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S8 Ep908: PREVIEW for Later Today: Sadanand Dhume discusses India's efforts to attract supply chains from China. While Apple has successfully diversified iPhone production there, India struggles to compete with more nimble nations like Vietnam in other various econ

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John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 2 minutes

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PREVIEW for Later Today: Sadanand Dhume discusses India's efforts to attract supply chains from China. While Apple has successfully diversified iPhone production there, India struggles to compete with more nimble nations like Vietnam in other various economic sectors.

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colleague Sartan Dume of the Wall Street Journal and the Council on Foreign Relations about

1:09.8

India and the ambition to move much

1:13.5

of the supply chain from the People's Republic of China where it's vulnerable to brutality

1:19.1

to India and Sadanon has a mixed opinion of that underway. Some parts of the sector, some sectors work, some don't. Here's

1:30.2

Sardana to explain. More of this tonight. You know, I think it varies from sector to sector,

1:36.3

for example, on, you know, iPhone manufacturing. That's certainly been a part of the story

1:40.2

where Apple has diversified quite successfully to India. But in other sectors of the economy, I think, you know, other smaller, more nimble countries

1:48.8

like Vietnam have been more competitive.

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