This refers to India’s boycott of China’s two-day One Belt One Road (OBOR) summit. India is wary of the contentious China-Pakistan Economic corridor (CPEC), and the OBOR is seen as a ‘highway’ to make the CPEC a reality. China's much desired access to the Arabian sea through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir does not portend well for India. Chinese President Xi Jinping, during his inaugural address at the summit, declared that countries should “respect each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty”. Therefore, he must take the lead. India has been vehemently protesting against China going overboard over the CPEC.
India should go all the way to convince world leaders that it only wants to protect itself from external threats, and that this boycott of the OBOR is only a step in that direction. New Delhi has to ensure the cooperation of its close neighbours such as Sri lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal to augment a parallel south Asian connectivity to send firm signals to Beijing. India has asserted that any international connectivity plan should be strongly rooted in established norms, able governance, financial responsibility and transparency. India's projects under Act East, Neighbourhood First and Go West policies solidly adhere to all acceptable and reasonable rules of the law. China should take a leaf out of it.