PM Modi Only World Statesman To Stand Up To China: Top US Expert
The Belt and Road Initiative aimed at building a vast network of infrastructure projects expanding China's expertise and capital to different parts of the world includes $50 billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor or CPEC over which India has protested as it passes through Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir or PoK.
All India | Press Trust of India | Updated: November 17, 2017 19:12 IST
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PM Modi Only World Statesman To Stand Up To China: Top US Expert
PM Narendra Modi is the only world leader to stand up to China and their OBOR plan, a top US expert said
WASHINGTON: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the only world statesman to have stood up to China and their Belt and Road Initiative, even though the US has been silent on the ambitious project till recently, a top American expert on China said today.
During a Congressional hearing, Michael Pillsbury, Director of Center on Chinese Strategy at the prestigious think-tank Hudson Institute, told lawmakers that PM Modi and his team have been quite outspoken against Chinese President Xi Jinping's ambitious project.
"The only statesman in the world who stood up to it yet, is Prime Minister Modi. He and his team have been quite outspoken, partly because the Belt and Road Initiative includes violation of Indian sovereign claims," Mr Pillsbury said.
"But the US government, until now and this is a five-year-old initiative if you count the early part of it, has been silent," he said.
Praising the Trump administration for its new Indo-Pacific strategy, the former Pentagon official said in recent days people have heard more than 50 times by members of the Trump administration including the president himself mentioning a "free and open" Indo-Pacific region.
"The Chinese have already attacked this. They don't like it," said Mr Pillsbury, who is considered an authority on China-related issues.
