On social media, there is a campaign to ban buying Chinese goods in India, subsequent to the former's role in preventing from declaring Azhar Masood, the master brain behind terror attacks on Indian soil, an international terrorist. It goes as follows.....
"Please Boycott Chinese goods permanently as China has voted against India in United Nation on the question of terrorism and has supported Pakistan openly. I am going to do it in National interest. You may also join. Blah blah .."
It's not my intention to put a spanner in their movement, IF it really helps in making a substantial difference to teach the Chinese a lesson - but India's share in Chinese exports is a mere 2 %, vis a vis, America's 20%, Western Europe's 15% and even Japan's 5%, a country which raped and ransacked China a little more than half a century ago.
The Chinese know how to do business. If they sensed any tangible impact on their economy by an Indian boycott of their goods, they could have been more prudent and easily dropped a small fry Azhar Masood like a hot potato. It wouldn't have been a big deal for them to do so.
Having said that - the best way to deal with the shrewed and recalcitrant Chinese is to built our own economy. We have a great potential to compete with them by becoming the economic hub of export. The Vietnamese and the Cambodians are already doing it - so why not us ?
But with such a chaotic democracy, it is easier said than done. To be an economic bullwork against the Bull in China Shop will take a while. The call for boycott of Chinese goods would be akin to take away a bucket of water from an ocean, or throwing a toothpick inside a volcano - which would hardly make a dent. Till then, we have to bear this. Unfortunately.
"Please Boycott Chinese goods permanently as China has voted against India in United Nation on the question of terrorism and has supported Pakistan openly. I am going to do it in National interest. You may also join. Blah blah .."
It's not my intention to put a spanner in their movement, IF it really helps in making a substantial difference to teach the Chinese a lesson - but India's share in Chinese exports is a mere 2 %, vis a vis, America's 20%, Western Europe's 15% and even Japan's 5%, a country which raped and ransacked China a little more than half a century ago.
The Chinese know how to do business. If they sensed any tangible impact on their economy by an Indian boycott of their goods, they could have been more prudent and easily dropped a small fry Azhar Masood like a hot potato. It wouldn't have been a big deal for them to do so.
Having said that - the best way to deal with the shrewed and recalcitrant Chinese is to built our own economy. We have a great potential to compete with them by becoming the economic hub of export. The Vietnamese and the Cambodians are already doing it - so why not us ?
But with such a chaotic democracy, it is easier said than done. To be an economic bullwork against the Bull in China Shop will take a while. The call for boycott of Chinese goods would be akin to take away a bucket of water from an ocean, or throwing a toothpick inside a volcano - which would hardly make a dent. Till then, we have to bear this. Unfortunately.
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