China’s infrastructure push worries India

[ashok321]

The Pakistani government and Army have assured Beijing that they will do everything possible to ensure the CPEC is completed.

Beijing: With China planning to invest billions of yuan in constructing railways, waterways and highways as part of its giant One Belt One Road, or OBOR, global initiative, New Delhi is evaluating whether it should join a conference planned in Beijing next month on the Chinese project.

India is “yet to take a view on this”, given its reservations on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor running through Azad Kashmir, said a person in the government with direct knowledge of the matter. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is believed to be a part of or linked to the OBOR concept.

Yet, South Block is not oblivious to the economic benefits of connectivity in other corridors which are set to be part of OBOR.

For instance, connectivity along a corridor linking China, Bangladesh, Myanmar and India could bring immense trade benefits to the “underdeveloped” states in India’s north-east. But New Delhi is wary since OBOR will certainly boost Chinese influence globally and not just in India’s immediate neighbourhood.

The proposed OBOR comprises two corridors, one on land, and the other maritime. The land corridors will be part of the Silk Road Economic Belt, or SREB, with corridors through central, west and south Asia which will link China with Europe.

The SREB is coined on the ancient Silk Road through which successive Chinese empires traded with the Romans who greatly prized silk, then the premium Chinese product.

The SREB will forge China’s links with western Europe through central Asia and Russia, and with the Mediterranean through west Asia. It will also ensure access to the Indian Ocean through the much shorter land route via Pakistan that passes through Azad Kashmir, culminating in the port of Gwadar in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province.

But problems remain even in execution of the CPEC. Officials of the state-owned China Communications Constr-uction Co. Ltd told this newspaper in Beijing that they are facing a “safety problem in Pakistan”; however, the Pakistani government was providing them “special security”.

“Safety in Pakistan is always on our mind but it is not the biggest challenge we have faced,” said a company official who did not want to be named.

The Pakistani government and Army have assured Beijing that they will do everything possible to ensure the CPEC is completed.

India has opposed the CPEC on the grounds that it passes through Azad Kashmir, which is sovereign Indian territory under the illegal occupation of Islamabad.

But China is only too aware of India’s thirst for rapid development, a promise that the Narendra Modi government has given to the Indian electorate.

China has built entire cities in the hinterland out of nowhere, including its technological marvels such as the Beijing-Shanghai bullet train and a 32-km-long bridge over the East China Sea connecting Shanghai to an island where a port is being built.

The OBOR is the brainchild of Chinese President Xi Jinping who reportedly first outlined the concept in Kazakhstan in September 2013, and then in Indonesia in October 2013.


The second part of the OBOR project comprises sea routes connecting China with south-east Asia and onward to Africa, supplemented by rail and road networks for which Beijing has heavily invested in Africa.

India, which is also uneasy about Chinese presence in the Indian Ocean and in some nations — apart from Pakistan — in the region, which include Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, the Maldives and even land-locked Nepal, has its own deep engagement with the Asean nations in south-east Asia and the African continent as part of the India-Africa Forum Summit initiative.

The growing Chinese military presence in the Indian Ocean region and constant movement of Chinese submarines have also unnerved New Delhi.

Dragon breathes fire
China plans to invest billions of yuan in One Belt One Road (OBOR) global initiative
OBOR comprises railways, waterways and highways projects
India is wary since OBOR will boost Chinese influence globally
OBOR comprises two corridors: One on land, and the other maritime
Land corridors part of Silk Road Economic Belt, which will link China with Europe
Second part of OBOR comprises sea routes connecting China with south-east Asia and onward to Africa

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[ohmrlobalobayeh]

India is like a nation stucked in the mists of time; open-minded societies always talk about intergration(even if it's an unfriendly nation), where else narrow-minded societies like India always talk about isolation(isolate CHina, isolate Pakistan)

Competency leads one to be gregarious; imcompetency leads one to be cautious.

 

[ashok mourya]

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to the culturally rich Thailand village, Mae Sot...


Photo Credit: Mikhail Esteves/flickr


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[anyrandom]

India is like a nation stucked in the mists of time; open-minded societies always talk about intergration(even if it's an unfriendly nation), where else narrow-minded societies like India always talk about isolation(isolate CHina, isolate Pakistan)

Competency leads one to be gregarious; imcompetency leads one to be cautious.

Pretty holier than thou attitude. India's problem is that the so-called CPEC passes through a territory which India claims. Thats the only issue India has. And before lecturing India on open mindedness, China should consider stopping its 'narrow-mindedness' over South China sea and let all the nations on the periphery claim their rightful ownership rather than the war mongering it is doing right now.

 

[ohmrlobalobayeh]

Pretty holier than thou attitude. India's problem is that the so-called CPEC passes through a territory which India claims. Thats the only issue India has. And before lecturing India on open mindedness, China should consider stopping its 'narrow-mindedness' over South China sea and let all the nations on the periphery claim their rightful ownership rather than the war mongering it is doing right now.

Those countries claim those islands like china, yet the latter still invited them to Belt and Road/AIIB. This is what i meant by China's gregariousness(and to a certain degree- generosity)

Hence, ur statement is outright fallacious.

Continue being a backward nation.

 

[anyrandom]

Those countries claim those islands like china, yet the latter still invited them to Belt and Road/AIIB. This is what i meant by China's gregariousness(and to a certain degree- generosity)

Hence, ur statement is outright fallacious.

Continue being a backward nation.

China is deploying vast assets to fortify SCS area and preventing any oil exploration from those countries or even fishermen from entering those territories so I don't understand where China is being gregarious.
India has no problem with the belt except that an offshoot of it(CPEC) passes through a territory India claims. China and India already have cooperation in other areas. So your position is just illogical and out of context.

We will continue being a 'backward' nation by claiming our territory. Thank you so much for your helping hand!

 

[ohmrlobalobayeh]

China is deploying vast assets to fortify SCS area and preventing any oil exploration from those countries or even fishermen from entering those territories so I don't understand where China is being gregarious.
India has no problem with the belt except that an offshoot of it(CPEC) passes through a territory India claims. China and India already have cooperation in other areas. So your position is just illogical and out of context.

We will continue being a 'backward' nation by claiming our territory. Thank you so much for your helping hand!

you're the 1 that used the threw a red herring and flew off to the SCS dispute as a point in your statement when im talking about how China has invited even not-so-friendly' nations to her own trade/economic pacts. Also, more like India is only using Azad Kashmir as an excuse when the true reason underneath is she do not want China to have greater influence via Belt and Road in South Asia.

Thus i repeat , your statement is still fallacious.

Continue remaining incompetent and staying backward.

Thanks.

 

[帅的一匹]

No one can do shit about it

 

[maximuswarrior]

Insecure India.

 

[帅的一匹]

India invited Dalai Lama to south Tibet, we will keep pushing infrastructure along the border.

 

[ashok321]

India invited Dalai Lama to south Tibet, we will keep pushing infrastructure along the border.

Today:

China's Dalai threat: Will take necessary steps :

 

[帅的一匹]

Today:

China's Dalai threat: Will take necessary steps :

Dalai is a puppet, and Modi goverment is a threat.

What if Salai Dalai Lama die, who will be the next puppet of Barahti government? Maybe China should host AP rebellion force leader in Tibet.

 

[TopCat]

How is Nepal's 8 billion loan doing? China should help Nepal to get out of Indian clutch. Nepal should be directly connected to the CPEC through China.

 

[帅的一匹]

How is Nepal's 8 billion loan doing? China should help Nepal to get out of Indian clutch. Nepal should be directly connected to the CPEC through China.

They are not sincerely helping Nepal, they are doing it for countering China existence.

 

[Tshering22]

Those countries claim those islands like china, yet the latter still invited them to Belt and Road/AIIB. This is what i meant by China's gregariousness(and to a certain degree- generosity)

Hence, ur statement is outright fallacious.

Continue being a backward nation.

The territory legally belongs to India as was the terms of agreement with its King during the period of partition. China has already retaken what it feels is its historic territory while infringing upon our land.

How does it expect us to support it?

Dalai is a puppet, and Modi goverment is a threat.

What if Salai Dalai Lama die, who will be the next puppet of Barahti government? Maybe China should host AP rebellion force leader in Tibet.

HH is a spiritual teacher and has no ambition to separate Tibet from you.

Maybe he will assign a successor to him to continue the discourse.

You are already holding a few wanted terrorist groups in your country; like Anthony Shimray's cronies.