the New York Times is reporting that President Bush is urging Americans to embrace globalization and the loss of American jobs to those countries in the far east.

This has also been a big problem in the Uk. Many major companies have sourced manufacturing and call centres in such countries as India. To hide the extent of this the UK Government has employed thousands of people in various government departments and local authorities.

By ELISABETH BUMILLER Published: March 3, 2006 NEW DELHI, March 3 — President Bush met with Indian entrepreneurs and toured an agricultural university during a four-hour trip to the southern city of Hyderabad today, when he said that the United States should welcome rather than fear competition from India.

“People do lose jobs as a result of globalization and it’s painful for those who lose jobs,” Mr. Bush said at meeting with young entrepreneurs at Hyderabad’s Indian School of Business, one of the premier schools of its kind in India. Nonetheless, the president said, “globalization provides great opportunities.”

Mr. Bush, reiterating a theme of his trip, strongly defended the outsourcing of American jobs to India as the reality of a global economy, and said that the United States should instead focus on India as a vital new market for American goods. Hyderabad is a center of India’s booming high-tech industry, and was also on President Bill Clinton’s itinerary when he visited India in 2000.

“The classic opportunity for our American farmers and entrepreneurs and small businesses to understand is there is a 300 million-person market of middle class citizens here in India, and that if we can make a product they want, that it becomes viable,” Mr. Bush said at the business school.

At an earlier stop at Hyderabad’s Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Mr. Bush watched Indian women in saris hand-till the soil around tomatoes, peanuts and soybeans. One of the women gave Mr. Bush a thumbs’-up sign as he walked past. The president also viewed a water buffalo and some Indian handcrafts.

Shops in the city’s predominately Muslim Charminar quarter were closed in protest of the president’s visit, the Associated Press reported. Several hundred communist and Muslim demonstrators chanted “Bush go home” and carried posters of Osama bin Laden.

Mr. Bush returned to New Delhi later in the day to deliver an outdoor evening speech at the city’s Purana Qila, a 16th century fort built by the Afghan conqueror Sher Sha Suri. In the speech, billed as the major address of Mr. Bush’s trip to India, Mr. Bush spoke of the “natural partnership” between the United States and India, including the major nuclear pact that he and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India announced in New Delhi on Thursday.

The pact, which fills in the broad outlines of a plan that was negotiated in July, would help India satisfy its huge civilian energy needs while allowing it to continue to develop nuclear weapons.

In the speech, Mr. Bush said the two countries were also united in the struggle against terrorism, noting that “both our nations know the pain of terrorism on our own soil.”

The “two great purposes” of the partnership were “to expand the circle of prosperity and development across the world, and to defeat our common enemy by advancing the noble cause of human freedom,” he said.

After the speech, Mr. Bush was scheduled to fly to Islamabad for an overnight stay and meetings with the Pakistani president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, on Saturday. Mr. Bush said on Thursday that he was still making the trip despite a bombing near the U.S. consulate in Karachi on Thursday morning that left four dead, including an American diplomat.

Mr. Bush’s overnight stay and day of events in Islamabad is in sharp contrast to Mr. Clinton’s trip to the Pakistani capital in March 2000, when he arrived by an unmarked military plane and spent barely six hours there.

White House officials acknowledge the security problems in a country where Osama bin Laden is believed to be in hiding, but said they were manageable.

“Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror and, in some sense, a site where the war is being carried about,” Stephen J. Hadley, the national security adviser, told reporters in New Delhi on Thursday.

Mr. Hadley added that “at this point, people are comfortable that the necessary precautions are in place, but this is not a risk-free undertaking.”

John O’Neil contributed reporting for this article from New York.