China trying to convince India CPEC is for prosperityIndia is strongly opposed to an economic corridor (China-Pakistan Economic Corridor) that China is building in Pakistan that runs through disputed Kashmir as part of the Belt and Road initiative. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said New Delhi should not let political problems deter it from joining the project, involving billions of dollars of investment, and benefiting from it. Lavrov was speaking in the Indian capital after a three-way meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj at which, he said, India’s reservations over the Chinese project were discussed. Russia, all the countries in central Asia, and European nations had signed up to the Chinese project to boost economic cooperation, he said. But substantial differences between India and China, mainly over long-standing border disputes, have snuffed out prospects of any real cooperation among the three.

Source: The Express Tribune December 12, 2017 06:56 UTC