TIL Desk/World/Beijing-China is “unlikely” to give up on the USD 46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor being built through PoK despite India’s protests but it may not be interested in taking sides in the Kashmir dispute due to close economic ties with both nations, state-run media said today. “It is regrettable to see CPEC become another unharmonious factor in Sino-India ties, but China is unlikely to give up on the idea of CPEC because of India’s protest,” an article.
“In fact, the economic corridor, linking northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to Gwadar Port in southwestern Pakistan, does not target any third party, India included. Given that China has developed close economic ties with both India and Pakistan in recent years, Beijing is unlikely to be interested in taking a side between the two countries,” it said.
Significantly, the article uses the term “Pakistan- occupied Kashmir” (PoK) twice even though at one place it makes the mention attributing it to Indian media reports. “Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj voiced India’s concerns over the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which passes through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), during Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s India trip, Indian media reported,” the article said.
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