... thinking with a transition from Geostrategy to Geoeconomics. Pakistan, not the EU, understands the game of Geoeconomics on a continental scale.
With a friendly government now ruling Afghanistan with a focus on making Afghanistan a continental connector to CPEC and China’s land bridge railroad via Central Asia and Russia to the EU, and with the cultivation of good relations with Iran and Russia, all Eurasia is open for Pakistan. When India sooner or later makes Peace with Pakistan and builds land connections from ...
... was meant to induce a reset in ties, notwithstanding the bonhomie and geniality that was manifest, it would be risky to consider the bedevilling issues stemming from Chinese imperviousness to strident Indian criticism over the sovereignty contravening China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) component within the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The Chinese refusal to allow Indian candidature of NSG membership decoupled from that of Pakistan, that is viewed and regarded as deeply and qualitatively odious, by the latter, and the nature ...
... India’s stance on CPEC that it passes through the disputed territories recently obtained support by US and now Afghanistan is in the same camp. These all states should not undermine the prospects of development in the disputed territories through CPEC by China and Pakistan, otherwise they are negating the Sustainable Development Goals cannot be considered universal.
There are some tumultuous factors which are contributing in the growing Indo-Afghan nexus. First; historically India was the only South Asian ...
