Republic of India’s Act East policy can meet China’s Belt and Road Initiative : Chinese envoy

[Hindustani78]

NEW DELHI, November 17, 2018 01:20 IST
Updated: November 17, 2018 01:20 IST

Makes pitch for India to join China’s mega corridor project


India’s Act East policy and China’s Belt and Road Initiative (One Belt One Road or OBOR) are a “natural” area of cooperation between the two countries, said China’s Ambassador to India Luo Zhaohui on Thursday, making another pitch for India to join China’s mega-infrastructure corridor, which New Delhi has rejected thus far.

However, instead of the more contentious part of the Belt and Road Initiative, the China-Pakistan-Economic-Corridor that he has spoken of in the past, Mr. Luo suggested that the cooperation could come through the “China-India-Myanmar” BCIM corridor to India’s North-East.

In a written message for the Youth event, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he hoped it would “provide a platform for the youth of both nations to build a ‘Great Wall of Trust and Cooperation’ between the two countries.”

Finding synergy

“Act East and OBOR are quite natural…. And [we must see] how to synergise these two strategies together between the two countries and between the two leaders and benefit from cooperation and development. That is the right direction... and I am quite optimistic,” Mr. Luo said, speaking to delegates at a “China-India Youth Dialogue” seminar.

 

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It can never be the terms like those accepted by other vassal states and Chinese colonies.

These would have to be on terms that recognise the 2 Asian giants as equals and take into account their domestic sensitivities.

I am sure the Chinese will recognise that there can be cooperation on equal terms

 

[Hindustani78]

It can never be the terms like those accepted by other vassal states and Chinese colonies.

We Indians learn from our History ,Well the Vassal States were even during the Mongol Invasions.

Caliph Umar disapproved of any incursion beyond the Indus River and ordered his commanders to consolidate their position west of the Indus . Peroz III was son of Yazdegerd III, the last Sasanian king , Peroz and much of the imperial family escaped through the Pamir Mountains in what is now Tajikistan and arrived at Tang China, which was more supportive of the Sassanids.

The region of Transoxiana (Arabic: Ma wara' al-nahr) had been conquered by the Umayyad leader Qutayba ibn Muslim in the reign of al-Walid I (r. 705–715), following the Muslim conquests of Persia and Khurasan in the mid-7th century.In response, from 720 on the Turgesh launched a series of attacks against the Muslims in Transoxiana, coupled with uprisings against the Caliphate among the local Soghdians.The first to approach the wall was Khosrau, a grandson of the last Sassanid Persian ruler, Yazdegerd III (r. 632–651). Khosrau's father, Peroz, had fled to the Tang court in China, and now Khosrau accompanied the Turgesh in hopes of recovering his ancestral throne. When he approached the garrison, he urged them to surrender and offered them a safe-conduct, while proclaiming the restoration of his realm.

Mohammad bin Qasim defeated Dahir Shah and captured his eastern territories for the Umayyad Caliphate.Dahir Shah then tried to prevent Mohammad bin Qasim from crossing the Indus River, moving his forces to its eastern banks. Eventually, however, Mohammad bin Qasim crossed and defeated the forces led by Jaisiah (Dahir’s son) at Jitor. Mohammad bin Qasim fought Dahir Shah at Raor (near modern Nawabshah) in 712 CE.

These would have to be on terms that recognise the 2 Asian giants as equals and take into account their domestic sensitivities.

And you are referring 2 Asian giants to which countries ?

I am sure the Chinese will recognise that there can be cooperation on equal terms

Chinese always having a habit to betray Indian nation.