China-led South Asian Initiative

Recently, the Foreign Minister of Bangladesh said that India can join, if it so desires, the China-led South Asian initiative for COVID-19 vaccines and poverty alleviation.

  • A meeting of the Foreign Ministers of China, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka in April preceded the decision to create the China-South Asian Countries Emergency Supplies Reserve, and a Poverty Alleviation and Cooperative Development Centre set up in China on 8th July, 2021.
  • India, Bhutan and the Maldives are not part of this initiative.

Some Key Issues

  • As regards India joining the new regional grouping, with the ongoing tensions over Chinese PLA aggression ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
To get access to detailed content
Buy September 2021 Issue

Already a Member? Login here

Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material before the last six months of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
Be an Annual Subscriber

Related Content

World Watch