Indian Objections Over One-belt, One-Road Design

Indian absence from the pecuniary connectivity project has responded with some serious insecurity.

Sushma Swaraj, Foreign Minister of India

India a powerful state of the region has given out its statement regarding China’s greatest ever foreign project that will connect different regions of the world to the Asian market. Similarly, Chinese foreign policy goals are meant to be met alongside economic goals with this massive project.

India remained absent when Beijing hosted international forum of One-belt, One-road project. 

Explicitly, Indian Foreign Ministry released response over questions regarding absence. The statement pointed out following principles to be followed with infrastructural projects having such sort of investment and ambitions.

Ø  Norms , rule of law and good governance must be followed as recognized universally,

Ø  Openness, tranquility and equality should be practiced,

Ø  Financial responsibilities should be followed to avoid burdens on communities,

Ø  Transparency regarding the costs of project,

Ø  Skill and technological assistance should be provided to the other areas of regions,

Ø  The project must be pursued and completed that it may not harm the sovereignty and territorial integrity  of other states,

Ø  Ecological and environmental protection must be honored.

India strongly believes that CPEC do not meet the mentioned criteria. Additionally, the Minister said that his country will not attest any project that is going to harm its territorial integrity and sovereignty. Similarly, the country has repeated accusations on several occasions against the project. China aims to connect its western side of country with deep-water Gawadar Port. The only pathway to perform such action is through the Karakorum Highway: the road built in Pakistan with the help of China and officially opened in 1979.

Gawadar Port is ready to take off towards prestige 

Specifically, the highway runs through Gilgit Baltistan, which was earlier known as Northern Areas. The territory was originally a part of princely state of Jammu & Kashmir. Jammu & Kashmir is still holds a controversial status between India and Pakistan yet, some part of it (known as Azad Kashmir) is administered by Pakistan.

The territorial conflict explains the objection to CPEC, but India’s statement regarding the financial stability also holds an important concern.

Meanwhile, in Sri Lanka, China has assisted massively in infrastructural projects. Surprisingly, former Sri Lankan Government secretly negotiated regarding the investments and now the Sri Lankan debts payable to China are increased up to $8 Billions. Identically, Sri Lanka could pay the bills so it had to swap Hambantota Port in exchange. Consequently, this led to dissidence in Sri Lanka.

India is a strong believer that China has more political ambitions than economic. Indian Government is not happy with the price-tag adding that this is not a pleasant for the world.