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Re: Google to Invest $10B in India

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Post by throwaway_12351 »

mytailorisrich wrote: post #6
amrrs wrote: post #3

There's been a recent surge in American companies investing in India primarily through Reliance Jio (owned by Mukhesh Ambani who's got a good connect with the current ruling Government). It's been spiking since the Anti-China sentiment led Buy and Use 'Made in India' cries. Government has even asked eCom Flipkart and Amazon to display Country of Origin for each product. With all these, This investment from Google see…

I think this rather shows the continued weakness of India. On one hand, China and nationalism are used as a tool by the Indian government (not least while the Covid-19 situation goes pear-shaped), on the other hand they are at least as dependent on US companies, if not more. I think India should rather reflect on China's industrial strategy, including investments in infrastructure and fostering the development of nat…

bruh, dead Indian soldiers on the border isn't a "tool", have some empathy for the people who lost their loved ones. India has experience of dealing with China since 1965, your patronizing comment comes across massively condescending.

Re: Google to Invest $10B in India

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Post by jdck1326 »

throwaway_12351 wrote: post #11
mytailorisrich wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this rather shows the continued weakness of India. On one hand, China and nationalism are used as a tool by the Indian government (not least while the Covid-19 situation goes pear-shaped), on the other hand they are at least as dependent on US companies, if not more. I think India should rather reflect on China's industrial strategy, including investments in infrastructure and fostering the development of nat…

bruh, dead Indian soldiers on the border isn't a "tool", have some empathy for the people who lost their loved ones. India has experience of dealing with China since 1965, your patronizing comment comes across massively condescending.

>your patronizing comment comes across massively condescending

Not the case if you give the comment a charitable reading.

Re: Google to Invest $10B in India

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Post by throwaway_12351 »

quyleanh wrote: post #12

Hope India is not the second China, where they are invested and destroyed when being strong because of threatening America's position.

I think it will be more like US/UK relationship. China had a good chance to be like US if they would have been politically liberal, though I don't think they would have been so well off economically since political instability is costly.

India's governance is a derivative of UK, so most likely just like UK with a 20 times bigger market.

Re: Google to Invest $10B in India

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Post by mytailorisrich »

quyleanh wrote: post #12

Hope India is not the second China, where they are invested and destroyed when being strong because of threatening America's position.

The US will act against any threats to their position.

Although India has the potential to be a threat, so far it hasn't been and the more the US can invest in India and 'own' large swathes of key industries the better for the US but someday India may wake up to the fact that their economy is, or can be, larger than the US's and start acting accordingly.

Re: Google to Invest $10B in India

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Post by bamboozled »

buran77 wrote: post #7
bamboozled wrote: post #4

Getting the feeling China has blown it and successful companies looking to expand into Asia are now looking at India instead. I also saw that Foxconn is looking to build Apple products in India now too.

Companies don't invest billions in India to shaft China, they're doing it to maintain or grow their position on the Indian market, which is a huge one. If India suddenly sees a wave of "build it at home" sentiment then Google or Apple won't want to be left out and fall behind the competition. Publicly traded companies can't afford to play favorites, they "have to" go where the profits are and make the best of it, whe…

No, but they need to make logical decisions about which market to invest in, and it seems they've picked a favorite and decided ?

If I was making that decision, it would be clearly easier to do business in India rather than China and likely far more lucrative with less concerns about property theft, censorship and the stain that human rights abuses will leave.

I don't know if you've ever tried to setup anything in China, it's not exactly a straight forward process or something you'd want to have to do often.

Re: Google to Invest $10B in India

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Post by throwaway_12351 »

jdck1326 wrote: post #13
throwaway_12351 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

bruh, dead Indian soldiers on the border isn't a "tool", have some empathy for the people who lost their loved ones. India has experience of dealing with China since 1965, your patronizing comment comes across massively condescending.

>your patronizing comment comes across massively condescending Not the case if you give the comment a charitable reading.

fuck your charity, and fuck yourself and the parent as well. once you lose some loved one in a military skimmish, then call them a tool.

Re: Google to Invest $10B in India

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Post by fiblye »

quyleanh wrote: post #12

Hope India is not the second China, where they are invested and destroyed when being strong because of threatening America's position.

India is generally more culturally and politically similar to the west than China. Unless they decide to embark on some unexpected imperialist conquest, I don’t think they’ll have such an active movement to divest from them in the future.

Re: Google to Invest $10B in India

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Post by mcny »

mytailorisrich wrote: post #16
quyleanh wrote: post #12

Hope India is not the second China, where they are invested and destroyed when being strong because of threatening America's position.

The US will act against any threats to their position. Although India has the potential to be a threat, so far it hasn't been and the more the US can invest in India and 'own' large swathes of key industries the better for the US but someday India may wake up to the fact that their economy is, or can be, larger than the US's and start acting accordingly.

China PR makes me question a lot of things. For example, I’ve always been told that protectionism doesn’t work but with the great firewall it seems to work just fine in China PR. How do I explain it?
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