China on Tuesday dismissed any apprehensions in India
on its ambitious multi-billion dollar Silk Road projects stretching
across continents to build infrastructure and improve connectivity with
the avowed aim of expansion of trade and development.
It also sought to assure India that there are benefits for countries
joining the projects envisaged under the One Belt and One Road (OBOR)
unveiled by President Xi Jinping two years ago.
“There are some media, which say China is in an expansion mode and
damaging the world. The key objective of OBOR is to share benefits with
all countries involved with China, the second largest economy in the
world,” Liu Yunshan, the fifth ranking member of the powerful Standing
Committee of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) said.
Strategic experts in India are divided with some favouring that it
should join the projects to reap the benefits while others view them
with suspicion.
The OBOR comprises the entire
periphery of the Indian subcontinent, including Pakistan, and also that
seeks to connect the east with the west through the central Asian
region.
India is silent on the implementation of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (MSR) in the Indian Ocean region.
New Delhi has objected to the USD 46 billion China-Pakistan Economic
Corridor (CPEC) as it goes through the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir but is
taking part in the Bangladesh, China, India, Myanmar (BCIM) Economic
Corridor.
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