• Hutoka Sumi

Abstracts China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is an ambitious initiative intending to reshape the economic environment along its route in the fields of commerce, investment, and energy supply. Its main point is that China, Eurasia, South Asia, and the Indian Ocean are all connected. China has a lot of strategic potential in South Asia because of its location. Beijing is trying to increase its economic influence in the subcontinent by investing in infrastructure development, especially the building of seaports. With more Chinese trade and investment in the area, Beijing is also increasing its diplomatic power in what has been thought of for a long time as India's sphere of influence. Due to a long history of strategic hostility and unresolved territorial issues, New Delhi doesn't trust Beijing's intentions and is worried about Beijing's growing influence in a region that New Delhi has long thought of as its sphere of influence. In this situation, the BRI could make competition between China and India worse, and the Modi government has studied and taken steps to oppose China's diplomatic moves. It's still not clear if and how Asia's rising powers can reduce their lack of trust and find ways to work together in ways made possible by the BRI, working toward a cooperative, win-win future for Sino-Indian relations and the region as a whole. The goals of this paper are to study the on Belt and Road Initiative in relation with South Asian Countries and also see how China engage with South Asian Countries from the infrastructural invest and manner of giving loan. This paper seek to understand as to how India respond to China’s Belt and Road Initiative, it concerns and opportunities.

Belt and Road Initative, Pakistan, CPEC, South Asia, India, China, Infrastructural Investment, Asian Development Bank, BIMSTEC,BBIN, Indian Ocean Region, Silk Road Economic Belt, OBOR, EXIM BANK

"Belt and Road Initiative in South Asia: India as a Factor", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 1, page no.b572-b580, January-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2301178.pdf

"Belt and Road Initiative in South Asia: India as a Factor", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 1, page no. ppb572-b580, January-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2301178.pdf