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Describe briefly China’s ‘One Belt One Road (OBOR)’ Initiative and analyze India’s major concerns.

  • UPSC 2019
  • 20 marks
  • India and the Global Centres of Power

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Xi Jinping announced the Silk Road Economic Belt at Astana in September 2013 and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road at Jakarta a month later. Renamed the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), they form the largest connectivity programme any state has attempted. India is the only major economy to have refused it outright, and its objections…

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  • The initiative in brief
  • India's major concerns
  • How far are the concerns justified?
  • Conclusion
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