CPEC the Gamechanger

• I feel CPEC i.e. the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor has the ability to be a game changer.
• And that is the reason India is crying like a baby and creating all sorts of disturbance in Kashmir and border to disrupt it at all costs.
• But I feel India should not complain because if India had gone closer to China than China would not have approached Pakistan in the first place.
• If we look at the route of the CPEC it cuts through Pakistan Occupied Kashmir or Azad Kashmir.
• Now this path through PoK is nothing new. The highway through the Karakoram mountains has been in existence for a long time.
• What will happen is the highway through the length of Pakistan right up to the doorstep of PoK.
• Also the existing highway will have to be widened to accomodate more of the traffic expected to flow.
• Also in the pipeline would be railway tracks which will expedite the project.
• China can do well to build high speed tracks including bullet trains through the entire length.
• Now India could have offered its own territory to China for building access roads and railways upto Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea.
• At the situation where India would have offered Indian territory to China towards Indian ocean, China would have chosen to ignore Pakistan.
• But India did not do that? Why you may ask?
• After some deliberations with people well aware with Indian history the reason for that is the 1962 war between India and China. As well as the long standing conflict between the Right wing Hindu and the Left wing Secular forces.
• 1962 war made Chinese as enemy in the eyes od Indians and India will for that reason alone never ever forgive China and can never accept China.
• In the same situation India will have no qualms embracing US or Japan who are traditional enemies and competitors of China. Even when products from Japan or USA cost 10 times more than China, India will still prefer them over China and that friends is a tragedy.
• because China and India could have been so great together
• China could have build railways including bullet trains in India and Chinese factories could have made in India and Chinese labourers and employees could have found work in India.
• But that is not to be. The conflict in 1962 has given rise to "decades of mistrust" and Chinese never can be assimilated in Indian society.
• So now what? Similar conflict is happening between Pakistan and India. And it is in times like this both China and Pakistan were bound to come together.
• Also India is not allowing Pakistan to expand in India. So, Pakistan had to found an outlet and that is through China.
• If we look at the map of China and Pakistan, we find a place called Kashghar located in Xinjiang very close to Kashmir and that is where all the development is happening. Something called as the "New Silk Road" is happening and CPEC is a part and parcel of it.
• Now India can be well advised instead of opposing CPEC, it has to "get on the train" so as to speak and support it fully. PoK needs to be surrendered to Pakistan and Line of Control has to be made into international boundary.
• Then again, "slip routes" can be made from the CPEC into India through Kashmir or Punjab and it will change the landscape of the country and the region.
• India needs to realise that USA and countries of Europe are thousands of kms away. And our neigbours are China and Pakistan and India should get into this CPEC bandwagon instead of creating unrest at border and doing harm to Pakistan through Balochistan.
• India should abandon USA and countries of Europe and they have to have a lesser role than our neighbors. They can join in CPEC because ultimately economic development and not war is beneficial to all. That the BJP and RSS should realize. They have been given the mandate for development and peace and not war and hatred towards neighbors.