Opinion: Modi likes to project muscular nationalism — except when it comes to China
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend the BRICS summit in Goa, India, in 2016. By Barkha Dutt Barkha Dutt Email Bio Follow March 22 Last year, Narendra Modi, speaking in Russia about India’s relationship with China, boasted that “not a single bullet has been fired” by either country despite a 40-year-old border dispute.
Its commitment to invest $60 billion in a China-Pakistan Economic Corridor , a network of infrastructural projects, is part of its larger aim to counter the rise of India in Asia. China has long used its economic investments for strategic expansionism, especially in countries that share a border with India. Whether it’s Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka or the Maldives, China has dangled investments in exchange for influence.
In other ironies, the BJP, an otherwise hypernationalist ruling party, has put few restrictions on China’s infiltration of the Indian markets. A trade deficit that hit $63 billion in 2017 to 2018 has seen Chinese goods displace Indian manufacturers. Chinese companies have taken control of 51 percent of India’s smartphone market in just one example of its economic neo-imperialism.
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