India slowly gears up for a US push to change supply chains

India slowly gears up for a US push to change supply chains
JD Vance has made it clear India is a key alliance for the US. (Image: X)
Dileepa Fonseka
It probably doesn’t surprise many that United States Vice President JD Vance was recently quoted as talking about “a sense of infinite possibility, of new homes to be built, new skylines to be raised, and lives to be enriched”. However, it was probably a little surprising to hear Vance saying this of a country that wasn’t his own.“In other countries I visited, it sometimes feels like there’s a flatness, a sameness, a desire to just be like everyone else in the world,” Vance said during a trip to In...

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