The United States of America is in touch with India and its other “trusted allies” to move manufacturing from China and create an alternative global supply chain.
In an exclusive conversation with India Today, US Congressman Ted Yoho, Lead Republican for the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and Nonproliferation said the coronavirus pandemic has made the world realise the dependence on China and how that can have a crippling affect on the economy.
Engaging diplomats of like-minded nations, the US is drawing up a plan to move manufacturing of major products from China to India, including back home to further President Trump’s ‘America First’ policy.
Giving an example of how China withheld PPEs when the world needed them the most, Congressman Yoho said, “This is a danger of supply chains being there obviously and that’s why we have talked to your ambassadors about moving supply chains to India and other like-minded allies of ours that have the same philosophy in life.”
India has been working to strengthen the ‘Make In India’ platform in order to invite investments into India.
On May 12, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in an address to the nation, “Time has taught us that we must make ‘local’ the mantra of our lives. Global brands that are there today were once local too. But when people there started supporting them, they became global. That is why from today, every Indian must become vocal for our local,”
Ted Yoho added that there was a need to put more economic pressure on China, in addition to cutting off the supply chain that Beijing is a critical part of be it rare earth metals or vitamins and minerals that go into livestock feed to the APIs.
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