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India emerges as ASEAN's alternative to US and China for trade and tech

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India is positioning itself as a significant alternative for Southeast Asian nations seeking to diversify their trade, technology partnerships, and even defense ties away from the influence of both China and the US. Companies like Dry Tech Manufacturing, which sells food products under the Sheentaro brand, are exploring the Indian market due to its large population and openness to vegetarian ingredients, seeing it as a potentially larger market than China. This strategic move by India aims to offer ASEAN countries a new avenue for growth and collaboration amidst the ongoing geopolitical competition between the US and China. AI

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Sam Beltran ·

    Ready player 3: India offers Asean a US-China alternative

    At a food fair in New Delhi, a vegetable exporter from the Philippines set out its wares: bags of dried moringa and lemongrass, bundles of taro leaves and a bowl of laing, the creamy coconut-milk stew made from them. The question Dry Tech Manufacturing wanted to answer was simple…

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