{"id":29605,"date":"2018-10-26T11:26:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29605"},"modified":"2018-10-26T11:26:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:56:19","slug":"emerging-irritant-on-china-pakistan-economic-corridor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/emerging-irritant-on-china-pakistan-economic-corridor\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerging irritant: on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/emerging-irritant\/article23763858.ece\">Emerging irritant: on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is China\u2019s ambitious project for increasing connectivity and economic cooperation within Eurasia. Since its announcement in 2013, the BRI has been positively received by many countries covered within its ambit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Indian concern regarding CPEC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s insistence on establishing the CPEC project through PoK is seen by India as a deliberate disregard of its territorial claims<\/p>\n<p><strong>Effect of CPEC<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If\u00a0China\u00a0invests heavily in the region, it risks becoming party to what has been a troubling bilateral dispute between nuclear-armed rivals.<\/li>\n<li>If CPEC gets operationalized and fortifies the emergence of a fully functional China-Pakistan axis, this would hamper India\u2019s larger interests in the South Asian region and force a strategic rethink in South Block<\/li>\n<li>The incentives for this would be even stronger if CPEC\u2019s potential success renders PoK more industrially developed, thus granting Pakistan greater legitimacy over the region<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The best way forward would be for India to come up with a concrete plan on PoK. Otherwise, its protests on CPEC may well be ignored by stakeholders in the project, with little consequence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emerging irritant: on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor What has happened? The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is China\u2019s ambitious project for increasing connectivity and economic cooperation within Eurasia. Since its announcement in 2013, the BRI has been positively received by many countries covered within its ambit. Indian concern regarding CPEC China\u2019s insistence on establishing the CPEC&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/emerging-irritant-on-china-pakistan-economic-corridor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Emerging irritant: on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704776209},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}