Every Indian nationalist is talking about boycotting Chinese products. They're letting emotions take over the logic. Never make decisions emotionally when it comes to national interests.
China is one of the biggest investors into India economy. It's helping the Indian economy in the same way that foreign investors helped China. It is investing massively into the local Indian economy, so eventually they can become stronger. India wants to boycott all that investment lol...and shoot itself in the foot. How dumb can the Indian govt be?!
Every silver lining has a cloud too. People are failing to realise what these opportunities truly represent. China is holding literally every initiative and can be flexible in its approach to the developing "problem" while the choices offered to India are truly rigid. For instance take this boycott which is starting to trend. Where is it coming from? Are you certain it is the events of June? I would suggest boycott China movement has been a long time brewing. I don't want to get into the whys because it's going to be offensive to the Indians.
India's boycott China movement should actually be met with encouragement from the Chinese and anyone who wishes to hinder India. China's exports to India are usually around the 3% of annual Chinese GDP mark which as a nominal value far exceeds India's exports to China. However, the latter accounts for just over 5% of India's annual GPD, all according to more recent years. More importantly, what are these exports comprised of? Well for China to India it is consumer goods of all sorts, something that allows the Indians to go just beyond clothing and feeding themselves. You know, the day to day important stuff that allows people to continue their lives and their businesses.
What does India sell to China? Cotton mostly. Replaceable chemicals and some other minerals which China can more than happily supply for itself if not source for cheap elsewhere. Where can Indians buy that thermometer, kettle, calculator, hairdryer, alarm clock, air filter? They need to stock up a lot on that last one. What about Indian businesses which rely on Chinese equipment and components? They don't have their own that meet standards otherwise they'd be using them. Do they want to increase their expenses many fold? Can they afford to? We're not talking about everything shifting a few percentage points or fractions of percentage points which have killed economies in the past. We're talking a scale that is simply, absolutely, insanely, impossible. As far as I can tell, the majority of day to day items in the western world are STILL made in China or by Chinese factories relocated to South East Asia. How long has Trump's trade war been waging? And this is an economic superpower many times larger than India with far higher abilities for manufacturing and for purchasing expensive alternatives. And yet even there it hasn't really happened on any significant scale. Denying objective reality seems to be a preferred pastime for China haters. I sense a pattern.
Everything India sells to China, China can very easily replace and what better time to do exactly this! A lot of things China sells to India are not really easily replaceable without incurring devastating costs to their economy. If they're not aware of this, we should not be denying the enemy his chance to blunder. Not only has this tit for tat got the potential to rob India of 5% of their annual income, traded for China's 3%, it will also slow them down a lot by taking away necessary tools for economic activity and general progress. Does anyone really think all the Indians who will smash their Chinese computers and smartphones are lining up to replace them with Apple products at five to ten times the cost? Can you, in lavish and wealthy west, afford to smash your daily driver and buy a brand new Lamborghini at ten times the price?
Again, their boycott China movement is something to be encouraged. Meanwhile responses must be made and further crippling of India must be planned and executed. Modi has just given China tacit encouragement to take and settle all claims and disputes once and for all. They will simply say this is not Indian land. If they have demonstrated unwillingness to fight for one part, they will not fight for any. If they do, it's an opportunity for China yet again and certainly a more exciting one and the consequences even more dire for India once it loses its entire armed forces or surrenders after a shooting war. Modi giving up both Ladakh sites indicates India's top brass know that fighting gives them their worst outcome and humiliation. Of course no matter what happens, Indians will use their media to lie until they convinced every loyal Bhakt that pigs do fly... just like how boycotting China is a good idea. The poor sods.
