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Catering to domestic demand rather than to china's demands https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/china-extends-anti-dumping-tariff-indian-optical-fiber-72
by spellunkskunk 6y ago
Catering to domestic demand rather than to china's demands https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/china-extends-anti-dumping-tariff-indian-optical-fiber-72344654 https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/china-extends-an...
- schemy 6y agoIndia is going to overtake China in population by 2022, and the Indian population pyramid is lagging China's by 30-40 years. This is going to be a very interesting time when China overtakes the US in the nominal size of GDP, only to have India start doing what China did to the US before it even happens. We might be looking at the 30 Chinese years instead of the Chinese century.
- blueblisters 6y agoI am actually surprised that India has a big and competitive enough optical fiber industry that exports to China for China to raise punitive anti-dumping tariffs.
- manquer 6y agoFibre is relatively low tech compared to Fabs and chip industry. Perhaps it is a function of raw material costs ? While compared to western standards Chinese labour remains cheap, it is expensive compared to East Asia and India who are poorer than China and have less purchasing power.