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India's China reset: the case for reopening a strategic economic dialogue
An IPS officer arrested in a Hyderabad fake-drugs case puts Indian pharmaceutical supply chains back on the front page. The corruption story is real, and so is the upstream dependence on Chinese APIs that makes the case structurally significant.

Sources
- [Indian Express / Telegram wire, 2026-07-01] Fake drugs racket: IPS officer arrested for seeking Rs 3 crore to 'fix' CBI case (https://ift.tt/rSUVgB7)
- Desk note: Indian Express's framing of this column is editorial rather than wire. Baru writes as a former insider with a known point of view. We have treated the column as a primary opinion document and have not padded the source ledger with material the pipeline did not read.
Desk note: Where wire play is dominated by the corruption narrative, we foregrounded the API-supply-chain reading and treated Baru's reset argument as a useful realist prompt rather than as gospel.
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