If it is fully controlled by China, India's economy will suffer, as Beijing wants New Delhi's economy to shrink. Today, if India would have invested in the Hambantota port, China could have not been able to occupy the port. In 2019, U.S. president Donald Trump said that "India should be in Afghanistan fighting that war instead, along with other neighbors. "[10] If India had sent military elements into Afghanistan, today India would have not lost the strategic outpost of Afghanistan, where now Chinese and Pakistan military is building infrastructure to permanently block India. And if a war is going to erupt between China and India, the CCP, having access to Baloch land, could easily attack India with Chinese submarines and the rest of the Chinese naval forces.

Source: Hindustan Times November 06, 2023 18:03 UTC