India requires institutional reforms to achieve a “big leap” in defense self-reliance

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India is taking steps to become self-reliant in defense production, after disruptions to the global supply chain due to the pandemic. Foreign direct investment in defense production has increased to 74 percent, from 49 percent, and the government says it will promote “made in India” in that industry. That was one of the steps outlined by the country’s finance minister after Prime Minister Modi announced a special economic package of more than 300 billion dollars under its “Self-Reliance Campaign.”

Defense and strategic analysts based in the United States and India told The Epoch Times that India’s pursuit of self-reliance is the right step in an emerging global and Asian regional order where India is facing a more aggressive China on its border on one side and Pakistan on the other. The country can take clues from countries like the United States, France, and Russia. Following a bloody skirmish with China in Galwan, India’s defense ministry declared in August that the country would build a stronger domestic defense industry.

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