Taiwan is and will be India's most trusted partner, says Foxconn CEO

The world's largest electronics maker is keen to show that its India plans are on track. That is understandable because Foxconn needs India as much as India needs Foxconn

The bonhomie was apparent.

On July 28, Foxconn Chairman Young Liu was speaking at the Semicon India conclave in Gandhinagar. “Taiwan is and will be your (India’s) most trusted and reliable partner,” he said in an apparent promise to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was in attendance.
 

Modi smiled as Liu said he was responding to a discussion he had with the Prime Minister, who said the word IT, usually short for information technology, had been redefined as “India and Taiwan”.

The bonhomie came in the wake of potential acrimony. Less than three weeks earlier, on July 10, Foxconn, the