First of all, congratulations for a post that has more than one line.
Secondly, what the fcuk is a CPEC loser?
India could have been a larger beneficiary of CPEC had it not been for the utterly stupid and misguided policies of its current Hindutva regime lead by Modi for following reasons.
There are a number of other possibilities i,e an upgraded railway freight system etc since India has good experience with railway engines and transit. Pakistan is open to India joining CPEC, however the short sighted and bigoted government lead by Modi is either too stupid or too ignorant or both to see this in the greater interest of India. They have not only missed the boat but are busy investing in funding proxies in Pakistan to somehow subvert this mega project. This is enough for me to say that India is in wrong hands.
Have you heard of
Delhi Mumbai Freight Corridor & the associated
Industrial Corridor which will be commissioned much before CPEC ?
As a Mod, you should do some research of your own before opening a thread such as this! If you had done some research, you would have saved yourself some effort and could have just settled for your one-liners.
Delhi-Mumbai corridor runs almost parallel to your own corridor. It is also built with
high capacity rail freight infrastructure with funding from Japan as opposed to 2 lane road infrastructure that you are only beginning to build.
- CPEC's far eastern alignment already connects India via Lahore and Sialkot, therefore only an upgrade to the infrastructure and construction of a dry port would have been needed to link India with CPEC.
Like I said, India has been building a freight corridor for the last 10 years, that will ultimately link Ludhiana to Gujarat & Mumbai! Not only is it the direct route, but it is also the fastest. So thanks, but no thanks!
- India could have had a permanent trade route via ground with China, Afghanistan, all of Central Asia, Iran, even Turkey.
FYI, Pakistan already rejected simple trade access to Afghanistan but you think it will have a change of heart once this corridor is complete? What kind of logic is this?
If you forgot, we not only share a much longer border with China, but we also do trade along some of those border outposts already!
- Had India invested in CPEC, Pakistan would have taken it positively and relations would have improved. Instead Modi is busy investing in terrorism.
Why didn't you guys invest in Delhi Mumbai Corridor? It started much before you even conceived this corridor!
- Pakistan would have liked to sell its coal or gas produced out of coal reserves in Thar to India. Coal projects are now underway as part of the CPEC project.
If India was seriously interested in buying coal, it didn't need to wait for CPEC corridor. Besides, everybody is moving away from even the normally clean coal.
What you have in Thar is really substandard coal, which is exactly why it hasn't been mined so far.
- Investing in CPEC would have allowed greater market integration with India, interdependence between Pakistan and India would create something to lose for both countries, hence improving relations would become a necessity not a show off.
This is what I call unadulterated BS!
So who is stopping this trade now? Remember, who backtracked from giving India the MFN status?
The fact is, you guys prioritized Kashmir over trade. And ended up losing a market of 1.2 Billion people who would have liked to buy many of your products due to similarity in food/clothing.
India is actually building at least 6 corridors that are higher in capacity (due to use of dedicated Electric rail infrastructure), bigger in size, larger in impact than this one corridor. You should read sometimes.
Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
But when it comes to CPEC, India will continue to voice her opposition to the part of corridor that passes through disputed territories of J & K - the part that you guys call GB! So no change in that stance.
If China wants to ignore and go ahead with building infrastructure in GB, India will consider it legitimate to venture into China's disputed seas and elsewhere. It is as simple as that.