India on Friday skipped Beijing’s Belt and Road forum for a second time in protest against the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) even as Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said that the controversial project has entered a new phase and would go further ahead.
India sternly opposes the CPEC, a key artery of the Belt and Road project that cuts through PaK, New Delhi’s raison d’etre for staying away from the trillion-dollar connectivity scheme.
Like the launch of the Belt and Road forum in 2017, India gave the second edition of the summit a miss over the CPEC.
India not approving the corridor has become a sticky point in its relations with China.
