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Apple’s quiet pivot to India

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Michael Acton in San Francisco and John Reed in Bengaluru and Chennai

As Donald Trump was preparing to take office for the first time in 2017, Priyank Kharge was busy making calls to Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California, from Bengaluru, the city known as India’s Silicon Valley.

With the US president threatening to unleash a wave of tariffs against China, Kharge, the information technology minister of the southern state of Karnataka, seized the opportunity to woo one of the world’s biggest

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