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Saturday,
19
September
2015
12:48 am
Why?
1. Chinese
economy
is
slowing
down
--- exports
are
down,
demand
is
down
2. China
needs
to
find
NEW
markets
3. Growing
disparity
b/w
coastal
China
v/s
Inland
China
=
creating
social
proble
widening
rich
poor
gap
etc.
Therefore,
inland
areas
need
to
be
developed.
4. Sorta
like
an
olive
branch
to
all
the
countries
in
East
Asia
which
have
been
in
aggression
in
the
South
China
Sea
5. To
counter
USA's
PIVOT
policy
&
USA's
TRANS
PACIFIC
PARTNERSHIP
(TPP)
in
6. To
set
up
base
in
Indian
Ocean
via
Maldives,
Lanka
etc.
7. Straits
of
Malacca
=
vital
choke
point;
more
than
80%
of
China's
trade
passes
these
are
pirate
infested
-->
China
wants
to
secure
these
8. China
wants
to
promote
its
currency
the
RENMINBI
as
a
global
currency.
India?
Ambiguous
stand.
Lanka,
Pakistan,
Maldives
are
ALL
IN.
India's
worried
about
S
theory.
+
China's
got
that
CPEC
thing
going
on
with
Pak
which
ends
in
Pak's
GWADAR
por
close
to
our
own
interests
in
Iran's
CHABAHAR
port.
ems, extremism,
nfuriated by Chinese
nitiative
STRING OF PEARLS
Apart
from
that,
we've
got
"PROJECT
MAUSAM"
and
"SPICE
ROUTE"
projects
(b
our
glorious
culture
-->
better
understanding
-->
less
disputes):
Project
Mausam
would
allow
India
to
re
establish
its
ties
with
its
ancient
trade
Indian
Ocean
=
east
Africa,
along
the
Arabian
Peninsula,
Iran
to
the
major
count
Sri
Lanka
and
Southeast
Asia.
"By
converting
the
Silk
Road
story
into
one
that
of
trade,
Beijing
is
ignoring
the
flow
of
ideas
through
which
Buddhism
spread
from
India
to
China."
BCIM
he
Indian
Ocean
as
a
nese
attempts
to
hijack
INSTC
From
Iran's
Chabahar
port
which
we
are
developing,
we've
got
another
initiativ
INTERNATIONAL
NORTH
SOUTH
TRANSPORT
CORRIDOR
or
INSTC.
It's
a
ship,
road
and
rail
route
for
moving
freight
between
Russia,
Europe,
Iran,
India
has
asked
Uzbekistan
to
be
a
part
of
INSTC.
India-
Myanmar-
Thailand
Trilateral
Highway from Moreh in Manipur, India to Mae Sot, Thailand via Myanmar
ve
called
Central
Asia
and
India.
India-
Myanmar-
Thailand
Trilateral
Highway
Highway from Moreh in Manipur, India to Mae Sot, Thailand via Myanmar
Way
ahead JUST
IMAGINE
WHAT
A
GREAT
ECONOMIC
SUPERPOWER
THIS
REGION
COULD
OF
THESE
INITIATIVES:
OBOR,
CPEC,
BCIM,
INSTC
were
JOINED
TOGETHER!
If
there
were
good
relations
b/w
Ind,
China,
Pak,
then
we
could've
perhaps
see
in
our
states
of
Punjab
and
Rajasthan,
and
an
extension
of
our
INSTC
in
Pak.
DEVELOP IN TO IF ALL
en an extension of CPEC