China is opening up its land borders in Xinjiang to interact more freely with Central Asia and Europe. China and Pakistan are jointly building the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor, which passes through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. India views this as a violation of its sovereignty. Geopolitics rather than geoeconomics predominates India’s thinking on possibilities offered by the revival of the old Silk Road by the Chinese.
For too long the West has considered itself to be the centre for organised interventions in sovereign states. Any competitor that challenges its monopoly is the villain that deserves the wrath of Western media. In Syria, Russia is the newest among the human rights violators that are being demonised with "fake news."
