India’s stance on One Belt One Road wavering: China
BEIJING: A day after Russia’s ambassador to India said Beijing and New Delhi should resolve their differences on the One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative, China said on Wednesday that New Delhi’s stand on it appeared to be wavering.
China again sought to allay India’s fears, saying the project, whose key artery goes through that part of Kashmir held by Pakistan, would not change Beijing’s “neutral” stand on the issue.
“You and your colleagues asked this question before and it shows that India is quite wavering on this issue of the Belt and Road initiative,” foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said.
On Tuesday, Russian ambassador to India Nikolay Kudashev said there should be a dialogue between India and China over the issue. “We will favour China and India coming to some sort of understanding bilaterally for preferred routes, ways and means of communications, of connectivity,” he said.
China said it was open to inclusive cooperation on OBOR, reiterating that the China-pakistan Economic Corridor which is a part of the project does not involve any territorial disputes as claimed by India.
China has been reiterating that the $50 billion CPEC which traverses through the POK is a connectivity project and will not affect its stand that the Kashmir issue should be resolved between India and Pakistan through talks.