With Donald Trump threatening fresh and China rates ready to flood world markets with cheap exports, Zoho’s founder, Sridhar Vembu, has published a strong warning: “We will face a Chinese goods attack … Navigating this will be a huge challenge.”

In a seven -point note published in X, Vembu exposed what he calls a survival model for India in the midst of a worldwide fracture order. From food and energy self-sufficiency to factory sprints and rupee-based trade, its message is urgent: India must act decisively, not only to protect yourself, but also to lead where others can fall.

1. Food security comes first
“Fortunately, India is self -sufficient in food and we need to safeguard our food safety,” he says. But self -confidence is not enough. As the poorest nations face increased stress, India argues, has to grow more to help those who slide in food crises. “This is our dharma as Bharat.”

It indicates the diplomacy of the vaccine of the country during the test as evidence of what this dissemination can achieve.

2. Links energy with food and is sustainable
“Energy is food,” says Vembu, emphasizing how modern agriculture depends on fertilizers and machinery derived from fossil fuels. Although India currently benefits from healthy ties with oil export nations, calls for long -term investments in sustainable agriculture.

This means that R&D in water management, livestock and plant ecosystems, electric farm machines, and critically, private model farms and training centers.

3. Operation by China’s overload
China, he warns, is not dedicated to commercial aggressions by force, but “despair in the face of mass excavation.” The result? A global glut of everything, from steel to EV.

Suggests a counter -stress:

“Negotiation to pay Chinese imports to Rupees can be a good starting point … which can also push their companies to buy us.”

In a wider way, the renegotiation of the depreciation of external debt to the rupees could increase the call for the export of India. “The world will probably be more receptive now,” he adds.

4. A sprint of 3 to 5 years to build factories
“We need a 3-5-year sprint to build factories everywhere,” writes Vembu. Importers and distributors of foreign goods must be pushed to make locally, with government incentives, sweetening the change.

Its proposal: allows the factories the first -year factories that are created in the backward districts and a reduction of 50% elsewhere to quickly follow up.

5. Capital goods imported, not consumer goods
India should prioritize the import of machinery and equipment that allow production, not end user consumer goods. “And negotiates to pay those capital goods in the rupees,” he adds, to his broader push for local currency leverage in trade.

6. Make private R&D be the next revolution
India must increase its GDP R&D proportion to 3% over the next 5-10 years, promoted mainly by the private sector. Vembu suggests an “CSR obligation” to finance R&D, along with rapid reductions for R&D -related capital spending.

7. Share knowledge, do not get it
As India invest in innovation, it also has to raise others, Demand Vembu. “They do not have the great human resources to invent what we do,” he writes.

“When we begin to invent -we have to share more than. This is the only way to a more just and stable global order. This is our Dharma as Bharat.”