China expels offer by its agent in India to rename CPEC from discourse transcript

Beijing: In a political shame, China has evacuated the comments of its agent in India offering to rename the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) from the transcript of his discourse posted on the Chinese international safe haven site.

Trying to mollify India's worries, represetative Luo had offered to rename the CPEC which goes through Pakistan-possessed Kashmir, demanding it was a monetary collaboration and availability improvement extend without "power issues".

He likewise pushed for New Delhi's cooperation in the 'One Belt One Road' (OBOR) extend.

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Alluding to the CPEC, which is a piece of OBOR, he said China has no expectation to get required in the power and regional debate amongst India and Pakistan and that the venture is for advancing monetary collaboration and availability in the area.

"It has no associations with or affect on power issues. Indeed, even we can consider renaming the CPEC. China and India have had effective experience of delinking sway debate from two-sided relations before," he had said in shut entryway deliver to a research organization last Friday.

In the mean time in Beijing, China's Foreign Ministry parried inquiries over the Chinese government office evacuating the abundantly pitched offer of renaming the CPEC from Luo's discourse. 

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US navigation operations in South China Sea not an act of provocation: White House

Strongly refuting Chinese allegations, the US has said that its freedom of navigation operations in the South China Sea is not an act of provocation, two days after an American navy ship sailed close to a disputed reef in the area.

The US, on the other hand, reaffirmed concerns of the international community, particularly of the countries in the region, against Chinese movements and actions in the resource- rich sea.


However, the White House yesterday refused to describe the situation in the South China Sea as headed towards tension.

"I would not describe it that way. I think that there are concerns about China's activities in the South China Sea, (which) are well documented. Our concerns that we have raised both publicly and privately with Chinese officials at a range of levels," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters at his daily news conference yesterday.


The freedom of navigation operation that was carried out by the US forces earlier this week is relatively routine, the presidential spokesman said.

"We have done that at least a couple of times just in the last four or five months. It is not intended to be a provocative act. It is merely a demonstration of a principle that the president laid out on a number of occasions, which is that the US will fly, operate and sail anywhere that international law allows," Earnest said, adding that th ..


A US navy ship sailed close to a disputed reef in the South China Sea on Tuesday. The guided missile destroyer, USS William P Lawrence, passed within 22-kilometres of Fiery Cross Reef, the limit of what international law regards as an island's territorial sea. The reef is now an island with an airstrip, harbour and burgeoning above-ground infrastructure.

Chinese authorities monitored and issued warnings to the US destroyer when it passed.

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