It is hard to figure out why the US is expressing annoyance
with India, as President Donald Trump showed unexpected irritation during his
visit to India and expressed it openly in a huge gathering which was arranged
by PM Narendra Modi in his honour. PM Modi was looking visually distressed and
upset while President Donald Trump was showing annoyance aggressively. The
relations between the two were not the same they had during the visit of PM
Modi to New York. In a public show in September 2019, he shared the stage with
US President Donald Trump at the gala ‘Howdy, Modi’ in Houston, in which both
pledged to nurture bilateral relations. It looked like PM Modi and President
Donald Trump had perhaps grown closer.
Later in November 2019, ‘Blue Dot Network’ BDN was formally
announced at the Indo-Pacific Business Forum in Bangkok, Thailand on the
sidelines of the 35th ASEAN Summit by Australia, US and Japan. Led by United
States International Development Corporation (DFC), Australia’s Department of
Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and the Japanese Bank for International
Cooperation (JBIC) joined the Blue Dot Network concept. The project was a
visible tentative response to the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) by the
USA to further assess connectivity in Indo-pacific regions to create an
alternate attraction for the investors and to pull the investment from China by
luring in the investors to these new industrial hubs which was to be offered
via Indian platform.
The major difference between the USA’s BDN and Chinese BRI is that the Chinese initiative is at a more advanced stage than the BDN which still seems to be in its initial phase. This project was all dependent on its physical location and USA was under the impression that India will provide land and logistic as per US’ desire and earlier understanding reached with India.
A false flag was raised that the pandemic will force the
investors to pull out from BRI. India in its short sightedness, bought this
idea where India and the US were almost sure that investors were now keen to
pull out their investments from BRI and shift operations out of China. India
had already offered 461,589 hectares of its land to the US for BDN in various
parts of India to attract investors.
China controlled the situation on an emergency basis and
restored production, import and export unexpectedly. PM Modi realised that a
bird in hand is better than two in the bush and the US realised that India is
avoiding its commitment to provide land and other logistics for BDN. By now,
this plan of BDN in India becoming known is creating an uncomfortable situation
for India.
India’s offer of land to BDN was a serious attempt to destroy
China’s industrial hub and is very intriguing. I am on record with my
statements that Modi is planning something against Pakistan & China and
China must not trust India. USA being a world power has the right to make
investment plans and it might have done the right thing but it was PM Modi who
tried to pit himself against China and subsequently, he ditched the US to
complicate its business model. It is India who was initially against One-Road
One-Belt. Now meanwhile, the United States Commission on International
Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has called for American travel sanctions and
restrictions against India’s home minister Amit Shah and other principal
leadership pointing towards the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In fact,
this hangs over Modi‘s friendship with President Donald Trump; he scrapped the
status of Kashmir and brought anti-Muslim law in India. I hope USA will now
have it reversed to give relief to Indian Muslims and oppressed Kashmiris. It
is hard to understand why at this point of time when BDN was blocked by India
instead of going forward. There are certain reports emanating from India itself
that Indian advisors had advised Modi not to undertake this new venture
against China which will be ultimately detrimental to India as it will destroy
the India economy.
In conclusion it can be stated that India had plotted a deep
conspiracy against China in plans to destroy BRI with an alternative and
attractive business plan. The opposition of India must demand facts before it
is exposed by a third party. The day is not far away when the world will know
the evil designs of PM Modi against China and Pakistan including CEPC. PM Modi
first lost his credibility in his own country by destroying its economy,
hate-mongering and promulgating highly anti-Muslim discriminatory laws and
support to RSS and now it has lost his face by ditching USA.
The Article was published in The Nation on May 10, 2020, Link to the original article is https://nation.com.pk/10-May-2020/dubious-pm-modi
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