Impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative on regional stability in South Asia

Ahmed, Zahid Shahab; Sheikh, Ziaul Haque

doi:10.1080/19480881.2021.2001985

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“…Through China's BRI framework of economic cooperation in Pakistan and Sri Lanka, China managed to control the deep-water ports in these countries. Sri Lanka's Hambantota port has a 99-year lease with China and Pakistan's Gwadar port is being developed by the Chinese company (Ahmed & Haque Sheikh, 2021). The One Belt and One Road was formally established in 2013 by China's President Xi Jinping and later renamed this project as the BRI, which is based on the vision and action to achieve extensive success in economics and trade sectors through the 'Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) and 21st century Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI)' (Chakma, 2019) .…”

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China’s Belt and Road Initiatives (BRI) in South Asia and Its Policy Challenges to India in the Region

Bharti

2023

South Asian Survey

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The purpose of this article is to describe China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in South Asia. This study also assesses China’s deeper economic cooperation with India’s neighbouring countries in light of BRI projects in the region. Further, this article looks towards India’s position with South Asian countries to counter China’s aggressiveness towards the region. India had refused to join as a partner country of China’s BRI initiative from South Asia. Similarly, India launched the ‘Neighbourhood-First Policy’ to strengthen its political and economic cooperation with South Asian countries to counter China’s geopolitical and geostrategic agenda. China’s policy ‘encircling India’ and ‘Strings of Pearls’ theory working in the South Asia region have been threatening India in the context of BRI expansion in the region. India has deep observations against China’s BRI project that is crossing from the disputed territory of India between Pakistan from Kashmir’s Gilgit–Baltistan region (Pakistan-administered Jammu and Kashmir). In light of the abovementioned causes, this article elucidates principal conflict zones between India and China in the context of South Asia for economic and political connectivity with the subcontinent countries.

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China’s Belt and Road Initiatives (BRI) in South Asia and Its Policy Challenges to India in the Region

Bharti

2023

South Asian Survey

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“…China's expanding trade and infrastructural investments in Bangladesh, for instance, puts India in discomfort, given that it might undermine India's influence in the country 2 . India believes such actions might enable China to win concessions from Bhutan and Bangladesh related to China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which India has refused to join on the grounds of national sovereignty and “debt‐trap” diplomacy (Ahmed & Sheikh, 2021; Jacob, 2017a).…”

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Hydropolitics intertwined with geopolitics in the Brahmaputra River Basin

2022

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The legacy of the sub-continent has led to a complex geopolitical rivalry in the Brahmaputra River Basin, shared by China, India, Bhutan, and Bangladesh. Each riparian state has a varying interest and development agenda, hindering the identification of common interests for water cooperation. This article presents the intertwining of regional geopolitics with the basin hydropolitics, restraining positive interaction, thus, leading to a status quo in the BRB. While maintaining a purposeful status quo seems to be a prudent move by the riparians, the local communities continue to suffer due to the impasse.

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“…However, cultivating relationships with particular South Asian countries requires Beijing to carry out a balancing act without overtly antagonizing other regional stakeholders (Jingdong Yuan 2011). International researchers also report that despite China's proactive promotion of itself as an alternative to India, it has so far maintained its distance from domestic politics in the region (Ahmed and Sheikh 2021).…”

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Asia-China Knowledge Networks: State of the Field

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2022

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The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is an independent, international, nonprofit organization founded in 1923. It fosters innovative research, nurtures new generations of social scientists, deepens how inquiry is practiced within and across disciplines, and mobilizes necessary knowledge on important public issues. For nearly 100 years the SSRC has coordinated the research, policy, and philanthropic communities in the pursuit of evidence-based policies to promote human well-being, emerging as both a pivotal force in the academy and a respected contributor to the public good. The SSRC is guided by the belief that justice, prosperity, and democracy all require better understanding of complex social, cultural, economic, and political processes. We work with practitioners, policymakers, and academic researchers in the social sciences, natural sciences, humanities, and related professions. We build interdisciplinary and international networks, working with partners around the world to link research to practice and policy, strengthen individual and institutional capacities for learning, and enhance public access to information.

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Impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative on regional stability in South Asia

Cited by 5 publications

References 16 publications

China’s Belt and Road Initiatives (BRI) in South Asia and Its Policy Challenges to India in the Region

China’s Belt and Road Initiatives (BRI) in South Asia and Its Policy Challenges to India in the Region

Hydropolitics intertwined with geopolitics in the Brahmaputra River Basin

Asia-China Knowledge Networks: State of the Field

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