Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "Modi and Sanchez launch India's first private military aircraft plant" video.

India adorns itself with borrowed plumes.
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@miteshghadi3146 Why, we produce our own designs.
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@AS-fk6gk You demand? You got the deal on a silver platter. It's a win-win squared if you both design and manufacture your planes, and get to export them, too. India has to pay license fees to Airbus and can't export.
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@kabir1934 China may be the world's manufacturing hub, but it mostly does final assembly, which adds relatively little value to a product. You should read the case studies about how big a share of the retail price of an iPhone ends up where. You'll be surprised. Moreover, multinationals are derisking -- moving their manufacturing away from China -- as we speak. Now there's an opportunity for India to add (some) value.
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@manh9105 Win? It's not a zero-sum game. I've had the privilege of working with Indian-born top executives -- Rajeev Suri, the ex-CEO of Nokia, for instance. Somehow the brightest always leave India to benefit other countries. Satya Nadella, whom I've merely met, is another case in point. We'd very much like democratic India to be a credible counterweight to authoritarian China, but both economically and politically, India disappoints.
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@k_now7632 It's not about pleasing the mythical "West". Please yourselves! China will give India the roundaround if it doesn't keep pace. China is poised to completely dominate BRICS now that Russia is turning into a de facto neocolony of China's. With China's industrial might and Russia's natural resources, India will become more and more reliant on China as well -- or subject to China's whims. "The West" is busily weaning itself off hydrocarbons, while India happily benefits from cheap Russian oil -- till China decides that enough is enough. Democracy doesn't necessarily impede economic development. China set itself on a brisk growth path when Deng Xiaoping started gradually liberalising the country. Xi has reversed the process and China's economic growth is slowing as a result. If China's captains of industry fall foul of the CCP, China disappears and re-educates them. Their counterparts in India don't need to fall foul of the government.
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@trijalinamdar5396 No, it's what I am saying. It's obvious, right, that this doesn't concern a domestic design? I'll have you know that we had a phone manufacturing plant in India till 2014. I did some quality audits there myself. China did better, but not by much. Again, I am no media magnate, so I don't get to decide what "my media" publishes. Don't you still have press freedom in India?
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