New Delhi, June 24 (TNS): India would do well to welcome China’s project for mutual prosperity and to avoid isolation in the region, suggests India’s leading media group.
According to Indian mainstream media, India did not endorse the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and the Chinese-led Belt and Road Initiative in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit statement (Qingdao declaration), although all remaining seven members of the SCO bloc supported the project.
This situation may create an economic and geo-strategic isolation for India within the SCO bloc — apparently, it is not healthy for the bloc.
Nonetheless, India had endorsed the summit’s declaration against terror in all forms and manifestations. Even the Indian media said that Indian and Pakistani military would be trained together under the context of the SCO’s counter-terror military exercise “Peace Mission 2018.”
Therefore, India opposed CPEC in SCO but endorsed the “Peace Mission 2018” exercise. According to the Chinese perspective, the SCO aims to resolve security issues with equal cooperation; it is not aimed at serving Chinese and Russian geo-strategic interests.
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India has been claiming that CPEC violates their sovereignty and territorial integrity, since CPEC passes through disputed Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) or Azad Kashmir region, although China expressed that all territorial laws were respected and the dispute is an “internal matter” between India and Pakistan.
India and Pakistan should mitigate the Kashmir crisis through bilateral negotiations. It is clear that the regional tension and proxy conflicts between India and Pakistan have been hampering the formation of wider connectivity projects between SCO countries and beyond.
And this situation is well aligned with the US’s China containment policy in which the US wants total control over the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean to sustain its hegemony and deter Chinese assertion.
Therefore, the Indian policy has a visible double standard dealing (or the so-called non-aligned strategy), although many analysts believe that the US has the stronger influence in Indian regional politics and largely in the South Asian political economy.
Some argue that Indian diplomatic strategies are being produced by American and Israeli think-tanks.
That US-Israeli influence in policy formation also led India to spread the minority-oppressing radical Hindutva ideology, although development and boosting employment are more needed.
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Consequently, India is now routinely experiencing communal and sectarian violence.
The rapid upsurge of Hindutva followers indicates that the country is ideologically preparing itself to challenge Chinese-styled socialism, Chinese values, and Chinese geo-economic assertion in South Asia.
On the other hand, China has increased its South Asian diplomacy and geo-economic activities. Pakistan, the Maldives, and Nepal seem very enthusiastic regarding Chinese development and infrastructural projects in their respective countries.
Sri Lanka, Bhutan, and Bangladesh are trying hard to balance between the two regional powers, even though they are being attracted by the Chinese promise of geo-economic opportunities.
If China pushes more prospects in South Asia, India may find herself in an isolated position in the Indian Ocean region. The so-called satellite states which are still orbiting around India can jump into the Chinese orbit when the time is appropriate. Many analysts believe the transition from one orbit to another will not be smooth, since there are several tension-inducing border disputes and proxy war flashpoints (both economic and military) between India and China.
