Why India’s new US-backed trade corridor to Europe is no ‘anti-China project’ for the Middle East

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST

Narendra Modi has great expectations for the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) he helped unveil to great fanfare at the G20 summit in New Delhi earlier this month, but observers say not all nations involved in the belt and road alternative view it as an “anti-China project”.

The creation of a seamless logistical corridor linking India to southern Europe – via ports, railways and roads in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Israel – would expand Delhi’s sphere of influence and offer a viable alternative to an “International North-South Transport Corridor” through Iran and Russia that’s long struggled to get off the ground.

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