The Handshake | Indian government asserts that CPEC is illegal

Feb 6, 2020, 7:48 PM IST

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.