Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)

The alternative BRI

Not every nation will share the same urgency, fear or even the plausible appetite for joining an alternative to the existing BRI that willy-nilly entails offending the Chinese, directly. But the conversations have already started. The alternative to BRI may not only be feasible, but completely unavoidable, unless the free world throws in the towel to the Chinese, completely

# Opinion

Focus South Asia

New Delhi has long held the view that bar its all-weather adversary Pakistan, the region falls under its ‘sphere of influence’ though the term is never used publicly for obvious reasons. Chinese financing in the South Asian region sans India has been well-documented.