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India promotes its own trade route in Central Asia as Putin bulldozes BRI

Vikrant Thardak by Vikrant Thardak
April 7, 2022
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The war in Ukraine has brought the curtains down on China’s BRI projects in Europe. The West has sanctioned Russia. Now, any goods passing through Russia stand the risk of not being allowed circulation in European markets. 

Russia-Ukraine war snaps China’s BRI

And that’s where the problem begins for China. China’s Eurasian land bridge, being developed under its BRI scheme, passes through Russia. And it’s not possible for China to realign the corridor. A massive chunk of the project lies in Russian territory! So, all in all, the Eurasian arm of China’s BRI is almost defunct now, and capitalizing on China’s miseries, India is eying to aggressively market its trade route in the region.

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India boosts its International North-South Transport Corridor

For those unaware, India already has an active trade route in the region, which is now increasingly getting acceptance among the international community. The International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) is a 7,200-km-long multi-mode network of ship, rail, and road routes for moving freight between India, Iran, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Russia, Central Asia, and Europe. 

The Scope for INSTC in the Evolving India-Baltic Relations | Diplomatist
(Source: The Diplomatist)

The route primarily involves moving freight from India, Iran, Azerbaijan, Russia via ship, rail, and road. However, this India-backed trade route was presented with significant challenges due to China’s BRI and the Western sanctions on Iran. 

Now, due to the Russia-Ukraine war, not only has the Chinese BRI outlived its utility but all trading channels of the Russian Federation have also been snapped. So, it presents India with a golden opportunity to promote the International North-South Transport Corridor. 

India’s INSTC push in Turkmenistan

Perhaps, that’s why India’s President Ram Nath Kovind recently visited Turkmenistan amid the ongoing crisis in Europe. Kovind met his Turkmen counterpart Serdar Berdimuhamedov to expand bilateral trade and energy cooperation. The two leaders also highlighted the significance of the International North-South Transport Corridor.

India’s Times Now News reported that global traders are now looking to transport goods through the INSTC since other routes are no longer viable to reach destinations like Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Ukraine. 

INSTC: The only viable route to reach the CIS region

Traders can’t use the Black Sea due to the ongoing war in Ukraine. The other option is to use China’s Qingdao port to reach Russia. However, due to the surging covid-19 crisis and increased restrictions, Chinese ports are experiencing prolonged clogging and traffic jams. So, using INSTC to reach this vast market of the Commonwealth of Independent States is the only viable option available to traders as of now. 

 

India’s diplomatic clout is one of the strongest in the world. India is a close strategic partner of both Russia and the US. New Delhi has always tried to use this clout to isolate China on the global stage. Now, the Russia-Ukraine war has allowed India to render China’s BRI in the Eurasian region utterly redundant and boost its own trading route instead. This will help India scuttle China’s ambitions of strengthening its influence in the Central Asian and Eastern European region and grow its own economic and diplomatic clout at the expense of China.

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  1. Avatar Aravind Gopal says:
    10 months ago

    I was initially interested in seeing where the author was going with this but it seems to be incoherent rambling- Russia’s days are done for and we shouldn’t be worried about trade with them or a trade route via Russia until Putin’s regime is changed in Russia. For now, using our long established Commonwealth trade connections and the new trade links with developing and developed economies is our best bet – pushing forward free trade between all democratic countries and people centric governments.

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    • Avatar Indian girls on UK tinder says:
      10 months ago

      Incoherent is an accurate description. Besides coming off like a KKK hate speech on site it is also thoroughly poorly constructed, lacking proper format or even funding all around, low English level low IQ permeates every article that a 12 year old could seemingly write better.

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