{"id":420127,"date":"2021-06-14T09:56:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T04:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=420127"},"modified":"2021-06-14T11:13:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T05:43:15","slug":"india-says-it-will-study-bidens-infrastructure-plan-that-rivals-chinas-bri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-says-it-will-study-bidens-infrastructure-plan-that-rivals-chinas-bri\/","title":{"rendered":"India says it will study Biden&#8217;s infrastructure plan that rivals China&#8217;s BRI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India has said that it will study the US President Joe Biden&#8217;s &#8216;Build Back Better&#8217; global infrastructure initiative proposal announced at the G7 summit as an alternative to China&#8217;s Belt and Road (BRI).<\/p>\n<p>This plan, which is proposed to be led by major democracies, will provide financial and technological help to narrow the over USD 40 trillion-infrastructure need, mainly in the developing world which has been worsened by COVID-19. <\/p>\n<p>It is also expected to create local employment. This initiative at G7 is seen as a potential jolt to Chinese President Xi Jinping&#8217;s pet project BRI.<\/p>\n<p>India said relevant agencies will be studying the plan and will probably engage with the project later. Briefing reporters, senior ministry of external affairs (MEA) official P Harish said,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India has said that it will study the US President Joe Biden&#8217;s &#8216;Build Back Better&#8217; global infrastructure initiative proposal announced at the G7 summit as an alternative to China&#8217;s Belt and Road (BRI). This plan, which is proposed to be led by major democracies, will provide financial and technological help to narrow the over USD 40 trillion-infrastructure need, mainly in the developing world which has been worsened by COVID-19. It is also expected to create local employment. This initiative at G7 is seen as a potential jolt to Chinese President Xi Jinping&#8217;s pet project BRI. India said relevant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-roads-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}