Tag: Belt and Road initiative

Act East Policy under the shadow of BRI

For the success of our Act East Policy the key happens to be Myanmar having a common border with Arunachal, Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram.

May 20, 2019

China slams terror attack in Pakistan

Three gunmen stormed the Pearl Continental Hotel in Gwadar on Saturday, killing four hotel workers and one Navy official.

May 13, 2019

India likely to again boycott China’s Belt and Road Forum this month

Asked if China had asked India to participate in the forum to be held this month, the source did not give a straight reply but stated that Beijing had been requesting New Delhi to reconsider its decision.

April 6, 2019

Sushma Swaraj proposes air freight corridor between India and Central Asia

Swaraj informed the gathering that Iran was holding the Chabahar Day International Conference on February 26 at the Chabahar port to introduce to the invited delegations the capacities of the port.

January 13, 2019

China junks report of secret plan to build fighter jets in Pak trade corridor

The CPEC, which connects Gwadar Port in Balochistan with China's Xinjiang province, is the flagship project of Chinese President Xi Jinping's ambitious Belt and Road Initiative.

December 22, 2018

Imran’s fate hinges on economic showing

Pakistan has requested for a $12 billion help because its economy is in a shambles. The foreign exchange reserve is at $7.3 billion whereas a dollar itself buys 140 Pakistani Rupees. The monthly trade deficit is at $1.7 billion.

December 21, 2018

Latter-day Silk Route~I

If BRI does materialise, it will usher in a paradigm shift in the regional power dynamics for a long time to come. Whether India stands on the right side of that shift will depend entirely on how we as a nation are able to comprehend, visualise and position ourselves in the whole matrix of competitive and cooperative interactions with China.

December 10, 2018

India, Russia, Iran negotiating transport corridor to enhance trade

The new shipment passage, International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC), is set to connect the Indian Ocean to the Persian Gulf through Iran to Russia and Europe.

December 2, 2018

The Apec fizzle

The worthies who had gathered at Papua New Guinea over the weekend have agreed to disagree. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit has failed, a collective failure that has been underlined by the inability to agree on a communique. This is said to be the first time in its history that a joint communique has …

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November 21, 2018

Lobsang Sangay accuses China of spreading rumours about Tibet on social media

Sangay cautioned the Tibetans that providing information about citizens of your country to another country is a crime while referring to the Tibetan man in Sweden who was charged with espionage in April 2018.

November 20, 2018

India, US, Japan, Australia hold ‘Quad’ meet; agree to promote free, open Indo-Pacific

The meeting is considered significant since the ‘Quad’ is seen as a grouping that is concerned over the growing influence of China, especially with its ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

November 15, 2018

For a few sunny smiles in Beijing

A pair of prime ministers, an embattled president, and a brewing constitutional crisis: the scenario that has been unfolding in one of Asia’s oldest democracies over the past three weeks occasions a mixture of -fascination and alarm. Sri Lanka’s post-colonial history has been peppered with bouts of instability and bloodletting. It came as a pleasant …

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November 15, 2018

Imran’s China lesson

Whatever the volume of assistance for Pakistan that China is expected to finalise very shortly, the striking feature of the grandstanding that marked Imran Khan’s arrival in Beijing on Friday was his remarkably frank admission to President Xi Jinping that “Pakistan wants to learn from China”. Implicit in that expression in a rare moment of …

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November 5, 2018

India supports responsible, transparent lending practices: Sushma Swaraj in Hanoi

In apparent criticism of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, Swaraj says India's approach is based on inter-dependence rather than dominance or narrow reciprocal considerations

August 28, 2018

China interested to join TAPI pipeline with Pak support

China is said to be eyeing to build a link to TAPI from Pakistan’s territory since a pipeline between China and Turkmenistan could be a very costly proposition.

August 23, 2018

Partnering China never a win-win proposition

In July 2017, the then Nepali Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal awarded a 2.5-billion-dollar project to China’s Gezhouba group to build the Budhi-Gandaki hydroelectric project. Just four months later, the deal was rescinded by a new pro-India Sher Bahadur Deuba government citing that was made in a “thoughtless manner” without adequate transparency. Upon being elected …

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July 18, 2018

The Shanghai Model~II

According to Derek Grossman, senior defence analyst at the non-profit, non-partisan RAND Corporation of USA, Beijing may not have even wanted India to join the SCO. Russia first proposed India as a member to strengthen bilateral economic and security engagement, but mainly to contain China’s growing influence in the organization. Russia is increasingly concerned that …

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May 29, 2018