All this is useless media hype. Even if Stillwell Road is opened and even if
all trade decontrolled excepting wto recommended tax collection -nothing will
work unless:1 Assam has ITS own-controlled frontier with Myanmar as in 19472
Assam works out trade deals with Yunnan and Tibet as equals with Oxomiya Toka
and RMB. I just returned after a week in Zhejiang province. That province is
better managed than anywhere in France/Europe. All busy, all
hightech,allgreen,all with humane Chinese oldworld culture in every behaviour.
And at Beijing,Bangladeshi families and groups were boarding the daily Air
China Flight via Kunming MM
Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 18:58:53 -0600From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[Assam] India Begins to Rebuild World War II Road - VOA News
Wow! out of 1700 Kms, India needs to build only 61 Kms.
"Assam state officials say a four-lane highway will be ready within six
months". That is just fantastic
The only thing that will be left is the Burmese portion of the road. If trade
picks up, that too should rapidly take place.
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India Begins to Rebuild World War II Road
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi07 May 2007
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Indian school children hold placards as they march to demand the re-opening of
the historic 'Stilwell Road,' 15 Sep 2006India has started rebuilding a
historic 60-year-old road linking its remote northeast region to southwest
China. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the route eventually could
help boost trade among India, China and Southeast Asian countries.
The Stilwell Road is a winding 1700 kilometer route hacked out of jungles
during the World War II to link India's northeastern state of Assam to China's
Yunnan province via Burma.
It was built with the help of American military engineers to allow the Allied
Army to move troops and supplies to China, then reeling under Japanese
occupation. Soon after the war ended, the road fell into disuse.
The route could now get a second lease of life, this time for trade and
transport between the world's two fastest growing economies.
Indian officials in northeastern Assam say India has started rebuilding its
side of the road, a 61-kilometer stretch to Burma.
Assam state officials say a four-lane highway will be ready within six months.
They say talks are on between the three countries to speed up opening of the
road for cross-border trade.
The momentum to open new border routes between India and China began a few
years ago as political and trade ties warmed steadily. Last year, the two
countries opened their first land trade route through a Himalayan pass known as
Nathu La (between the Indian state of Sikkim and Tibet).
An expert on Indian-Chinese affairs at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University,
Alka Acharya, says there is a broad push to increase trade and other links
between the two countries.
"We are thinking in terms of two other passes which would be opened up for
trade, and Stilwell has a history, and it is clearly part of the broader
connectivity which is happening at a very rapid pace," she said. "This would
open up a huge area for cross border connectivity."
China has already completed work on its side of the road. Burma is getting
financial help from Beijing to rebuild its stretch.
In India, the push to open the Stilwell Road is coming from the northeast - a
landlocked, underdeveloped area far removed from India's economic hubs in the
north and the west. Officials in Assam hope the road will eventually make the
region a gateway to China and Southeast Asia, and boost its economy.
Trade between India and China is increasing at a rapid pace, China is now
India's second largest trading partner. India also wants to increase economic
links with Southeast Asian countries.
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