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India’s balancing act to attract more investment from China, U.S. and boost trade

The Hindu · 🇮🇳 public India · · 1300 words · By T C A Sharad Raghavan
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What to know about India’s balancing act to attract more investment from China, U.S. and boost trade

The Indian government has over the last few months been walking a tightrope between maintaining its strategic objectives and encouraging more trade and investment from the two largest economies in the world — the U.S.

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Coverage gap: Low Left coverage
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What happened

The Indian government has over the last few months been walking a tightrope between maintaining its strategic objectives and encouraging more trade and investment from the two largest economies in the world — the U.S.

Why it matters

and China This balancing act has seen gradual and incremental relaxations in several long-held policies of the government — whether it has to do with foreign direct investment (FDI) in e-commerce, allowing FDI from companies with Chinese ownership, or taking…

Common ground

Anti-dumping rejections Data compiled by the Centre for Digital Economy Policy (C-DEP) and shared with The Hindu shows that one arena in which this balancing act is playing out is in the manner in which the country uses its anti-dumping duties.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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Claim 1: “The draft report of the investigation released in June proposed a 12.5% tariff on India.”
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Claim 2: “cases that involved goods from China — either singularly, or as part of a group of countries — made up 72% of the total rejections between 2000 and December 2025.”
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One web search result explicitly contains the exact phrasing of the claim regarding 72% of total rejections involving goods from China between 2000 and December 2025. However, no other independent source corroborates this specific statistic.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is divided into 33 province-level divisions, including two special administrative regions. Beijing is the capital,…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The People's Republic of China (PRC) and the State of Israel formally established diplomatic relations in 1992. While the Republic of China had de jure recognized Israeli sovereignty in 1949, it event…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — China and Russia share one of the world's most important foreign relationships. Both nations share interest in energy cooperation, military ties, and geopolitical alignment in challenging the collecti…
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Claim 3: “the notification resulted in the U.S. imposing a final tariff of 10% on India, lower than what it had proposed.”
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Claim 4: “the Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Jitin Prasada told the Lok Sabha in February 2026 [that most goods imported from China are capital goods, intermediate goods and raw materials]”
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Claim 5: “In March 2026, the Union Cabinet approved a small dilution of this by allowing investments from companies with up to 10% Chinese ownership to enter the country through the automatic route.”
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Claim 6: “the Indian government notified a ban on the import of goods made using forced labour.”
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Claim 7: “In 2020... the Government had amended the FDI Policy to mandate that investment from companies in countries that share a land border with India can enter the country only following government approval.”
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Claim 8: “On July 23, the government diluted this rule by saying FDI would be allowed in e-commerce companies that hold inventory in India for the express purpose of exports.”
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Claim 9: “In March 2026, the U.S. government launched an investigation into whether 60 of its trade partners, including India, were doing enough to prevent the import of goods made using forced labour.”
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Claim 10: “It subsequently fell to 20.8% in 2023-24 and further to 6.1% in 2024-25, before rising again to 41.5% in 2025-26 up to December 31, 2025.”
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The evidence provided relates to a Rihanna album, dictionary definitions of 'anti', and general information about the month of December, providing no data on rejection rates.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — December is the 12th and final month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. December's name derives from the Latin word decem (meaning 10) because it was originall…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. It is known by a collection of names including: Saint Sylvester's Day, New Year's Eve or Old Year's Day/Night,…
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Claim 11: “finished goods such as telecom instruments have seen their share fall, from about 18% to 11%, over the same period of time.”
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The evidence provided relates to general trading partners, a trade fair in Canton, and an Armenian telecom company, with no data on the share of telecom instrument imports from China to India.
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web search NEUTRAL — Below is a list highlighting 15 of China’s top trading partners in terms of export sales. That is, these countries imported the most Chinese shipments by dollar value during 2025. Also shown is each i…
https://www.worldstopexports.com/chinas-top-import-partners/
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web search NEUTRAL — 4, 2026 (Toys & Children Baby and Maternity, Fashion, Home Textiles, Stationery, Health & Recreation, Traditional Chinese Specialties). Venue: China Import and Export Fair(Canton Fair) Complex. Openin…
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Claim 12: “Consumer electronics have seen their share in imports from China halve over the same period.”
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web search NEUTRAL — Uma nova geração de anúncios para a era da IA na busca O Google está lançando novos formatos de anúncio na Busca impulsionados pelo Gemini e expandindo o projeto-piloto de Ofertas Diretas para os cons…
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Claim 13: “the government in July issued an order allowing four companies with Chinese ownership or links to bid for projects tendered by the Indian government in the power sector.”
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Claim 14: “electronic components made up 3.3% of India’s imports from China in the first quarter of 2015-16. This has grown to nearly 13% as of the first quarter of 2026-27.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OnePlus TV is a brand of television manufactured by the Chinese consumer electronics company OnePlus. The OnePlus TV division is headed by the company CEO Pete Lau and TV Product Manager Todd Wang.
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Claim 15: “manufactured fertiliser saw its share fall from about 7.5% in 2015 to less than 1% in 2026.”
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web search NEUTRAL — May 25, 2026 · As a secure, super-fast, and free application, it allows you to share and receive files without any data consumption or quality loss. The highest speed reaches up to 42MB/s, making it 2…
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Claim 16: “the rejection rate increased to between 50-62% in each of the years 2020-21, 2021-22, and 2022-23.”
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Claim 17: “the DGTR made 1,052 such recommendations to the Ministry of Finance in the approximately 30 years between 1991 and 2020. Of these, the Finance Ministry had rejected just 5, or 0.5%.”
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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 28, 2026 · Between has been used of more than two items since Old English; it is especially appropriate to signify a one-to-one relationship, regardless of the number of items.
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