Trump doesn’t want Apple to invest in India – What happened?

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1. He wanted them to move to doing everything in the US not realising how unrealistic that was

2. He wants US manufacturing to be great again, but his delusions aside, that will increase the iPhone cost alteast 1.5x to 2x. Tim Apple is not an idiot, he knows this.

3. Is it because India did not grovel enough?

4. Apple is the highest valued company in the world, valued at > $3 trillion.

   My assumption is that they could manufacture phones in the U.S., not raise prices on those phones for consumers, and still make a profit. They’re selling phones for > $1,000 a piece; that price only makes sense if it was made in the U.S.

   Now they wouldn’t be the most profitable company and they wouldn’t be worth $3 trillion, but who cares? Some stockholders suffer for the greater good of the country, and Americans overall benefit.

   I hate Trump, but Americans ARE being ripped off. Not so much by China, but by our own companies, politicians, and laws/policies.

   Manufacturing in India would be better than China for sure though, at least we wouldn’t be helping our adversary to overcome us.

5. Apple already clarify after trump nonsense statement that there will be no change in plan. Second I think trump need donation like he take from Qatar.
   India is now best for Apple from govt policies to all support. Even yesterday Foxconn started project of chips in india and I think that will mostly use in apple devices. Already 3 plant of apple in india and next two are in construction process and for one or two plants apple partners are looking for lands. Even Apple airpods partner are now increasing production from in India. Does trump understand basic of business? It’s impossible for apple to change factory every year and labour cost of america is unbearable for any companies. Even despite Trump reaction tesla is looking for land in india for assembly until.

6. Didn’t he say that he wanted American phones to be made in the US but that Indian phones could/would be made in India?

   A few months ago he promised American phones would be made in the US instead of China so it sounds like covering his ass.

7. India fails in the stress testing of becoming next world factory.

   Capital needs to find somewhere safe and stable. The place needs to prove that it has the means to protect itself and repelling any foreign interrupting attempts. Capital couldn’t care less about race, skin color, ideology or whatever.

   For accomplishing this test, India needs to show at least one of the two capabilities: either India can drag China down to the shithole of a prolonged border skirmish with its neighbor at the cost of economic loss, or India can beat China’s ally in this area and prove to rest of the world that China does not have the capability to protect even Pakistan, the most important ally China has in Indian Ocean.

   IF, I say IF, Pakistan lost in the recent border skirmishes and air-to-air combat, they it will be a dilemma for China and I think the only way China can choose is to put more resources into Pakistan, tanks, jet fighters, field artilleries, even naval fleets need to be mobilized. And by that time, India will have huge upper hands in diplomacy and US will finally realize the dream of dragging China into a war with US’ proxy, not US itself.

   Considering this air-to-air combat happens right before Sino-American trade talks in Geneva, this combat can also be seen as a test on PLAAF. PAF is much, much nerfed version of PLAAF, no stealth fighters, no twin-engine heavy jets, no advanced AEW&C and EW planes; however, it claims great air-to-air victory over IAF’s most modern jet, Rafale. This combat shows US a fact that he may have known but yet confirmed: there’s no way for US military to stay unharmed if they want to go head-to-head with PLA; if such fight happens near mainland China, US military may even suffer heavy and unacceptable loss.

   Then there’s no meaning for US to continue with India. US has known the results: India cannot even keep Pakistan in line, and US won’t stand a chance on a fight too close to China. India IS geographically close to China and when things become desperate, China can just destroy the infrastructures and factories in India using its conventional force. This also holds true for Vietnam, Philippines and other SEA countries. The only safe option for US to “transfer” industrial production is Americas.

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