Ban china and shift industry to India says American congressman, Ted Yoho

The US position on China seems to be getting tougher. Now, a US congressman has said that industries in China should be shifted to India. Therefore, there is another option in the world besides China. Of the U.S. House of Representatives and a subcommittee of the State Department.

n an exclusive conversation with India Today, US Congressman Ted Yoho, Lead Republican for the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and Nonproliferation said the coronavirus pandemic has made the world realise the dependence on China and how that can have a crippling affect on the economy.

Engaging diplomats of like-minded nations, the US is drawing up a plan to move manufacturing of major products from China to India, including back home to further President Trump’s ‘America First’ policy.

"We want to establish our business in other friendly countries like India," Ted said. If that happens, China's dominance will be destroyed and we will have many options. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is running the Make in India program in India.

Giving an example of how China withheld PPEs when the world needed them the most, Congressman Yoho said, “This is a danger of supply chains being there obviously and that’s why we have talked to your ambassadors about moving supply chains to India and other like-minded allies of ours that have the same philosophy in life.”

India has been working to strengthen the ‘Make In India’ platform in order to invite investments into India.

On May 12, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in an address to the nation, “Time has taught us that we must make 'local' the mantra of our lives. Global brands that are there today were once local too. But when people there started supporting them, they became global. That is why from today, every Indian must become vocal for our local,"

Ted Yoho added that there was a need to put more economic pressure on China, in addition to cutting off the supply chain that Beijing is a critical part of be it rare earth metals or vitamins and minerals that go into livestock feed to the APIs.

“There is a rapid movement of removing these APIs and the manufacturing of that out of China to trusted allies like India, bring them back home domestically. All that is going to be economic pain on Xi Jinping and the communist party”, he said.

The US lawmaker has also suggested that the world should snap ties with China till they mend their way while speaking about their actions outside and within China, against their own people.

“I would recommend that all ties with China be cut-off until they start playing by the normal standards of the world. I don’t expect them to be like US or India but I expect them to be respectful and honour human rights”, he said.