China’s One Belt One Road Strategy: Its Implications for India

China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) Strategy or the new Silk Route is a ambitious approach towards global challenges and opportunities. This outward-oriented strategy of China attempts to encourage new trade and connectivity throughout Asia with road and maritime links to Africa, the Middle East and on towards Europe. China's Belt Road Initiative is a recourse towards making investment abroad and build diplomatic, economic and strategic links. The President Xi Jinping introduced the concept of ‘Silk Route Economic Belt’ (SREB) and the ‘21st century Maritime Silk Route’ (MSR) were major initiative initially packaged and labeled under the overarching term ‘One Belt, One Road’ (OBOR) or ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ (BRI). India has strongly criticized the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) policy; a major element One Belt One Road (OBOR). CPEC passes through Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) and it violates India's sovereignty. Hence the paper seeks to analyse the One Belt One Road Strategy of China and it's implications towards India. The purpose of this paper is aslo to explore implications of One Belt One Road initiative for global future development.