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Time of India
36 minutes ago
- Time of India
US defense bill proposes examination of Apple display supplier
A measure added into a massive U.S. defense spending bill in recent weeks will, if passed, ask the Pentagon to determine whether one of Apple's display suppliers should be listed as a Chinese military company. Being on the list does not block companies from doing business in the U.S. but will in coming years block them from being part of the U.S. military's supply chain. The bill, known as the National Defense Authorization Act, was approved in July by key committees in both houses of the U.S. Congress. The final bill, considered a "must-pass" because it funds the U.S. military, is expected to become law later in the year. When the bill was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee, a newly added amendment for the first time asked the U.S. Defense Department to consider whether BOE Technology Group Co, listed on Apple's official suppliers list, should be added to a list of firms that allegedly aid China's military. BOE and Apple did not respond to requests for comment. Craig Singleton, a China expert at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington think-tank, said Beijing had offered billions of dollars in subsidies, tax breaks and loans to help firms such as BOE dominate global panel production. "This creates a single-source vulnerability that could be easily exploited to disrupt or degrade U.S. military operations, not to mention undermine commercial supply chains, during a conflict or period of heightened bilateral tension with Beijing," Singleton added. A study published last month by New York-based NERA Economic Consulting and commissioned by BOE's U.S. subsidiary found that the display industry, which includes major Korean players such as Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, remains highly competitive, with no single player capable of significantly affecting global prices. "There is no credible risk of a supply chain disruption by mainland China display manufacturers," the report said.
NDTV
39 minutes ago
- NDTV
Higher Paychecks To Safer Streets: Indian Man In Sweden Explains Why NRIs Don't Return, Viral Post Sparks Debate
An Indian man living in Sweden has sparked a conversation online after sharing a detailed, honest post explaining why many Indians don't return home after moving abroad. It all started after an X user, Dr Rajeshwari Iyer, shared a post, drawing a sharp contrast between Chinese and Indian students in the United States. "China builds China. Indians help build America," she wrote, urging introspection among the Indian diaspora. This is when the NRI man, named Ankur, shared a detailed post explaining why staying overseas is often the more practical choice. "It's very HARD to return to India because life is much better in US and Europe. a quick reminder why Indians don't come back permanently and why it's easier to stay abroad," he wrote. He then listed more than 10 reasons why many NRIs choose not to come back, from higher salaries and reliable infrastructure to safer environment and cleaner air. "Higher paychecks and better living; Reliable basics: 24x7 power, clean water, fast internet; Merit-centric workplaces over 'who-you-know' games; Safer streets, cleaner air, stronger social safety nets; keep spouses employed at least in EUROPE; Kids can go top-tier schools without quota gymnastics; Dense Indian networks in Bay Area, Seattle, NYC etc.. which I missed in EU; Dollar savings + stock options supercharge wealth compounding; Easier global mobility with a EU passport down the line," he wrote. It's very HARD to return to India because life is much better in US and Europe. a quick reminder why Indians don't come back permanently and why it's easier to stay abroad - Higher paychecks and better living - Reliable basics: 24×7 power, clean water, fast internet -… — Ankur💻🎧💪 (@TheAnkurTyagi) August 1, 2025 He further listed the challenges within India that drive Indian talent away. These included corruption, chaotic traffic systems, beaurecractic red tape and lack of civic sense. "Red-tape 'babu culture' that burns weeks/months for one stamp; Civic sense: litter, spitting, broken footpaths nobody owns; Chaos-first traffic; lane markings are jokes here hardly 1% people can even understand traffic signs board I can guarantee; Low trust society endless notarizations, photocopies, and self-attested forms. I sold my apartment last month as an NRI and shared my experience check my timeline; Bribe only can push your plan and company and cash-under-the-table shortcuts to get work done; Power cuts, water shortages, and patchy public transport; Hooliganism & moral-policing mobs that flare without warning; Hyper-competitive school quotas + rote-learning grind; Pollution levels that turn morning jogs into lung workouts; Bureaucratic flip-flops on policy, tax, and import rules; The most important: No safety worries for women after dark - 99% Indian women's never want to come back permanently," he wrote. Concluding his post, Ankur said, "magnets abroad feel stronger than the anchors at home and hence as an NRI it's an emotional yet balance decision most of us have to make." "It's not many people don't want to come back home but it's the dynamics in India and within family if they look at their spouse and kids future generations. And China is way ahead than India. just visit China once and you'll never ask this question again," he added. The post has promoted varied reactions. While some agreed with him, others offered counter-narratives. "Nailed It Ankur. Perfectly tells the state," one user wrote. "It will take time, but it is slowly but surely getting better," commented another. "Agree with everything except faster internet abroad," said a third user. However, one user wrote, "I live in a village with 24/7 power, renewable energy, clean air, affordable fast internet, fresh water from the ground, close to nature, affordable healthcare. Most of your points stand inaccurate. Except for big pay cheques, I won't agree with you." "Safer street wow half safer you can say not full because in UK you have to be very careful of phone theft and in Some European countries have this problem because of Illegal immigrants," commented another.
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First Post
2 hours ago
- First Post
Why India is a spoke in the Trump-Xi wheel
The emergence of India as a significant economic and military power is a complication in the G2 global power duopoly read more No one likes an impoverished former colony becoming the world's fourth-largest economy. At Independence in 1947, India had a minuscule GDP of Rs. 2.70 lakh crore. By the end of 2025, India's GDP is projected by the IMF to be Rs. 360 lakh crore ($4.19 trillion). This would make India not only the world's fourth-largest economy but also, at an annual growth rate of 6.5 per cent, the world's fastest-growing major economy. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD All of these rankles in two global capitals: Washington and Beijing. US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are resigned to battling each other in a long, drawn-out Second Cold War. The emergence of India as a significant economic and military power is a complication in this G2 global power duopoly. Trump's punitive tariff rate of 25 per cent on Indian exports, along with an unspecified penalty for buying oil and military equipment from Russia, reflects Washington's angst. India's economy is still too small—one-fifth China's size and one-seventh America's—to be an immediate concern to either. But both know that, over the next decade, India will be the only country outside the G2 that can swing the balance of global power between the US-led West and the China-led East. India is therefore in the awkward position of being both an ally and a threat to the G2. The recent thaw in India's relations with China is aimed at lowering the bilateral temperature between Beijing and Delhi. China is meanwhile quietly pleased at the tension between the US and India over trade tariffs. Washington has pivoted away from India in Trump's second term. It wants to keep India in the Western camp but is annoyed at India's independent streak over foreign and trade policy. The tariff attack is meant to place pressure on India to toe its geopolitical line. Russia is a red flag. Legislation imposing 100 per cent secondary sanctions on India for buying Russian crude will come up before the House of Representatives when it reconvenes in September. But saner minds in Washington know that India can easily replace the 2.1 million barrels of oil it buys per day from Russia with crude from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and South America. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD As India's Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said, India bought just 0.1 per cent of its total crude from Russia before 2022. It can go back to near-zero again. The world is awash in oil as demand in China tapers amid its move towards green fuels. The US and China, as they contest global supremacy well into the 2030s, have both tried to weaken India's resolve. China infiltrated across the Line of Actual Control (LAC) on multiple occasions before opting for a more calibrated strategy after India exhibited military force. Significantly, Beijing did not block the UN Security Council's condemnation last week of Pakistani terror group TRF (an LeT offshoot). The UNSC, using strong language, said the TRF was responsible for the Pahalgam attack. Future world order? In his new book The Once and Future World Order, Amitav Acharya, distinguished professor of international relations at American University in Washington, DC, argues that the US-led Western world order was a continuation of older world orders—including civilisations in India and China. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Acharya says that as the West declines, the 'Rest' will form a multiplicity of global power blocs. That does not align with the US-China construct of a G2 world. While Washington and Beijing are discomfited by a rising India, some commentators in India downplay the decline of the West that Acharya accurately portrays and underplay the rise of the Rest. For example, C Raja Mohan, distinguished fellow at the Council of Defence and Strategic Research, wrote in The Indian Express on July 30: 'Acharya's critique of Western dominance is compelling, but not all aspects of the Western legacy can or should be discarded. The Enlightenment ideals of the 17th and 18th centuries—reason, scepticism, science, individual liberty, and secularisation of society away from religious dominance—are at the very foundation of Western primacy in the last three centuries." 'If the East wishes to lead in shaping the world order, it must engage these ideals critically and constructively. Any notion that the East can rise by short-circuiting these values is an illusion. It only delays and derails the effort to rise. The battles against political, religious, and other absolutisms remain to be fought and won in the East. Until then, a rising East will not present an alternative model—only a different and less attractive one. The profound internal contradictions within and across the East will continue to keep it well behind the West.' STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD This is the sort of commentary Western institutions use to buttress their own thesis of Western supremacy in a Trump-led world. In Raja Mohan's article, the West is lauded for its 'reason, scepticism, individual liberty, and secularisation of society' without a word (beyond the solitary reference to 'exploitation') pointing out the other contributory factors for the West's rise: rapacious colonialism, the transatlantic slave trade, and extra-territorial invasions. All occurred after the Age of Enlightenment. Acharya's conclusions of a 'multiplex' global order might be an old idea wrapped in a new cover, but it stays honest to the history of the West and the Rest. The rise of China, for example, is inevitable. So is India's over a longer period. The two Asian powers may meanwhile reach a modus vivendi over the next few critical years. By 2035, the combined GDP of China ($30 trillion) and India ($8 trillion) will equal the estimated US GDP at the time ($38 trillion). STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD The G2 could then morph into a G2+1 before becoming a full-fledged G3. It is not a prospect either Washington or Beijing relishes. The writer is an editor, author and publisher. Views expressed in the above piece are personal and solely those of the author. They do not necessarily reflect Firstpost's views.
