Who benefits from the Sino-Pakistan corridor?

The CPEC poses a clear and imminent danger to Indian security interests

The announcement on April 12 that China has approved additional financing for infrastructure projects in Pakistan under the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), taking the total investment to $62 billion, has been largely ignored by the Indian media, even though it has serious implications for Pakistan, China and the region.

The CPEC, a collection of infrastructure projects originally valued at $46 billion in 2014, has seen a cost escalation of nearly 40 per cent. The CPEC aims to develop the port of Gwadar in Baluchistan and link it with a network of highways and railways to western China passing through the