As an Indian I'm not sure I endorse all this as 'anti-colonialism'. This is a bunch of government bureaucrats who want e.g. data to be stored in the country so they can access personal info more easily...
Indeed, batteries are not included in list of components that can be imported duty free to bonded customs zones, as they don't qualify for being "electronic components."
But the situation is the same for all bulk commodities that have to be locally sourced. That is dictated by the initial purpose of free customs zones: give concessions on high value components, but for whatever Chinese industry was good at manufacturing back in nineties, give none.
The companies wanting to make EVs, are completely free to establish companies outside of free customs zones if they don't want to pay double duty.
Open markets require a certain level of development. Post-Xi (and his anti-corruption measures), this will be possible.
Do you have evidence to support this claim? You seem to be conflating these countries’ governments with their businesses.
Also, can you clarify what you mean by “attacked their population”?
Remember the Opium Wars and the families it made rich (most famous, Coolidge (descendants of Thomas Jefferson), Roosevelts (through the Delano family), Forbes (John Kerry's family), etc.. in the US). On the otherside of the pond, in 1890 (peak opium crisis), 30% of Britain's GDP was illegal opium smuggling to China.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/3/30/opium-at-harvar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_%26_Company
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0AJ59vqzzg
The seperator between government and companies isn't as big as you think when this much multi-generational wealth and political power is invloved.
Kind of funny that many don't know their own history (Roman history is tough...going through 300 years of US history is trivially easy but most still don't).
And by the way, US tobacco manufacturers also managed to addict most of Southeast Asia. I highly recommend Drugs and Rights by Douglas N. Husak (Rutgers, 1992).[0]
0) https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/drugs-and-rights/0C9669...
Remember in international trade, atleast 3 seperate entities end up with copies of every transaction (buyer/seller/shipper).
It's why I consider it more trustworthy...
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/business-history-rev...
The opium epedemic and wars drove the Chinese economy into the ground.
British invasion and colonization of India pushed one of the top trading nations and #1 GDP (China & India competed to maintain #1 status for 2000 years) in the world into the ground.
US and Western Europe is facing this growing opioid issue today (during an economic decline), if we are not careful, we will see very clearly the effects (both socially and economically) of opioids poisoning the gene pool en masse.
It seems the history books you have been exposed to detail a narrative that economic/trade flow history (narrative independent) does not recognize...
What followed a decade after was very telling though (I will skip the Boxer Rebellion but worth reading up on)....
Boxer Rebellion (somewhat Euro-centric perspective, but I will leave it to your objectivity, to see the otherside) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFjHff-zaKY
In 1905, Roosevelt signed a secret treaty with the Japanese on his Imperial Cruise, allowing them to expand into Korea and the rest of Asia.
I don't blame you for not knowing this history, most US historians are/were unaware. Even congress was unaware of the treaty until the documents were released many many years later (post nobel peace prize being handed out).
It's a big part of why most Americans believed Pearl Harbor was potentially a precursor to a Japanese invasion attempt... When it was actually just a slap for breaking a 4 decade long secret treaty that greenlit Japanese expansion (USA renegged on this treaty during the 2nd Sino-Japanese war).
Imperial Cruise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0AJ59vqzzg
You mean the ones from the 1800's? Seriously?
The Coming War on China (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rTVwLNhojI
I'll admit I don't know much about China, but this seems like a very board statement. Could you expand on it a bit? What powerful minority are you thinking of? Aren't they already growing? I mean, China has pretty much taken over a ton of manufacturing.
I'd get my fake news elsewhere:
* England is just one part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
* Germany's economy is rather bigger than either the UK or FR - why not mention them?
Germans werent huge Opium pushers at the time (compared to the English, French, and American). So score 1 for Germany, good decision on their part.
I would expect not having major part of your economy propped up by illcit trading has long term positive consequences, Germany is enjoying the fruits of that to some extent.
You can predict what people with ill-gotten gains do with their money (it's a different discussion but consider what corruption costs society/economy when looking at the 2nd and 3rd order effects of corrupt money).
Opening markets in Europe immediately afte WW2 were a major contributor to preventing another European war.
I can’t speak for what it’s like in India though, and I can understand how having data locally can be an avenue for corruption like you say.
In my view this is not just an 'India' thing, I'm kinda skeptical of the general anti-tech panic that's been brewing over the last couple years. I think the status quo is pretty good and don't want a bunch of government regulators from the US, Europe, China, India etc to be getting all up in Google's business telling them how to run Youtube.
China, India, Russia, etc... all have domestic populations that need to flex their political muscle to achieve freedom in their respective countries, the west can't and won't save you unless there is big money involved (with that money will come foreign corruption)...
Protip: Solve your problems locally, and reap the economic benefit of building your own Indian/Chinese Google... it isn't rocket science and the exercise will be good for your people.
Exactly.
And I'd also rather we have end-to-end encryption being commonly available so that no options, except perhaps normal cellular telephony, can be trivially tapped by governments.
Strange that they see no value in creating and more in manufacturing.
To do the kind of manufacturing and industrialization China did in the time it did, you need a top down organization that does whatever is needed without having to waste time with people's "rights".
Requires a certain level of development before freedom should be introduced. Especially post colonization, where colonial corruption agents are not fully removed from power in the systems in place.
As someone who's also Indian, and also remembers Indian pre-colonial and colonial history, I'm entirely on board with taking active measures to ensure we don't repeat the past.
Yes, all governments have an incentive to spy on their citizens - just look at Australia or the US or the UK. But India has very legitimate reasons to oppose foreign control of its technological infrastructure. And unlike those other countries, India has also established a right to privacy.