A typical case of “kicking away the ladder.” It seems even more brutal when India is already climbing the mobile phone value chain.
Many who doubted India's PLI scheme for mobile phones (LSEM) seem reluctant to acknowledge the recent progress.
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@gypsy_nilima@AshwiniVaishnaw@RajatSethi86 Why do you think all this can be set up and operational in a few years of an assembly success? Samsung is already working on OLED fab in India, entire sc value chain being set up in India, it'll take time. You're asking an infant to start running when he's just started to crawl.
“Elon Musk picked the wrong moment to lecture Indians..Musk didn’t understand that in India, along with most of the world, trust in America is collapsing,” says Fareed Zakaria on Musk-Reliance Starlink debate
@theamitkpaul@Awasthiii_18 The others were settled regardless, besides legacy issues in Depsang if I recall correctly. Equitable solution in Finger area paved way for the rest. One may argue whether we underplayed or overplayed our hand, but the debate becomes impertinent when status quo has been achieved.
@rpotter_9@Ayush90588474 We know how PRC looks at us. We're well versed in it, our strategic culture revolves around it. We need to be immunized to the idea that US/West look at us favourably. A whole generation grew up believing the lie. Indians once knew the threat, but the lessons were lost to time.