Cultural Aspect of Belt and Road Initiative and Project Mausam: Strategy for Engagement

Contemporary International Relations  2017,27(06),151-165

Rajiv Ranjan* 

Abstract: The paper seeks to examine the cultural aspects of the two initiatives to justify the fact that enhancing cultural connections is a two way process and would certainly enable both civilizations to learn from each other. B&R’s people-to-people bond strategy and Mausam’s initiative to revive cultural linkages are not contradictory in nature but supplement each other. In the backdrop of Doklam Stand-off, the shaken mutual trust between the two neighbors can be healed by further increasing cultural and people-to-people contacts.

Keywords: Belt and Road Initiative; Project Mausam; culture; Asian power, China-India