What is it about?
This paper chronicles and assesses India's role in the promotion of the proposal for a BCIM Economic Corridor connecting the sub-region from Southwest China to Eastern India through Myanmar, India's Northeast region and Bangladesh. The project has been long under consideration in the Track II BCIM Forum for Regional Cooperation. However, Chinese President Xi Jinping's new proposal for Eurasian connectivity through the "Belt and Road" (BRI) / "One Belt One Road" (OBOR) or New Silk Road initiative has greatly complicated India's stance on the BCIM-Economic Corridor project, which is now projected as encompassed within, or intrinsically related to, the BRI project, which also includes the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
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Why is it important?
The paper provides a detailed documentation of Indian policy-makers' ambivalent and fragmented response to China's Silk Road project -- endorsement of the BCIM Economic Corridor, explicit repudiation of the CPEC (which passes through Indian-claimed territory), and silence on the BRI project as such.
Perspectives
The paper builds on an earlier monograph (co-authored with K.S. Rana) on the importance of sub-regional initiatives in enabling the development of India's laggard Northeast region.
Professor Patricia Uberoi
Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi
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This page is a summary of: Problems and Prospects of the BCIM Economic Corridor, China Report, January 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0009445515613868.
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