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US backs India's stand on OBOR, says it crosses 'disputed' territory

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The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) passes through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), over which India has conveyed its protests to China
The Trump administration today threw its weight behind India’s opposition to China’s ambitious China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), saying the $ 50 billion project passes through „disputed territory“ and no country should dictate the Belt and Road initiative.
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) passes through Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK), over which India has conveyed its protests to China. The area covers Karakoram mountain ranges, including the Siachen glacier.
„In a globalised world, there are many belts and many roads, and no one nation should put itself into a position of dictating ‚one belt, one road‘,“ US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee during a Congressional hearing.
„That said, the One Belt One Road (OBOR) also goes through disputed territory, and I think, that in itself shows the vulnerability of trying to establish that sort of a dictate,“ Mattis said apparently referring to India’s position on CPEC.

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