It helps explain China's push into India's backyard, with roads, ports and pipelines, chiefly via Myanmar and Pakistan.

这有助于解释中国把公路、港口和输油管道修到印度后院的原因。这些设施主要是在缅甸和巴基斯坦境内。

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Equally, what is China doing building roads, ports and pipelines in Myanmar and Pakistan, connecting west and south-west China with the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean?

同样，中国在缅甸和巴基斯坦建设公路、港口、管道，将中国西部和西南部与孟加拉湾和印度洋接通，这又是为了什么？

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Many Indians, for their part, see China's building of roads, ports and pipelines in friendly countries around the Indian Ocean as a "string of pearls" strategy designed to choke India.

然而从许多印度人的角度出发，他们把中国在印度洋周围的友好国家修建公路、港口和管道视作旨在遏制印度的“珍珠链”战略。

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That means they are further from the infrastructure of platforms, ports and pipelines, and more costly.

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Equally, what is China doing building roads, ports and pipelines in Myanmar and Pakistan, connecting west and south-west China with the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean?

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