Tesla and Apple drive U.S. corporate pivot to India

Key companies pursue large investments in decoupling from China

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Apple CEO Tim Cook greets customers at the company's first directly operated store in India in Mumbai on April 18. (Photo by Rohan Mistry)

TAKAFUMI HOTTA and RYOSUKE HANADA, Nikkei staff writers

NEW YORK/MUMBAI -- From Tesla to Apple, leading U.S. corporations are accelerating their push into India as an alternative production hub to China amid protracted tensions between Washington and Beijing.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New York on Tuesday. The electric vehicle maker is reportedly in talks with New Delhi to set up a factory in India, expanding a production network that spans the U.S., China, Germany and Mexico.

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