Modi blew it big time on China policies

[Path-Finder]

That's fine, but do you realize that India already joined the AIIB which is financing the BRI, they are paying for it but not getting anything from it.

Even the US, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Russia, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and everyone else has joined BRI. Where are India's allies?

what is AIIB & BRI?

 

[Proudpakistaniguy]

what is AIIB & BRI?

AIIB( Asian infrastructure investment bank)
BRI( Belt and road initiative )

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

what is AIIB & BRI?

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the Belt and Road Initiative.

 

[AUSTERLITZ]

That's fine, but do you realize that India already joined the AIIB which is financing the BRI, they are paying for it but not getting anything from it.

Even the US, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Russia, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and everyone else has joined BRI. Where are India's allies?

AIIB relates to all infrastructure projects not just OBOR related.
Japan and USA are your biggest adversaries,if u really believe they will advance your cause you are deluded.They have not joined,merely attended.Russia will use you for economic benefit and to keep usa at bay,it has its own plans with eurasian customs union.There is no road to south asia without india,which occupies the central position and has an economy/market greater than all the rest put together.China doesn't respect our strategic interests atm and we have no reason to respect theirs.Quid pro quo.

Sooner or later india will lick what it spit. Thook kay chaTay ga.

Mark my words india will join OBOR and Indians for the sake of face saving will say, "as long as we get business interests".

China will have to give us something tangible in return,simple as that.Without India OBOR is little more than a regional exercise with small countries and small economies.For long distance trade with usa and europe ,those are far more cost efficient by sea anyway.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

AIIB relates to all infrastructure projects not just OBOR related.
Japan and USA are your biggest adversaries,if u really believe they will advance your cause you are deluded.They have not joined,merely attended.Russia will use you for economic benefit and to keep usa at bay,it has its own plans with eurasian customs union.There is no road to south asia without india,which occupies the central position and has an economy/market greater than all the rest put together.China doesn't respect our strategic interests atm and we have no reason to respect theirs.Quid pro quo.

I guess you haven't noticed Trump's recent pivot to China.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...deal-as-sign-relations-are-hitting-a-new-high

India boycotting the BRI is a self-imposed isolation.

 

[AUSTERLITZ]

I guess you haven't noticed Trump's recent pivot to China.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...deal-as-sign-relations-are-hitting-a-new-high

India boycotting the BRI is a self-imposed isolation.

Keep believing USA is your new best friend.You are USA's biggest geopolitical target,forget india.USA may use you as a cheap workshop for its products for profit,but will do everything in its power to undermine and sabotage any attempt u make to increase your economic/political sphere of influence.They already have an arc to your east ringing you with japan and its allies,now deploying THAAD in south korea right on your doorstep,want India in on the game to expand the arc and encircle china from the south as well.In the middle east its got bases everywhere except iran,u won't be able to move forward an inch without them hindering you.India is in no isolation,its currently the highest foreign capital attraction destination.We will chart our own path ,slowly.You concern yourself with your new best friend.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Keep believing USA is your new best friend.You are USA's biggest geopolitical target,forget india.USA may use you as a cheap workshop for its products for profit,but will do everything in its power to undermine and sabotage any attempt u make to increase your economic/political sphere of influence.They already have an arc to your east ringing you with japan and its allies,now deploying THAAD in south korea right on your doorstep,want India in on the game to expand the arc and encircle china from the south as well.In the middle east its got bases everywhere except iran,u won't be able to move forward an inch without them hindering you.India is in no isolation,its currently the highest foreign capital attraction destination.We will chart our own path ,slowly.You concern yourself with your new best friend.

You mean like the way Trump talks about his "close friend" Xi Jinping?

He gave in on literally every single issue, from currency manipulation (Trump says China is NOT a currency manipulator) to North Korea (Trump says China is doing an amazing job), the One China Policy (Trump accepted it without conditions), Trade (they are allowing Chinese banks onto the US mainland), the Belt and Road Initiative, literally every single issue.

India's last hope was counting on the US to help balance against China, but it seems Trump has forgotten about India. All he ever talks about now is how good his friendship is with Xi Jinping, and how China is doing such a great job in the region.

And yes I agree, the USA and China are long-term strategic rivals. But that's long-term, like say over the next few decades. Trump himself is the most pro-China US politician now.

 

[Crixus]

like you banned Indian movies and then allowed right ?????

Sooner or later india will lick what it spit. Thook kay chaTay ga.

Mark my words india will join OBOR and Indians for the sake of face saving will say, "as long as we get business interests".

 

[NirmalKrish]

Modi blew it big time on China policies
By M K Bhadrakumar – May 13, 2017

According to Pakistani press, one highlight of the participation by PM Nawaz Sharif at the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing (May 14-15) will be the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the two countries opening the door to massive Chinese investment – to the tune of $50 billion – for the development of the North Indus River Cascade in Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan region. This will be Chinese investment over and above the $46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.
A whopping 40000 MW of electricity can be produced in the region known as the North Indus River Cascade, which stretches from Skardu in Gilgit-Baltistan and runs through Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa as far as Tarbela. The stunning development catapults Pakistan as by far the number one recipient of Chinese investment in infrastructure development. The geopolitical significance is at once obvious.

Beijing, which went the extra league in the recent months to convince India that the latter’s concerns over sovereignty relating to the CPEC are unwarranted, has apparently given up and decided to simply ignore Delhi’s protestations and proceed with the CPEC projects in a big way in Gilgit-Baltistan. It is a political and diplomatic snub by China, conveying a frank message to the Modi government to “get lost”.

The Modi government is now left with an option to carry on regardless along the path of confrontation and rivalry with China, or, alternatively, to see the writing on the wall and get adjusted to the fait accompli with a sense of stoicism and sense of modesty. The latter course is not easy since the “core constituency” of the BJP will mutiny and the RSS will rap on the government’s knuckles. However, China seems to estimate that it is in India’s DNA that sooner rather than later, it will feel the intensity of regional (and global) isolation – especially now that all of India’s neighbours, including Nepal, have joined the OBOR – and make atonement.
Meanwhile, the announcement in Washington on Thursday that President Donald Trump has nominated his special assistant and the point person on Asia in the National Security Council Matt Pottinger to represent him at the weekend event in Beijing must come as shock to the Indian foreign-policy elites.

The US-China détente that is unfolding under Trump’s stewardship makes complete nonsense of Modi government’s China policies that are tied to the apron strings of the Obama administration’s pivot strategy in Asia.

The US and China made a joint announcement on Thursday regarding the first tranche of policy decisions on trade issues envisaged under the so-called Initial Actions of the U.S.-China Economic Cooperation 100-Day Plan that was agreed upon by Trump and President Xi Jinping at their Mar-a-Lago meeting in Florida in April.
The White House feels delighted that the relationships Trump has built with President Xi Jinping and other Chinese leaders “are clearly paying dividends.” The announcement covers areas such as agricultural trade, financial services and energy to boost economic cooperation. Amongst other things, China will receive imports of beef and LNG from the US, while the latter agrees to apply the same bank prudential supervisory and regulatory standards to Chinese banking institutions as to other foreign banking institutions.

The US Commerce Department announced on Thursday that Washington “recognizes the importance” of China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative and is therefore deputing a delegation to attend the forum in Beijing.

It cannot be lost on the Trump administration that OBOR is shaping up as a new vector of globalization and the US will be the loser if it stays out of the new supply chain. Ning Jizhe, China’s vice-minister of the National Development and Reform Commission said in Beijing on Saturday, “Chinese outbound investment is forecast to total $600 billion to $800 billion over the next five years, a fairly large proportion of which will go into markets related to the Belt and Road Initiative.” This compares with the $60 billion China has so far invested in OBOR projects.
All in all, Modi government’s China policies are turning out to be very short-sighted and based on vanities and prejudices carried forward from another era that are hopelessly unsustainable today. It was possible to have rationally analysed that the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing will turn out to be a seminal event in global politics. But Modi decided to boycott it. The sad part is the sophistry in the Indian argument. The plain truth is that in the emerging scenario in J&K, India should be more than satisfied with a solution to the Kashmir problem without having to redraw territorial boundaries and which would somehow legitimise the Line of Control as the international border.
Indira Gandhi knew this home truth; Rajiv Gandhi knew it; Narasimha Rao knew it; AB Vajpayee most certainly knew it. But Modi somehow doesn’t get it. The Modi government dreams up that all of Greater Kashmir stretching up to Wakhan Corridor belongs to India. A foreign policy based on such poppycock does not serve the country’s interests. The Modi government lends money to Vietnam to buy patrol boats to stand up to China, while President Tran Dai Quang attends the OBOR event in Beijing and is feted by President Xi.The international community will only regard our leaders as a frivolous lot with a provincial mind. Read a candid essay, here, by Prem Shankar Jha on what OBOR could have been and should have been for India’s development agenda.


source: http://blogs.rediff.com/mkbhadrakumar/2017/05/13/modi-blew-it-big-time-on-china-policies/

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"time on China policies
By M K Bhadrakumar – May 13, 2017

According to Pakistani press,"

enough said! the rest was just garbage

 

[American Pakistani]

like you banned Indian movies and then allowed right ?????

Pakistan bans indian movies temporarily from time to time. Pakistan is not world largest hypocrisy who bans media.

 

[desiHindu]

I have no idea why these countries are begging in India to join OBOR?!

A NO is a NO is a NO. Get over it and move on.

 

[Crixus]

TEMPORARY BAN is best example of spit and lick

Pakistan bans indian movies temporarily from time to time. Pakistan is not world largest hypocrisy who bans media.

 

[hit&run&hitagain]

India has nothing to do with OBOR. Don't know why China and all its relatives are desperate for India to join.

Is China short of money building roads for others ?

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

I dont care. India should care about South East highway and BBIN highway with neighbours. I want a prosperous North East where other Indians will migrate and work some day.
Second, with our huge population, we can very well ignore the so called OBOR. We are not the needy ones with begging bowls. If some country invest here, it will be on our terms, unless small and some countries whose policies are changed by China to achieve their goals.

I say, all the best to the countries, and a prosperous neighbours are good for India.

 

[Chhatrapati]

as expected .
Then why this fuss about " we are not going to attend BRF" . are you signaling someone to come and insist you .
Either you agree with me or not but usa & japan ditch india at the last moments . .

The imaginary anti-China block. Who is creating 'fuss about it'? Some paid media and independent garbage articles like this.
Claiming USA and Japan ditch India, how? By attending OBOR? lol why should we stop anyone from attending, can you prove that we ask someone not to attend it?