Economic Corridor  

Hello and welcome to this episode of The Handshake, my name is Amal Chowdhury and today we will be talking about how India has asserted that China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is illegal. The Indian Government’s concerns arise from the fact that the inclusion of the so-called illegal ‘China-Pakistan Economic Corridor’ (CPEC) as a flagship project of ‘OBOR/BRI’, directly impinges on the issue of sovereignty and territorial integrity of India, the Ministry of External Affairs told Lok Sabha on Wednesday.

Addressing a media conference here ahead of the Belt and Road Forum (BRF) being held from April 25-27 to showcase China's trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi appealed to India to shed its opposition to the USD 60 billion CPEC, saying it no way "undermined" the basic position on the Kashmir dispute.

 

 

China has poured in a lot of money in Pakistan. The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has a project funding of about $62 billion. The CPEC is one of the major concerns for India.

India is also likely to discuss issues of Chinese support to the Pakistani establishment including their backing of international terrorists such as Masood Azhar and their activities in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir like the building of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor

One of the things that Pakistan is choking on is a pile of Chinese debt, much of it related to the $60 billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor