🔁Mario Nawfal:
but without the human cost that has haunted “Made in China” for decades.
To get there, India will have to move beyond public relations headlines and confront the hard, boring work of nation-building.
It needs industrial zones that function without daily power cuts.
It needs universities that produce not just coders, but skilled industrial engineers.
It needs a bureaucracy that clears factories faster than it clears its own throat.
In short, India needs to choose whether it wants to be the next China — or something better.
If it fails, it will remain a giant assembly shop, perpetually promising but never leading.
If it succeeds, it will not only shift the world’s manufacturing center of gravity but could show that globalization does not have to come at the price of dignity.
History rarely offers second chances.
India would be wise not to waste this one.
Sources: Le Monde, Wired
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but without the human cost that has haunted “Made in China” for decades.
To get there, India will have to move beyond public relations headlines and confront the hard, boring work of nation-building.
It needs industrial zones that function without daily power cuts.
It needs universities that produce not just coders, but skilled industrial engineers.
It needs a bureaucracy that clears factories faster than it clears its own throat.
In short, India needs to choose whether it wants to be the next China — or something better.
If it fails, it will remain a giant assembly shop, perpetually promising but never leading.
If it succeeds, it will not only shift the world’s manufacturing center of gravity but could show that globalization does not have to come at the price of dignity.
History rarely offers second chances.
India would be wise not to waste this one.
Sources: Le Monde, Wired
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/... https://x.com/MarioNawfal/...
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