The Sensible Boycott | #BoycottChina | #AtmanirbharBharat | #BulletKaJawabWalletSe | Teknocks
Channel: TEKNOCKS
Date: 2020-07-13

Covid19 has spread across more than 200 countries; infected approx 12 million people, and caused the death of half a million people in the world. It started from Wuhan, China and due to negligence or deliberate hiding of information from Chinese authorities, it has been spread like a fire across the world. Further, it is quite surprising that apart from Vuhan and nearby areas, all other parts of China remained uninfected either in reality or as portrayed by the Govt of China. This works as a seed of #BoycottChina movement across the globe and starts trending as a chorus against China.

Later in India, the virus outbreak started even upon so many preventive steps have been taken by authorities. People of India are also in anger against China. Meantime, #BoycottChina movement further fueled up as the Hon. Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi has announced #AtmanirbharBharat campaign in his address to the nation and ​gave a clarion call for “Be Vocal for Local”​.

#AtmanirbharBharat has literally become a trend in India and inflammatory exasperation was more specifically targeted towards our immediate neighbour, China. ​People started posting social media   updates, anti-china rallies were on full swing. On other hand, China has tried for encroachment in Indian territory at Galwan Wally which resulted in a fight between Chinese and Indian army, causing the death of approx 20 Indian soldiers and 40 Chinese soldiers. This incidence provoked #boycottchina twitter trend, anti-china rallies, vandalizing Chinese stores, removal of Chinese apps from cellphones and so on.

But the million-dollar question is whether India can boycott China in real and if yes how is it possible? Before jumping into any details and discuss the matter further, let’s look at some facts and figures to understand the details of trade between these 2 Asian giants. China and India are doing approx $100 billion business and as per 2019 data, India exports goods to China worth approx $18 billion (INR 1.2 Lac Crores) and imports goods worth approx $72 billion (INR 5.2 Lac Crores) from China. Thus, India is more dependent on China rather China depends on India. Further, China exports approx 6% of its total export value to India, and India imports a total of 13.8% of its total Import value from China. Hence, the question is how to reduce such high dependency and make #AtmanirbharBharat a reality?

For the same, India’s renowned scientist and educationist Mr. Sonam Wangchuk has started a campaign namely “​Answer to Bullet by Wallet​” to counter the Chinese products in India. In fact, he was the first person who has started a #BoycottChina campaign and has divided India’s dependency on China into 4 broader categories.

Chinese Softwares and Applications in Indian Market
Chinese Finished Products sold in India Market
Chinese Raw Materials/Components/Spare Parts used in Indian Industries
Chinese Investment in Indian firms
Let’s discuss in details and the views are not exactly in line with Mr. Sonam Wangchuk’s opinion and at some places it varies from what he is proposing. Before discussing the same, I would like to discuss the most important 5​th​ category for which Mr. Sonam Wangchuk has not given his opinion.

Some hypocritic Nationalists have found out 1 more category and that is Chinese Food! Yes, you read it right, I am not kidding! –Such people have vandalized the Chinese food serving restaurants and food parlours without even knowing that it is a completely indigenous business where all raw materials used in the product manufacturing, people who are preparing the same and customers who are paying for the same are Indians only. On top of it, they even don’t know that nobody in China is eating such so-called “ Indian Chinese Food” as it is completely Indian food. So, I request everyone that don’t do this and allow as well as support such people, who are running their business and households by selling such foods.

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