India's snub over 'Belt and Road' forum highlights gulf with China

New Delhi

CHINA invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and six Cabinet colleagues to its "new Silk Road" summit this month, even offering to rename a flagship Pakistani project running through disputed territory to persuade them to attend, a top official in Mr Modi's ruling group and diplomats said.

But New Delhi rebuffed Beijing's diplomatic push, incensed that a key project in its massive initiative to open land and sea corridors linking China with the rest of Asia and beyond runs through Pakistani-controlled Kashmir.

The failure of China's efforts to bring India on board, details of whi…