WASHINGTON: India has effectively imposed certain redlines on China 's ambitious Belt and Road Initiative in South Asia, a US expert has said.India is the only major country of the world to have opposed Chinese President Xi Jinping's ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).The BRI focuses on improving connectivity and cooperation among Asian countries, Africa, China and Europe. "There are areas where India says there are things that we're not comfortable with. This isn't just an economic choice," Small said.Small said China worked very hard politically to get Moscow's acquiescence to the Silk Road Economic Belt and the Eurasian Union merger. "It's even as we think we'll hear, managed to reach some sort of terms with Japan. It really didn't put those political efforts with India in the first phase," he noted.

Source: Economic Times January 30, 2018 09:45 UTC