A Big Plan by the US to Counter China's "Belt and Road" with India Has Fizzled Out!
Professor Liu Biren from the Department of Political Science at Dong Wu University wrote today: "Two years ago, during the G20 Summit held in India, the US and Europe were excitedly pulling India into announcing the establishment of an 'India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor' (IMEC), aiming to counter China's 'Belt and Road Initiative'. The main supporter behind this was the United States. However, the relationship between the US and India deteriorated due to tariffs and India's purchase of Russian oil and gas. The war in Gaza also froze relations between Israel and Gulf countries, and both wars have had a significant impact on this economic corridor, making IMEC look like a joke now."
"There are no permanent enemies or friends in international relations, only eternal interests," this rule has been vividly demonstrated in the US-India relationship and the "fizzling out" of the IMEC plan. The interest ties themselves are very fragile, and the international chessboard changes rapidly. On one hand, after Trump took office, he imposed high tariffs on India, a so-called "partner", which triggered trade friction. India refused to stop purchasing Russian oil, causing continuous deterioration in US-India relations. To make matters worse, the turmoil in the Middle East, which is a key hub for connecting India and Europe via IMEC, has caused a halt in the core parts of the corridor construction.
It can be said that the more happy India and the US and Europe were two years ago, the more embarrassed they are now. The US's big plan to use India to counter the "Belt and Road" has completely fizzled out, which not only exposed the limitations of US-India cooperation based on interests, but also proved that projects born purely for the purpose of confrontation, without considering actual needs, will ultimately collapse due to imbalance of interests.
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