| Popis: |
The geopolitics of the Silk Road Strategy envisages a regional integration plan that could benefit Central Asia and other major external powers—mainly the US, China, and Russia. The talk of Central Asia–South Asia integration in the US Silk Road Strategy is very attractive on the face of it. The Chinese have their own Silk Road Strategy that envisages creating a transport corridor from China’s eastern coast of Lianyungang to Rotterdam via Xinjiang and Central Asia. The Russians have their own Eurasian integration strategy. India has multiple options to take advantage of the various integration projects going on in Central Asia. While India can open up links to China and access Central Asia through Chinese-created corridors, it can also revive routes through Pakistan and Afghanistan, which linked India to the “Old Silk Road”. However, prospects of India using these old corridors depends on improvements in relations between India and China and Pakistan, which at least in the regional context face great difficulties. |
