{"id":41362,"date":"2019-01-30T17:37:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T12:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=41362"},"modified":"2021-05-19T15:22:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T09:52:23","slug":"china-outreach-to-bhutan-poses-fresh-challenge-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/china-outreach-to-bhutan-poses-fresh-challenge-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"China outreach to Bhutan poses fresh challenge to India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/china-woos-bhutan-with-spring-festival-performance\/articleshow\/67736068.cms\"><strong>China outreach to Bhutan poses fresh challenge to India<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>International relation<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Important Facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Grounds for China Interest in Bhutan:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Newly formed Bhutan government wants to <strong>diversify its economy<\/strong> where china can be prominent partner<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reduce excessive dependence on hydropower sector<\/strong> which is <strong>climate sensitive<\/strong> and offer <strong>limited employment opportunities<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>India accounts for 80% of Bhutan total trade<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>China does not have any diplomatic relation with Bhutan<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Bhutan is the only Indian neighbor to have resisted so far to join <strong>Belt Road Initiative of China<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>India-Bhutan Relation:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Newly elected <strong>Bhutan PM first overseas visit was to India<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>India provided <strong>grant assistance of 4500Cr for Bhutan&#8217;s 12th 5YP<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>India also provided transitional <strong>Trade Support Facility<\/strong> of 400Cr over 5year to strengthen bilateral trades and economic linkages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Way Forwards:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>India should be <strong>mindful of possible effects of china engagement in Bhutan in its territorial and boundary domain<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>India should leverage good relation with China since Doklam issue 2017 to weed out any negotiation against India&#8217;s interest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China outreach to Bhutan poses fresh challenge to India International relation Important Facts: Grounds for China Interest in Bhutan: Newly formed Bhutan government wants to diversify its economy where china can be prominent partner Reduce excessive dependence on hydropower sector which is climate sensitive and offer limited employment opportunities India accounts for 80% of Bhutan&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/china-outreach-to-bhutan-poses-fresh-challenge-to-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China outreach to Bhutan poses fresh challenge to India<\/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":[164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704898959},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41362","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=41362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}