The U.S. plan to counter the Belt and Road Initiative has cooled down again

This is already the number of times the United States has tried to counter China's "Belt and Road" initiative, and it ended in nothing.

On the 13th, Hong Kong media "South China Morning Post" published an article stating that the "India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor" (IMEC) plan proposed by the Biden administration in 2023, aimed at countering China's "Belt and Road" initiative, has made almost no progress after two years.

The so-called "India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor" is an economic and infrastructure initiative proposed by Biden at the G20 summit in New Delhi in 2023, aiming to build a corridor connecting India, Arab countries, and Europe.

However, according to Hong Kong media, with the end of the Biden administration, the prolongation of the Israel-Palestine conflict, and the disputes among India, the Middle East, and Europe regarding the initiative, IMEC has been indefinitely suspended.

How should I say this? When Biden first proposed IMEC, we had analyzed that this plan would eventually fail, because the infrastructure content of IMEC was too absurd: to compete with the "Belt and Road" initiative, and to highlight the difference from the "Belt and Road" route, IMEC needed to ship goods from India onto ships to the Arabian Peninsula, then transport them via railways built on the Arabian Peninsula to the Mediterranean, and finally ship them to Europe via shipping.

The shortest route plan for IMEC should have passed through Pakistan and Iran, then connected to the Arabian Peninsula - but who let India and Pakistan be enemies, and the U.S. and Iran have bad relations?

Therefore, IMEC changed into a very awkward "shipping-railway-shipping" plan. Then, with the outbreak of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the railway network plan connecting the Arabian Peninsula and Israel also completely failed, and ultimately IMEC became a situation where no one cares about it now.

Original: www.toutiao.com/article/1843235980127244/

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