, Columnist
Bye, Tariff Man. Biden’s India Play Must Be Apps
The U.S. needs to help Modi bring down the barriers and make a potential ally safe for Silicon Valley.
The end of the Modi-Trump bromance may be better for business.
Photographer: Bloomberg
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For all the hype around “Howdy Modi” and “Namaste Trump,” the U.S.-India economic relationship has been backsliding the last four years. To move forward, Joe Biden must steer the conversation away from tariffs, an obsession of his predecessor.
The big opportunity for the likes of Apple Inc., Facebook Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google is in India’s still nascent but rapidly growing digital economy: smartphone penetration of 32%, compared with 61% in China. Silicon Valley deserves to be high up in the incoming president’s priorities.