Defining Our Relationship with India for the Next Century
It is time to expand transparent, high-standard regional lending mechanisms – tools that will actually help nations instead of saddling them with mounting debt.
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Many Belts and Many Roads
On October 3, U.S. Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis commented on China’s Belt and Road initiative during a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Chinese and Pakistani officials were quick to defend their flagship route, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
Asia’s Competing Visions
Earlier this month, the leaders of Japan and India paused to lay the foundation stone for a high-speed railway. Shinzo Abe was visiting Narendra Modi’s home state, where a 500-kilometer bullet train using Japanese financing and technology will link Mumbai and the industrial city of Ahmedabad. Modi called Japan “a true friend” and the train a “symbol of new India.” Abe agreed, saying, “The project symbolizes India-Japan friendship.” It also illustrates the high-stakes competition underway to connect the Eurasian supercontinent. China has stolen the spotlight, but other regional powers are not standing still.
China and India End Border Stand-off
Quotes and Quotas is a weekly digest of phrases and facts that help explain Asia’s infrastructure push.
Modi’s Infrastructure Spending Spree
Quotes and Quotas is a weekly digest of phrases and facts that help explain Asia’s infrastructure push.