According to a recent article, by 2016, the Chinese consumer durables major Haier will manufacture all of its products in India. This will shield Haier India from the rupee-dollar fluctuations and encourage faster growth. Their 40-acre facility in Pune currently holds imports from China such as refrigerators, televisions, washing machines,...
Does Europe sometimes deny Asian ascendance?
The latest Soft Power survey lists the United Kingdom (Great Britain) as having soft power that exceeds that of the United States in 2012 and this claim has gotten all the media attention. But I was struck by another oddity in the report: the absence of China, Russia and India...
Migration of People and Money to and from India
According the World Bank, there are 5.4 million immigrants in India making it the 10th largest host for immigrants. The United States is #1 with 42.8 million immigrants. The Bank's data also show that the China-USA and India-USA corridors are the 10th busiest immigration corridors in the world, with 1.7...
Huawei Technologies invests in India R&D center
Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei Technologies will invest $150 million in a one million square foot research and development coming up in Bangalore. Eventually capable of hosting up to 4,000 engineers, the company plans to begin supporting its next-gen mobile phone handsets from this location, according to BusinessLine. For example,...
China's Mountain Emeishan
Mount Emeishan – China’s official historical gate to India’s spiritual penetration, their child the Chinese Buddhist tradition, embodied in the nearby Leshan Buddah. At 3,099 metres (10,167 ft), Emeishan is the highest of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China. According to an article in China Expat, it was on...
India’s consumers top sustainability list, USA is last
The Washington DC based, National Geographic Society and Globescan ranked average consumers in 17 countries according to the environmental sustainability of their behavior. For the third time in a row, consumers in the large developing economies of Brazil, India and China have scored highest, while Canadians and Americans, with their...