The growing terrorist risk to Chinese citizens residing in Pakistan and differences over debt repayments have hindered the progress in the Belt and Road Initiative's projects of Islamabad and Beijing.
The New Delhi Declaration after the conclusion of the summit under India's presidency stated that Russia, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan reaffirmed their support to the BRI.
In his address at the Shanghai Cooperation (SCO) meeting on Tuesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping reiterated Beijing's stand of enhancing Belt and Road cooperation.
According to the publication, a couple of years ago, China had warned Bangladesh from joining the Indo-Pacific initiatives, which was launched by the US, but under Sheikh Hasina, the government firmly told Beijing that they would follow their own foreign policy.
Confusion has gripped Nepal's diplomatic circles after China is unilaterally listing one project after another in Nepal under the Belt and Road Initiative.
Amidst the tension between US-China, Beijing's influence has reached the Caribbean as the 10 nations of the region have participated in the "Belt and Road" initiative, which is a big issue for Washington DC.
According to analysts, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan's (TTP) urge to control the country's south threatens to be a huge problem for restoring multibillion-dollar infrastructure projects under China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRO), reported Nikkei Asia.
India has improved relations with the industrialised members of the Group of Seven (G7). This year, India participated in the G7 Summit in Japan and has been actively acting as a link between the Global South and the camp of developed democratic countries
In a move to counter China's expanding influence in the Indo-Pacific region, Japan has joined forces with the United States and Australia to sign an agreement on a USD 95 million undersea cable project.
China is using an aggressive approach of employing Private Security Companies (PSCs) to mitigate the security risks for Chinese nationals in Africa. These PSCs are armed with sophisticated weapons and surveillance systems
China's Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Sun Weidong invited Sri Lankan President, Ranil Wickremesinghe, to China for a conference on China's Belt and Road initiative. Wickremesinghe might be trying to go to China to discuss debt restructuring.