• Debashis Chakrabarti

Abstract The Chinese geo-economic corridors under the country’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative touching the remotest corners of Asia has caused a conflict of interest between the China and India. India has been concerned because the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a part of OBOR, undermines India’s sovereignty claims in the part of Kashmir under control of Pakistan, besides fearing encirclement due to growing Chinese influence in Pakistan, Myanmar and Nepal. These factors aggravate the mutual distrust caused by festering border dispute that led to the 1962 war. This paper uses the framing analysis method to trace the elements of conflict arising out of the Chinese corridors. The findings suggest that these developments have provoked negative portrayal of Sino-Indian relationship, has intensified the perceived threat that Chinese funding in Pakistan is meant for disturbing the power dynamics in South Asia and such change in dynamics has created scope for the meaningful existence of strategic relationship of these countries with US and Japan.

Conflict, Corridors, India, China, South Asia, Framing

" Framing the Conflict of Corridors between China and South Asia", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.429-430, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906I89.pdf

" Framing the Conflict of Corridors between China and South Asia", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp429-430, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906I89.pdf