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India’s BRI bet pays off

India’s stand on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) appears increasingly vindicated

When India, in May last year, became the only major absentee at Chinese President Xi Jinping's inaugural Belt and Road Forum in Beijingheld to champion his pet mega infrastructure projectNew Delhi was widely warned of its impending isolation.

When we came out with our concerns last year, recalls former envoy to China Ashok Kantha, the feeling in some quarters, including people

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