[News18 @CNNnews18]

At this Jagannath hall hostel of Dhaka University, students say "when power changes some take advantage - those attacks shouldn’t have happened on Hindus” in conversation with News18's @_pallavighosh

#Bangladesh #BangladeshHorror | @KuheenaSharma

[Benita Bhatia Dua @benitadua]

AI is going to be a very sharp two sided sword… the sharpest we have ever encountered.

Context: Meta is going to use our content to train its AI. Apple has announced that Siri will use OpenAi and there is going to be a whole host of data sharing.

God help us.