India, March 9 -- Made in China.
Five years ago, the innocuous tag attached to so many of our purchases, from toys and electronics to clothes and the idols one might worship, acquired an entirely new meaning. And no, this wasn't about how the virus originated in China.
It was about how living through the pandemic, surviving it and overcoming it, required a high degree of Chinese commitment to abide by the rules of the game. It required China to be generous. At the very least, it required China to not leverage its centrality to the production of everything the world needed in that dark period (from pharmaceutical ingredients to masks, personal protective equipment and electronics), for political and strategic gain.
Guess what? China behav...