Big Take Asia Podcast

China’s Tech Grip Threatens India’s Ambitions

On today’s Big Take Asia podcast, we look at India’s ambitious manufacturing dream and why it can’t achieve it without China.

A mobile phone assembly line at a subsidiary of Dixon Technologies in Noida.Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg

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By K Oanh Ha and Yang Yang

April 21, 2026 at 7:35 PM UTC

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India wants to become a manufacturing powerhouse to rival China — but its reliance on the Chinese supply chain for things like batteries and semiconductors makes for a complex and exceedingly difficult puzzle to untangle.