It regardsGwadar portaspart ofChina's so-called string of pearls, a chainofports in Bangladesh, Burma, Sri LankaandPakistan that New Delhithinks is designed to encircleIndia.
It has also leased a 12, 000-acre land area to Chinese developers for a zone in GwadarPort in Baluchistan Province, near the entrance to the Gulf of Oman.
Compounding this problem is China's construction at the Port of Gwadar in Pakistan, which essentially gives Beijing a naval presence on both sides of the Indian subcontinent.