India Faces 'Very Significant Challenges', Especially From China, Says White House As It Releases Indo-Pacific Strategy

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India Faces 'Very Significant Challenges', Especially From China, Says White House As It Releases Indo-Pacific Strategy​

byPTI-Feb 12, 2022 10:58 AM
India Faces 'Very Significant Challenges', Especially From China, Says White House As It Releases Indo-Pacific Strategy


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Washington, Feb 12 (PTI) India is beset with significant geopolitical challenges, in particular from China and its behaviour on the Line of Actual Control, the White House has said, while releasing its Indo-Pacific Strategic Report.

The strategic report, released on Friday, is the President Joe Biden-led administration's first region specific report. It outlines the president's vision to firmly anchor the United States' position in the Indo-Pacific, strengthen the region and support India's rise and regional leadership in the process.

'We will continue to build a strategic partnership in which the United States and India work together and through regional groupings to promote stability in South Asia; collaborate in new domains such as health, space, and cyberspace; deepen our economic and technology cooperation; and contribute to a free and open Indo-Pacific,' the White House said.

'We recognise that India is a like-minded partner and leader in South Asia and the Indian Ocean, active in and connected to Southeast Asia, a driving force of the Quad and other regional fora, and an engine for regional growth and development,' the White House statement added. However, a senior US official, on condition of anonymity, pointed out the significant challenges New Delhi is beset with.

'But India faces very significant challenges. China's behaviour on the Line of Actual Control has had a galvanizing impact on India. From our standpoint, we see tremendous opportunities in working with another democracy - with a country that has a maritime tradition that understands the importance of the global commons - to advance critical issues in the region,” said the White House official.

'There is tremendous appreciation of the importance and the challenges of strengthening the engagement with India and a recognition that India is a critical strategic partner, and a desire to continue building on the very good work of previous administrations to significantly broaden and deepen that relationship,” the official said.

The official made the candid observations while briefing reporters on the release of the new regional strategy. The senior administrator said the previous US administrations, including the previous one led by President Donald Trump, had done a great job in the Indo-Pacific region.

The strategic report was released as a Quad Ministerial is underway in Australia; foreign ministers from Australia, India, Japan and the US on Friday expressed concerns over the malign Chinese role in the region.

China, the strategic report said, is combining its economic, diplomatic, military, and technological might as it pursues a sphere of influence in the Indo-Pacific and seeks to become the world's most influential power.

The Chinese coercion and aggression spans the globe, but it is most acute in the Indo-Pacific, it said.

From the economic coercion of Australia to the conflict along the Line of Actual Control with India to the growing pressure on Taiwan and bullying of neighbours in the East and South China Seas, our allies and partners in the region bear much of the cost of the People's Republic of China's (PRC) harmful behaviour.

In the process, China is also undermining human rights and international law, including freedom of navigation, as well as other principles that have brought stability and prosperity to the Indo-Pacific, the strategy said.

'Our collective efforts over the next decade will determine whether the PRC succeeds in transforming the rules and norms that have benefitted the Indo-Pacific and the world. For our part, the United States is investing in the foundations of our strength at home, aligning our approach with those of our allies and partners abroad, and competing with the PRC to defend the interests and vision for the future that we share with others,' it said.

'We will strengthen the international system, keep it grounded in shared values, and update it to meet 21st-century challenges. Our objective is not to change China but to shape the strategic environment in which it operates, building a balance of influence in the world that is maximally favourable to the United States, our allies and partners, and the interests and values we share,' it added.
Responding to a question, the senior official told reporters that the last four administrations have played a significant role in improving relations with India.

'With regard to India, we very explicitly highlight the importance of - the importance of what the last four administrations have all played a very important role in advancing, which is the much greater US engagement, much improved US relations with and much closer US partnership with India,” the official said.

“Obviously, India's role in the QUAD I think is a very significant element of that, including the ability to speak frankly, about issues in the region, to work together to deliver essentially public goods that address the challenges in the region, and to enhance ways in which we can coordinate,” the official said.

India, the senior official said, is in a very different place, in many ways than Australia and other countries.

 

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In other words, India is useful cannon fodder for the west to fight China, a bulwark to defend global western colonialism and domination.
 

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When push comes to shove, the democratic civilized world has had to pool their resources to stand upto and take on brutal regimes - Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and now Xi. Nothing new in this.
 

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When push comes to shove, the democratic civilized world has had to pool their resources to stand upto and take on brutal regimes - Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and now Xi. Nothing new in this.
How exactly did the west stand up to Stalin?
 

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When push comes to shove, the democratic civilized world has had to pool their resources to stand upto and take on brutal regimes -
By buying more Chinese goods? Do they believe that they can buy up all Chinese goods so China would not have anything left for her own?
What do you exactly mean by "pooling their resources to stand up to China"? By printing more US dollars?
 

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By buying more Chinese goods? Do they believe that they can buy up all Chinese goods so China would not have anything left for her own?
What do you exactly mean by "pooling their resources to stand up to China"? By printing more US dollars?
Global manufacturing moved to China when China was happy to suck up to the West. Supply chains and manufacturing can move, although it takes time.
 

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How come we see hundreds of billions dollars invested in China from almost all big global brands recently , Tesla, Boeing, Airbus, Toyota, BMW.....How many of them set up new research centers or factories in India recently? and how come China still enjoys the biggest FDI? You call this shifting of supply chains?

Don't be so naive and fooled by the west, they just want you to serve as their cannon fodder, that's it. When was the last time you see them putting the money where their mouth is?
 

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Heard of the Berlin air drop?
Hoo boy, they really showed Stalin with that one, hm? Really threatened his position and power there, by giving a destroyed city deep inside soviet controlled territory food and coal, that scared the living daylight out of him and the kremlin!
Ever heard of Lend-Lease, where the British and Americans supported the Soviets with virtually everything they asked for? Or of the Holodomor, when the west got to buy cheap ukrainian grain while the ukrainians themselves starved to death in the millions? Reminds one of the Bengal famine, doesn't it? That other event that really showcased the benevolence of the west and which should be a bit more familiar to you.
 

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Hoo boy, they really showed Stalin with that one, hm? Really threatened his position and power there, by giving a destroyed city deep inside soviet controlled territory food and coal, that scared the living daylight out of him and the kremlin!
Ever heard of Lend-Lease, where the British and Americans supported the Soviets with virtually everything they asked for? Or of the Holodomor, when the west got to buy cheap ukrainian grain while the ukrainians themselves starved to death in the millions? Reminds one of the Bengal famine, doesn't it? That other event that really showcased the benevolence of the west and which should be a bit more familiar to you.
Lol. Yes, it showed him. Not liking an answer seems to be an automatic segue to whataboutery.

What happened to the erstwhile Soviet Union? It doesn't even exist on the map anymore. Stalin's USSR is gone.
 

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Lol. How long did it take to move from the west to Japan, then Korea, then Republic of China and then to Communist China?
How long? Korea and Japan had never nearly reached today's China's industrial and manufacturing level, they were part of supply chain in some sectors ,but had been never like China which is all across the board.
 

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How long? Korea and Japan had never nearly reached today's China's industrial and manufacturing level, they were part of supply chain in some sectors ,but had been never like China which is all across the board.
Look it up. Almost everything you bought in the 1980s was Made in Japan.
 

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Look it up. Almost everything you bought in the 1980s was Made in Japan.
Maybe in India, but not in China. check out the old data. Korea and Japan had never nearly reached today's China's industrial and manufacturing level. Japan did make a lot of electronic stuff, but that's it, but China dominates the global supply chain all across the board in almost everything.
 

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Maybe in India, but not in China. check out the old data. Korea and Japan had never nearly reached today's China's industrial and manufacturing level. Japan did make a lot of electronic stuff, but that's it, but China dominates the global supply chain all across the board in almost everything.
Can't comment on the Communist world but in the democratic, civilized world - Sony, JVC, Panasonic, Suzuki, Honda, Toyota, Nintendo, Super Mario Bros, Sega, Mitsubishi, Gameboy etc. ruled the roost.
 

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Can't comment on the Communist world but in the democratic, civilized world - Sony, JVC, Panasonic, Suzuki, Honda, Toyota, Nintendo, Super Mario Bros, Sega, Mitsubishi, Gameboy etc. ruled the roost.
Funny thing is that all these "civilized world" you mentioned now are increasingly growing dependence on China, including you so much admired Japan.

Japan heavily dependent on China for imported items, report says​

Shipping containers at Lianyungang port, in China's Jiangsu province. |  AFP-JIJI Shipping containers at Lianyungang port, in China's Jiangsu province. | AFP-JIJI

98.8% of all imports of laptop and tablet computers and 85.7% mobile phones are from China

Feb 3, 2022

Japan’s imported goods have been heavily dependent on China, which accounted for 23% of all items imported from around the world in 2019, the Cabinet Office said Thursday.

In a report on world economic trends, the government agency compared Japan’s degree of dependence on imports from China — sometimes euphemized as the “world’s factory” — with Germany’s dependence on the Unites States.

The report warned that “the country’s import structure is risky.”

The reported stated that compared with the United States and Germany, it would be more difficult for Japan to find substitutes for Chinese-made goods if supply were to run short.
For Japan, imports from China made up 98.8% of all imports of laptop and tablet computers and 85.7% for mobile phones.

Meanwhile, the share of shoes imported from China came to 66.0% in 2019, sharply down from 91.7% in 2009.

“In line with China’s industrial advancement, Japan’s imports from China are shifting from labor-intensive products to capital-intensive products that require technologies,” the report said.

 

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Funny thing is that all these "civilized world" you mentioned now are increasingly growing dependence on China, including you so much admired Japan.

Japan heavily dependent on China for imported items, report says​

Shipping containers at Lianyungang port, in China's Jiangsu province. |  AFP-JIJI's Jiangsu province. |  AFP-JIJI Shipping containers at Lianyungang port, in China's Jiangsu province. | AFP-JIJI

98.8% of all imports of laptop and tablet computers and 85.7% mobile phones are from China

Feb 3, 2022

Japan’s imported goods have been heavily dependent on China, which accounted for 23% of all items imported from around the world in 2019, the Cabinet Office said Thursday.

In a report on world economic trends, the government agency compared Japan’s degree of dependence on imports from China — sometimes euphemized as the “world’s factory” — with Germany’s dependence on the Unites States.

The report warned that “the country’s import structure is risky.”

The reported stated that compared with the United States and Germany, it would be more difficult for Japan to find substitutes for Chinese-made goods if supply were to run short.
For Japan, imports from China made up 98.8% of all imports of laptop and tablet computers and 85.7% for mobile phones.

Meanwhile, the share of shoes imported from China came to 66.0% in 2019, sharply down from 91.7% in 2009.

“In line with China’s industrial advancement, Japan’s imports from China are shifting from labor-intensive products to capital-intensive products that require technologies,” the report said.

Please read my post again. We were discussing how manufacturing always moves to places where its cost effective and how things WERE made in Japan then. Is this simple enough to understand?
 

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Please read my post again. We were discussing how manufacturing always moves to places where its cost effective and how things WERE made in Japan then. Is this simple enough to understand?
But you compare China with Japan and Korea, I just pointed out how different they are, small countries can only focus on certain sectors of industrial and manufacturing domain, while China is strong all across the board, besides, Japan and Korea don't have robust domestic consumer market to support their industries while China as the world biggest retail market is self sustainable, can you see this difference? China is not only the world biggest exporter, she is also the world second biggest importer.
 

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But you compare China with Japan and Korea, I just pointed out how different they are, small countries can only focus on certain sectors of industrial and manufacturing domain, while China is strong all across the board, besides, Japan and Korea don't have robust domestic consumer market to support their industries while China as the world biggest retail market is self sustainable, can you see this difference? China is not only the world biggest exporter, she is also the world second biggest importer.
Two entirely different things. China can remain a consumer while manufacturing moves to cheaper locations.
 

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