What can India learn from the recent shifts in geoeconomics? | In Focus podcast
The headline in a recent article was arresting \u2013 India fears losing out to China in smartphone exports race. Another broke the news that Mexico had overtaken China for the first time in 20 years as the largest exporter to the US. One more said \u2013 loud and clear at t that \u2013 that India should realise that Vietnam, and not China, was the major competitor.\xa0\xa0\nThere are a few dots we can connect to see a common thread in all these that should interest us \u2013 The world wants to move away from China but that cannot be done in entirety overnight because of the scale that the country has built. But there are some parts of the global supply chain that are indeed moving. Is India poised to benefit from this? What lessons does the China model hold for India? And what is it that countries such as Vietnam are doing right to bolster foreign investments that are in turn spurring those countries\u2019 exports?\xa0\n\nGuest: Biswajit Dhar, Distinguished Professor, Centre for Social Development.\xa0\nHost: K. Bharat Kumar\nEdited by Sharmada Venkatasubramanian.