Made In India Instead Of Made In China

How Western nations and large companies chose India instead of China to establish their factories and their businesses

How can we have done in India instead of made in China?

Or divided into which half of the companies are in India and the other half in China

What change of history would make India become attractive to business?

Maybe a British Raj India united after independence?

How would that affect the power of China, India, and the rest of the world?

China-India relations, Western and Chinese relations?

India to Asia, especially Pakistan and Bangladesh?
 
You'd need the good old "No License Raj" scenario. There are a number of possibilities that could lead to this, such as no Partition and the death of Nehru and the rise of the capitalistic politician Sardar Vallabhai Patel to the premiership as a result. Such PODs would avoid the socialistic nature of India, what with its five year plans and what not, and would make India a Western-aligned state barring anything like a Suez Crisis-like thing totally destroying relations between the First and Third Worlds.
 
1. None of that socialist experiment thing under Ghandi.

2. Don't try to skip industrialization.

3. Pretty much what what China did - open special economic zones for foreign investors.
 

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Nixon gets lost on his way to China and lands in New Delhi, opening a diplomatic & trade front with the US? Prior to his 1972 visit to Peking, "Made in China" in the US meant made in Taiwan (and for a long time after)
 
Dominion status in 30s , leads to Indian leaders more Western alienated and no socialist 3rd way, after Alt WW2 ,America and lesser extent Britain invests in India to stop it falling to communising become a manufacturing hub as well as core US ally in the region
 
You'd need the good old "No License Raj" scenario. There are a number of possibilities that could lead to this, such as no Partition and the death of Nehru and the rise of the capitalistic politician Sardar Vallabhai Patel to the premiership as a result. Such PODs would avoid the socialistic nature of India, what with its five year plans and what not, and would make India a Western-aligned state barring anything like a Suez Crisis-like thing totally destroying relations between the First and Third Worlds.
Because China obviously didn't try any of the socialism stuff...
 

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Nixon gets lost on his way to China and lands in New Delhi, opening a diplomatic & trade front with the US? Prior to his 1972 visit to Peking, "Made in China" in the US meant made in Taiwan (and for a long time after)
Can't work this way. Nixon was rabidly anti India.
 

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Can't work this way. Nixon was rabidly anti India.

Well, he wasn't real keen on either the Soviets or Red Chinese either. In any case, my comment was more tongue-in-cheek. Nixon messing about in India could easily be taken as an affront to a close ally.
 
Can't work this way. Nixon was rabidly anti India.

Perhaps a President Humphrey may be in order. If I remember correctly, he was at least partially pro-India, though I'm unsure if India would reciprocate such feelings.

Well, he wasn't real keen on either the Soviets or Red Chinese either.

India was a Soviet ally by the time of Nixon already - in the 1950s, Nehru felt snubbed that Eisenhower allied with Pakistan with the Baghdad Pact, and this naturally pushed India towards the USSR.
 
Made in India instead of made in China, how Western nations and large companies chose India instead of China to establish their factories and their businesses. How can we have done in India instead of made in China?
The problem is timing - make your market friendly reforms too soon and India will have developed too far and be too expensive when the 1980s roll around, too late and China steals a march on you. The Chinese boom was very reliant on the twin factors of containerisation helping slash transportation costs and the massive reductions of tariffs and quotas that was finally coming about leading to much freer trade.


Nixon gets lost on his way to China and lands in New Delhi, opening a diplomatic and trade front with the US?
A slight variation the Nationalists win the Chinese civil war, but not totally so that they control most of the country with a small Soviet supported People's Republic of China in Manchuria and the north-eastern part of Inner Mongolia. This creates a certain amount of distrust between China and the USSR so that they become either non-aligned or non-aligned yet Western leaning. The Nationalists institute their reforms and whilst not as successful as in Taiwan still leads to large improvements and an expanding economy, which will later price them out of the cheap manufacturing game. Nixon whilst not particularly fond of the Indians was very savvy in international affairs and being enough of a pragmatic bastard decides that breaking them away from their Soviet leaning position is what is required so goes there instead of China, or at least goes there before visiting China at a later date if he decides to try for the double.
 
Nixon whilst not particularly fond of the Indians was very savvy in international affairs and being enough of a pragmatic bastard decides that breaking them away from their Soviet leaning position is what is required so goes there instead of China, or at least goes there before visiting China at a later date if he decides to try for the double.

The issue with that is that India was already USSR-aligned by the time Nixon became POTUS. Perhaps, if he became president in 1960, he could break away India from gravitating towards the USSR, but 1969 is already too late. Remember, China was opened up because it had already split with the USSR. With India, that's not the case.
 
The problem is timing - make your market friendly reforms too soon and India will have developed too far and be too expensive when the 1980s roll around, too late and China steals a march on you. The Chinese boom was very reliant on the twin factors of containerisation helping slash transportation costs and the massive reductions of tariffs and quotas that was finally coming about leading to much freer trade.
Containerization for gigantic container ships, trucking, or both? Because yah, China has an advantage there as they can do what they had for centuries, funneling everything down their rivers and roads to certain ports, where loads of foreign ships then take them away. Probably a lot simpler to send everything across the Pacific than to send things from India to China or Angola, given the amount of land they would have to navigate around, even with similar distances.
 
Nixon gets lost on his way to China and lands in New Delhi, opening a diplomatic & trade front with the US? Prior to his 1972 visit to Peking, "Made in China" in the US meant made in Taiwan (and for a long time after)

"Henry, I said deli, not Delhi. I was in the mood for a turkey club on rye, dammit."
 
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