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This is CBS, I'm the world. I'm John Batcher. India, the Republic of India, a vast and

important part of the future of manufacturing, of trade, of Asia. However, the question

raised now is India in a position to absorb the supply chain that no longer is trustworthy

in China. Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang is with me and we're very, very keen on the response

by Cleopascal of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, who's been our guide on the

subcontinent for some time, especially the ability of the India government to shed its

old ways from the 20th century when it was dominated by socialist even Marxist thinking.

Cleopatra, a very good day to you. The headline in Business Insider is promising but not

conclusive. India is trying to become the new factory of the world, but it could take

more than a global pandemic to unseat China from its 40-year reign. I have read mixed approaches

to this same story. Your measure, Cleop, is India changing its ways, the bureaucracy? Is

it acknowledging that it must change its ways? Good evening, too.

Yes, well, I had. I mean, since Prime Minister Modi came in quite a few changes had been

made at the federal level, but also it's worth remembering that India is very much federated

functionally. So some states have always been much more business-friendly than others

and very dynamic and growing, but the idea of getting rid of thousands and thousands of

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