{"id":32850,"date":"2018-10-29T17:05:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T11:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32850"},"modified":"2018-10-29T17:05:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T11:35:16","slug":"china-moots-afghan-entry-into-cpec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/china-moots-afghan-entry-into-cpec\/","title":{"rendered":"China moots Afghan entry into CPEC\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/china-opens-door-for-afghanistans-participation-in-cpec\/article22281896.ece\"><strong>China moots Afghan entry into CPEC<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>China on Tuesday flagged the possible inclusion of Afghanistan in the China\u00a0Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) \u2014 a move that is likely to irk India<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media in Beijing on Tuesday, Mr. Wang (Chinese foreign minister) advocated that Afghanistan could join connectivity initiatives, in view of the urgency of improving its people\u2019s lives<\/p>\n<p><strong>Backdrop<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi made the remark of opening the door for Kabul\u2019s entry in an expanded CPEC in the backdrop of the first foreign ministers trilateral dialogue of China, Pakistan and\u00a0Afghanistan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A joint statement released at the end of the one day conference said that the three countries reaffirmed their commitment towards \u201cadvancing connectivity under the Belt and Road Initiative\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Analyst\u2019 view: Balancing Chahbahar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Analysts say that the proposal for landlocked Afghanistan\u2019s, access to the port of Gwadar \u2014 the starting point of CPEC \u2014 may be intended to balance if not undermine the trilateral agreement among India, Iran and Afghanistan, which gives Kabul access to the Iranian port of Chabahar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China moots Afghan entry into CPEC\u00a0\u00a0 Context China on Tuesday flagged the possible inclusion of Afghanistan in the China\u00a0Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) \u2014 a move that is likely to irk India What has happened? Speaking to the media in Beijing on Tuesday, Mr. Wang (Chinese foreign minister) advocated that Afghanistan could join connectivity initiatives, in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/china-moots-afghan-entry-into-cpec\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China moots Afghan entry into CPEC\u00a0\u00a0<\/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-32850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704767465},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32850","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=32850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}