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Towards an alternative regional bloc in South Asia Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
China’s attempts to make inroads into South Asia continue.
The latest one is the establishment of the China–South Asian Countries Poverty Alleviation and Cooperative Development Centre in Chongqing City on Thursday.
Of the eight members of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), which is almost in a coma, five have joined the Beijing-led initiative.
India, Bhutan and the Maldives are conspicuous by their absence.
Diplomats and security experts say that the initiative launched by Beijing, which is a minus India alliance created when the SAARC process is stalled, is to counter India and aims to build China’s inroads into the region and that it carries a significant underlying geostrategic meaning.
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The proof of the pudding Kathmandu Post
Nepal, July 12 China on Thursday established the China-South Asian Countries Poverty Alleviation and Cooperative Development Centre at a programme organised to commemorate the centenary of the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party in the presence of the ambassadors of five South Asian countries-Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The Centre s stated aim is to focus on humanitarian projects as China is increasingly keen to expand its soft power in its neighbourhood. As South Asian countries struggle to come out of poverty, the Chinese initiative to support them sounds pretty reasonable. But there are several caveats.
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