Keji Mao is a research fellow at the International Cooperation Centre of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China, and a China Forum Expert.
The crippling disruption to Chinese supply lines has inspired talk of India capitalising on Covid-19 to boost its ‘Make in India’ push. But the challenge of setting up a suitable supply network, with the skilled workforce to operate it, is daunting even before India went into a lockdown of its own.