The Chinese plan to infiltrate other countries under the guise of philanthropy failed

- Belt and Road Initiative

- Hotline-Bhal Chandra Jani

- The territorialist China had a long-standing insidious policy behind this project. China was in the process of expanding its reach to 80 countries through this road

It seems that now it is China's turn to suffer as the rest of the world worries. China has used its vast wealth and military to feed its regionalism with various tricks and tactics, but China is now mired in economic crisis due to its own sins. One of the plans that China has made to encircle the world is the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

Five years ago, China launched the One Belt One Road project with a long-term plan to reach Asia, Europe, Africa, but now after five years, the project has encountered many obstacles.

China introduced this ambitious project to about 80 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and South America. Behind this project was a long-term insidious policy of territorialist China. China was in the process of expanding its reach to 80 countries through this road. The 900 billion dollar project is currently facing various forms of opposition in many countries. Somewhere due to economic constraints and someplace due to local people's opposition, this project has slowed down. This project has been stuck in countries like Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar due to one reason or another. Not only this, there is an internal pull for this project in China's loyal country Pakistan.

For the last five years, China has started building roads everywhere in the name of the Silk Road scheme. China has announced a five-year plan to dominate South Asia through Tibet. China has started construction of a road to connect South Asia with Tibet. As part of this, China is in the process of reaching the Arctic. Arctic ice is melting due to global warming. In the future, China wants to deploy the army in that area by building the Polar Silk Road. On the pretext of protecting its ships, China wants to increase its influence in the whole world by setting up military bases all over the Silk Road.

In 2013, China announced the Belt and Road Initiative. China announced the One Belt One Road plan in the name of reviving the ancient Silk Route. China is expanding its foothold around the world on the pretext that this road will be very convenient for trade. In the name of this plan, China wants to reach the Gulf countries, African countries and Europe besides Asia. As a part of that plan, China has started constructions everywhere and Chinese companies are spending billions of dollars behind it.

China is now preparing to establish its military outposts in Pakistan and Afghanistan. In fact, China has invested heavily in Pakistan and Afghanistan under its Belt and Road Initiative. Now he wants to build outposts and keep his soldiers and generals there for his security.

China has so far invested more than 60 billion dollars in Pakistan. The situation has become such that Pakistan has now become dependent on China not only economically but also politically and militarily.

China has now started putting pressure on Pakistan, it has already told Pakistan to allow it to build military outposts. Observers make it clear that Pakistan has no other option but to accept China's demand.

The real question before China is the Taliban, their rule in Afghanistan, both China and Pakistan know exactly that the Taliban has not given any room (not given importance) to either of them. They will not tolerate China's interference there.

Observers also say that China will not only get caught in a bear trap in Afghanistan but also in Balochistan and Singh. There is great hatred against the Chinese in both these regions. It is well known that the Chinese engineers who developed the Gwadar port in Balochistan were fatally attacked.

Similarly, there is almost a 'Jihad' against the Chinese in Singh, where a Chinese professor teaching Chinese language (Mandarin) was killed.

Apart from this, the China-Pakistan-Economic Corridor (BHEIB) formed on the path of the Belt and Road Initiative is also unlikely to succeed. Because this route (corridor) starting from the city of Tsian in North China will go from the desert region of Xingyang to the border province of Pakistan and spread into Afghanistan and reach up to Gwadar in Balochistan. But all the areas through which the route passes are deserts, so China cannot extract any onions here. Here the economy is only in its primary stage and it has been in that state for centuries, so it is clear that China has made political and military calculations rather than economic calculations in Bhaibh and Belt and Road Initiative.

China's very big ambitious plan has now been overshadowed by the corona virus, recession and other natural calamities. Along with this, Chinese President Xi Jinping's dream of establishing a new world order is on the verge of collapse. In fact, China intended to kill two birds with one stone through this plan. Chinese President Xi Jinping is keen to create a new global order under the BRI (Belt Road Initiative) plan, while also intimidating and socially enclosing India, and for this reason India has been opposed to the plan from the very beginning. India understood China's intentions only when China initially presented this plan and our far-sighted leaders and officials understood China's encirclement of India.

And this is why India has already been opposing this plan and India has repeatedly expressed its opposition to this plan at various international fora.

If this plan gets a break, China's policy of encircling India by building its own enclaves called 'String of Pearls' will suffer a major setback. Apart from this there is another big concern before India. In fact, China has given huge loans to India's neighboring countries Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal under this scheme. Now, if this plan fails, China can trap these countries in its python trap. If these countries fail to pay the debts, China can make the mandates its own annexation. It can be blackmailed and if it does, it will pose a challenge to India's strategic and social interests.

In fact, under the BRI scheme, China itself lends money to the participating countries to build roads and other basic infrastructure. By doing this he can create various facilities in the country but he can also use these facilities himself. Also, the money spent to build these facilities is given to the country by China as a cheap interest loan and then collected weekly. From a country unable to pay such installments, China would confiscate part of its territory—for example, a port or an airport—for use by its military. Currently, Sri Lanka and Pakistan have to write off some of their facilities like ports due to China's debt.

China's economy has become completely unstable due to the global spread of the Corona epidemic and the growing tension between other countries due to the Ukraine-Russia war. In Adhura, China is facing serious problems like massive floods, starvation at home. This has made both new credit and investment for the BRI scheme a challenging task for China. There has been a sharp decline in China's investment over the past two years. With new political equations forming, China has become helpless to put brakes on its ambitious Belt and Road Initiative. Also, the impact of the corona virus has been greater in countries where China has invested heavily than in China.

In other words, China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which was launched with great fanfare and is considered to be very ambitious, is facing many difficulties. However, both Pakistan and China deny this. Even so, the officials of the two countries admit that all is not as rosy as it seems. There is a dispute in Pakistan regarding the effectiveness of the CPEC project, how Pakistan, which has been hit economically by the corona epidemic and the devastation of the recent floods, and China will finance the rest of the project. China is seeking an additional guarantee from Pakistan for a $6 billion loan for the main line-1 of the project. It includes upgradation of 1,872 km railway line between Peshawar and Karachi. This additional guarantee is being sought due to weak economic condition of Pakistan. When Pakistan asked for a cheap loan from China, China also refused it.

Even six years later, the suspicions that have arisen in Pakistan about CPEC since its inception have not disappeared. The promises made with the launch of CPEC to improve the economic condition of Pakistan are now looking false. According to experts, according to the current plan, it may be possible to make a third of the figure possible. For the first time, the government of Pakistan itself has admitted that China's ambitious project One Belt, One Road has harmed Pakistan instead of benefiting it.

Three years ago, Imran Khan's government in Pakistan admitted that the agreement was one-sided and only benefiting China and Chinese companies. Pakistan is not benefiting from this project so Pakistan will reconsider this agreement afresh. The previous government of Pakistan has given tax concessions to Chinese companies and most of the work is in the hands of Chinese companies, so Pakistan is not getting any financial benefit from this project.

Three months ago, the Chinese companies have threatened Pakistan that if they do not pay the amount of 30,000 crores due, then darkness will cover the whole of Pakistan. More than a dozen Chinese companies operating in Pakistan said they would have to shut down their power units this month if they do not receive their dues.

India has also made massive preparations against this deplorable move of China to fool poor African and Asian countries. The Ministry of External Affairs has launched the Trilateral Development Corporation (TDC) Fund. Through it, India is preparing to invest on a large scale in the Indian Ocean region.

The most important thing is that the government is also going to involve private companies in this project. Together with these companies, the government will invest on a large scale. Apart from the Indo-Pacific region, the fund will also invest in other sectors. India has launched the Global Innovation Partnership Fund five months ago. It is also considered as part of TDC Fund of Govt. India will work together with Japan, Germany, France and the European Union through the TDC Fund. The investment that will be made by India in the Global Innovation Partnership will be made through the TDS Fund.

Similarly, the European Commission announced a 300 billion Euro Global Gateway scheme last February to provide a better alternative to China's Belt and Road Plan. Under this plan, 300 billion euros will be invested in infrastructure, digital and climate projects by 2027.

The plan will strengthen European Union's supply chain and boost EU trade, helping to focus on digitalisation, health, environment, transport and education and research.

EU officials have said that financial aid offered by Beijing is often non-transparent and not beneficial. Especially in Africa few poor countries have become debtors and they have become dependent on China. Unlike China, the EU Global Gateway scheme will design infrastructure projects in a way that benefits local communities. Also, the private sector will be made a participant in this scheme so that capital investment will be less risky.

The EU will finance the scheme in the form of grants, loans and guarantees. This money will be provided by European institutions, governments and European financial institutions and the National Development Bank. The commission said the money would be disbursed on fair and better terms. So that governments do not have to get into the debt of any third country.

The Global Gateway plan will focus on physical infrastructure like fiber optic cables, clean transport corridors, clean power transmission lines. So digital, transport and energy networks will be strengthened.

The essence of everything is that the situation of China, which wants to surround and rob other countries, has become like a snake swallowing a mole. Now it remains to be seen how China's President Xi Jinping gets out of this mire.