{"id":1020122,"date":"2026-07-11T08:28:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T02:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020122"},"modified":"2026-07-11T08:45:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:15:43","slug":"vivo-dixon-deal-approval-reveals-indias-new-china-playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/11\/vivo-dixon-deal-approval-reveals-indias-new-china-playbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivo-Dixon deal approval reveals India&#8217;s new China playbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government&#8217;s approval for Vivo Mobile India and Dixon Technologies to set up a joint venture has significance far beyond smartphone manufacturing. On the surface, it clears a long-pending proposal involving one of India&#8217;s largest electronics manufacturers and one of the country&#8217;s biggest smartphone brands. But the decision also offers the clearest indication yet of how India&#8217;s approach to Chinese-linked investments is evolving. <\/p>\n<p>For years, discussions around Press Note 3 have largely been about restrictions and scrutiny of Chinese investment. Yet a series of approvals over the last two years suggests that India is no longer viewing Chinese participation in manufacturing through a binary framework of acceptance or rejection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government&#8217;s approval for Vivo Mobile India and Dixon Technologies to set up a joint venture has significance far beyond smartphone manufacturing. On the surface, it clears a long-pending proposal involving one of India&#8217;s largest electronics manufacturers and one of the country&#8217;s biggest smartphone brands. But the decision also offers the clearest indication yet of how India&#8217;s approach to Chinese-linked investments is evolving. For years, discussions around Press Note 3 have largely been about restrictions and scrutiny of Chinese investment. Yet a series of approvals over the last two years suggests that India is no longer viewing Chinese participation in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020147,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020122\/revisions\/1020147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}