China plans to build railways through Chittagong print media exclaimed threat to Indian backyard

China Economic network Beijing, September 19 (Liu Dani) The Times of India (India) today published an article saying that if the Chinese "Bead chain strategy" is not vigilant and appropriate response, the Indian government will sooner or later in the Sino-Indian relations into a passive position. The article said China has already invested heavily in Pakistan, Burma and Sri Lanka to build a number of ports, and is now planning to construct a railway directly through Burma to Chittagong, Bangladesh. The waters have been seen by New Delhi authorities as the "strategic backyard" of India. In addition, China plans to invest in deep-water port on Sonadia Island in Karlsbazar, Bangladesh.　　Once these projects are completed, an invisible bead chain will appear around India, the article said. India's security ministry, China watchers, said the recent close contacts between Beijing and Dhaka may have reached agreement on the two projects.　　In an article in The Times of India, the governor of Yunnan Province, Qin Guangrong, last month met with visiting Bangladeshi Prime Minister Hasina Sheikh Hasina, pledging to fully support the 111-kilometer rail development case linking the two countries.　　According to the report, the shortest distance from the Chittagong of Yunnan to Bangladesh is only 111 km, and China's reliance on the Malacca Strait will be greatly reduced if the railway is built to connect. "China has built some infrastructure and transported some mechanical equipment in Chittagong," an Indian security official told The Times of India. The official said: "The presence of Chinese forces in Chittagong or will pose a security threat to India – Bangladesh has always been India's strategic backyard." He added: "If China is really going to compete with India in the Indian Ocean, India is clearly not a rival." The report quoted analysts as saying that China's "bead Chain Strategy" is an intangible chain, from the eastern African Seychelles, Mauritius through the Indian Ocean Maldives, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh has been extended to South Asia, Burma and Cambodia. This invisible chain can safeguard China's commercial interests in importing crude oil and mineral resources from the African Middle East.