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Use of Huawei's equipment for 5G technology upgrade of India's telecom networks is seen as less of a cybersecurity threat in India and attractive in terms of its lower prices and technological advancement. U.S. efforts to prevent the use of Huawei's 5G networks equipment because of cyber security threat are hitting a roadblock in India where the cost of the upgrade to 5G is a major advantage with the Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei.

Germany is considering letting Huawei supply telecom equipment after its cybersecurity agency report showed Huawei could not siphon off sensitive data for use by the Chinese government. Data rates for 4G networks have been slashed in India by 90% with the introduction of the Jio network. Hundreds of millions of customers make India a large enough market for new 5G technologies to be attractive for China's Huawei, making it harder for the U.S. to block Huawei in other countries.

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Lenovo's efforts to increase sales in India and Brazil. Lenovo is the largest PC company in India with 15.8% market share in the first quarter of 2012. It has only 3.6% market share in Brazil and is planning to increase its market share in the Brazilian market. Its market share in China is 30%. Slowing sales in China is increasing the focus on growth in Latin America. Lenovo's head of Asia-Pacific and Latin America, Milko van Duijl says Lenovo will have to build a manufacturing presence in Brazil to be successful there. Lenovo is now the second largest in PC sales worldwide after H-P.

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See Hamm 6/25/07 BW for how hiring by the likes of wipro and infosys in the US is reversing outsourcing phenomena. For Infosys it helps to be closer to customers in the US as it expands further. In this case of startups and smaller companies that setup shop in Bangalore to tap the lower wages there this is turning out to be no longer true as wages are rising and have reached 75% of US wages in the example given here.

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Mr. Ambani's Jio company is targeting both ends of the pyramid. It is investing $25 billion on a 5G network coming in late 2023. At the lower end a new $12 mobile phone calld JioBharat by India's largest telecom provider aims to reach 250 million people who use 2G mobile phones. Mobile phone penetration in India is about 46% in 2021, up from 17% in 2016, according to World Bank. This is largely due to the efforts of Mr. Ambani who built a 4G network from scratch and has 440 million subscribers with some of the lowest data rates in the world. The new phone has a smaller screen, physical keyboard, camera and runs on 4G. 

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Mr. Trump's 2 day visit to India marks the beginning of a period with closer trade and defense relations. Mr. Trump visited Ahmedabad, Gujarat, including the Sabarmati Ashram of Mohandas Gandhi. He also visited the Taj Mahal in Agra. Mr. Trump is popular in India and received a rock star reception at the Sardar Vallabhbhai stadium in Ahmedabad, the largest cricket stadium in the world.

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India wins the second Test at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai over New Zealand by 372 runs, its biggest run win in cricket history.

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Glimpses of the Airshow for India's Republic Day in New Delhi in this video with president Macron of France attending the event.