I do think post covid and the current situation with the chinese being a bully to carve land from india and claim the entire south china sea, does make me rethink on purchasing chinese stuff, I used to buy a lot from chinese e commerce sites, recieved a package just today.
Things I would avoid are chinese owned company products, its impossible to avoid made in china products but you can still stop buying chinese owned ones. Examples of major chinese brands in india Vivo, oppo, realme, one plus all owned by BBK china, Xiaomi etc. Get back to using samsung,lg, sony (they may be still made in prc, which can be changed by tariffs by US and India) but its a start.
As the governmnet increases duties on phones and ready made phone parts, slowly manufactures are now making pcb in india, next step would be the componenets that go into the pcb, which can be substituted with taiwan, japanese and korean and even indian components. We lost all those capacitor, resistor making indian companies due to chinese imports.
Hand tools, power tools, agricultural equipment in SP road are now flooded with chinese imports.
Frauds like Okinawa scooters, Hero electric put themself in make in india badge. But one of them dont even have a paint booth, they just import them as ckd, skd. These companies should not get the EV subsidy, okinawa scooter MD even lies thats its Japanese.
For everything be it in the military, civilian and space we need our own electronic component industry.
US is now forcing apple, intel etc to relocate back to US soil by tariffs. The same can be done here too, its already working in mobile sector, automobile, clothing sector.
In the miliary field, India is already making missile seekers, AESA radars(still a decade behind PRC) Where india is severly lacking is UAV, related comms, thermal vision sensors, where we are atleast 15 years behind. Even the paks have more UAV.
We are two to three decades behind PRC in aircraft engines be it turbo fan, turbo prop/shaft and even rotary piston engine.
We are about a decade behind in rocket motors for missiles compared to PRC.
But one thing for sure is the current government is modernizing the military which the congress stagnated. When you have such nincompoop like AK anthony who knows jack squat about military as a defense minister under congress for 10 years, you only have to listen to his press conference event in bangalore to know what I mean, such a disgrace.
