‘No other way to counter…’: Jaishankar says India must focus on manufacturing to compete with China on economic front

"If we have to compete with China, which we should, then its solution is that we should focus on manufacturing here. Our approach towards manufacturing has changed after Modiji came to power. Before that, people did not give much emphasis on manufacturing," said External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that to compete with China on the economic front, India should focus on manufacturing, a key sector which was ignored by governments before Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014. Speaking at a corporate summit on 'Bharat's Economic Rising' organised by the Southern…