Lol nobody cares about corona, and paid protestors can be arranged, like they always are.
You're right but, nachne do unko, kya ukhad lenge.
Japanese are memes and are into the most esoteric sections of manufacturing.
The only Japanese company with 5G capabilities is NEC and it is a minor player.
Most high end and High tech technology you use today is now controlled by Korean or Taiwanese companies( aside from Uncle Sam ofc ).
Huawei own a lot of patents related to the 5G standard, so if you're doing "traditional 5G" and not JIOs OpenRAN software based 5G, you have to pay Huawei royalties for patents also.
Nokia and Ericcson have already bended over and pledged to make 5G equipment here in India, but this is an assembly job mainly, no ToT or JV involved i think.
Samsung is apparently setting up a factory to manufacture smartphone displays, and i think they already have a PCB manufacturing section in that huge complex in Noida.
Fabs for flash memory can also be set up provided GoI gives strong monetary support in the form of a JV
Whatever Samsung does will be much more and better than Xiaomeme and BBK electronics, both only assemble phones here because of the danda of duties and taxes and the amount they sell here.