Where the Belt Meets the Road
Security in a Contested South Asia
South Asia is where three continents—Europe, Africa, and Asia—connect in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) via land corridors and Indian Ocean sea lanes. It is also where the initiative faces a gamut of serious security challenges, ranging from territorial disputes, to insurgencies, to potential naval competition, to energy security issues. This roundtable examines BRI’s security implications in South Asia, including both how China is responding to challenges there and how countries in the region as well as the United States are reacting to BRI.
Introduction
Nadège Rolland
Protecting the Belt and Road Initiative: China’s Cooperation with Pakistan to Secure CPEC
Filippo Boni
China’s Use of Private Companies and Other Actors to Secure the Belt and Road across South Asia
Meia Nouwens
Securing the Maritime Silk Road in South Asia and the Indian Ocean
Nilanthi Samaranayake
India as a Challenge to China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Gurpreet S. Khurana
The U.S. Response to the Belt and Road Initiative: Answering New Threats with New Partnerships
Arzan Tarapore
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