Chinese smartphone sold off within minutes during Boycott China craziness

[lonelyman]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...s-little-to-damp-chinese-phone-sales-in-india


OnePlus, a China-based smartphone maker, saw its latest model sold off within minutes in India on Thursday, despite growing calls for boycott of Chinese goods following a border conflict between the Asian neighbors.

The OnePlus 8 Pro mobile phone, which is priced at a significant discount to Apple Inc.’s latest iPhones, was not available on Amazon.com Inc.’s local website just a few minutes after it went on sale. At the same time, #BoycottChineseProducts was among the top Twitter trends in India for almost two days, after the nation’s army said at least 20 of its soldiers lost their lives in a violent standoff with Chinese troops in a contested Himalayan border.

Read: Modi Vows to Defend India Sovereignty After Deadly China Clashes

The pace of sales show that weaning away Indians from feature-rich and cheaply priced Chinese products is easier said than done. India relies on China for the bulk of its imports, with purchases in the year ended March running into more than $60 billion. Beijing runs a trade surplus of about $50 billion with New Delhi.

While Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday said the nation will reduce dependence on imports, Ramdas Athawale, a member of Modi’s ministerial panel, went so far as to call for a ban on even restaurants that prepare Chinese food.

Restaurants selling Chinese food should be banned. I appeal to people to boycott Chinese food: Union Minister Ramdas Athawale pic.twitter.com/PoY0Udfule

 

[lonelyman]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...s-little-to-damp-chinese-phone-sales-in-india


OnePlus, a China-based smartphone maker, saw its latest model sold off within minutes in India on Thursday, despite growing calls for boycott of Chinese goods following a border conflict between the Asian neighbors.

The OnePlus 8 Pro mobile phone, which is priced at a significant discount to Apple Inc.’s latest iPhones, was not available on Amazon.com Inc.’s local website just a few minutes after it went on sale. At the same time, #BoycottChineseProducts was among the top Twitter trends in India for almost two days, after the nation’s army said at least 20 of its soldiers lost their lives in a violent standoff with Chinese troops in a contested Himalayan border.

Read: Modi Vows to Defend India Sovereignty After Deadly China Clashes

The pace of sales show that weaning away Indians from feature-rich and cheaply priced Chinese products is easier said than done. India relies on China for the bulk of its imports, with purchases in the year ended March running into more than $60 billion. Beijing runs a trade surplus of about $50 billion with New Delhi.

While Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday said the nation will reduce dependence on imports, Ramdas Athawale, a member of Modi’s ministerial panel, went so far as to call for a ban on even restaurants that prepare Chinese food.

Restaurants selling Chinese food should be banned. I appeal to people to boycott Chinese food: Union Minister Ramdas Athawale pic.twitter.com/PoY0Udfule

haha Indians

 

[HalfMoon]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...s-little-to-damp-chinese-phone-sales-in-india


OnePlus, a China-based smartphone maker, saw its latest model sold off within minutes in India on Thursday, despite growing calls for boycott of Chinese goods following a border conflict between the Asian neighbors.

The OnePlus 8 Pro mobile phone, which is priced at a significant discount to Apple Inc.’s latest iPhones, was not available on Amazon.com Inc.’s local website just a few minutes after it went on sale. At the same time, #BoycottChineseProducts was among the top Twitter trends in India for almost two days, after the nation’s army said at least 20 of its soldiers lost their lives in a violent standoff with Chinese troops in a contested Himalayan border.

Read: Modi Vows to Defend India Sovereignty After Deadly China Clashes

The pace of sales show that weaning away Indians from feature-rich and cheaply priced Chinese products is easier said than done. India relies on China for the bulk of its imports, with purchases in the year ended March running into more than $60 billion. Beijing runs a trade surplus of about $50 billion with New Delhi.

While Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday said the nation will reduce dependence on imports, Ramdas Athawale, a member of Modi’s ministerial panel, went so far as to call for a ban on even restaurants that prepare Chinese food.

Restaurants selling Chinese food should be banned. I appeal to people to boycott Chinese food: Union Minister Ramdas Athawale pic.twitter.com/PoY0Udfule

LoL

 

[TruthHurtz]

Oneplus is good, I had one back in 2015.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

 

[52051]

OnePlus is a very affordable mobile phone, most Chinese prefer Huawei phones now, but they are very expensive by Indians' living standard, so affordable brands like Xiaomi, Redmi and Oneplus are very popular here, very understandable.

And don't celebrate this as a Chinese, Chinese just selling the kind of weapons that indian internet warriors will use to kill Chinese in the battlefiled like youtube, wiki and twitters, how shortsighted we are

 

[Ali Tariq]

LoL

Hey, hope don't mind me asking, are you really Indian?

 

[HalfMoon]

Hey, hope don't mind me asking, are you really Indian?

Yes

 

[Ali Tariq]

Yes

Ummm, ok.

 

[rott]

Yes

I thought you were a Kashmiri.

 

[HalfMoon]

I thought you were a Kashmiri.

No. I am from Hyderabad.

 

[obj 705A]

LMAO just wtf is wrong with Indians, big mouth Indians all talk no action not even on something as simple as not buying a phone.

 

[Rizwan Alam]

They bought just for the research purpose.

Or may be they will teach a lesson to China by purchasing all the phones and then not using them..

 

[Death Professor]

What more could you expect? They consider cow to be at the same place as their mother and India is the second largest exporter of beef. They have been selling their holy mothers all this time and you think they are gonna grow some backbone to boycott chinese products?

 

[Flash_Ninja]

LMAO just wtf is wrong with Indians, big mouth Indians all talk no action not even on something as simple as not buying a phone.

This is actually 8D chess from modi. You see when all indians buy chinese smartphones they are investing billions into chinese economy, so when china acts to big modi ji can simply pull those billions out and force them to surrender