Yunnan, March 5 -- BNP Senior Leader Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan on Wednesday voiced concerns regarding the proposed route of the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM) economic corridor under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) project, citing strategic implications and urged China to address the issue.

"As per the plan, one of the six economic corridors of the BRI will go from China to Myanmar, then into India. From India, it will enter Bangladesh and then return to India. This route, in fact, turns out in a way like a corridor for India," he told a seminar organised by the Yunnan Minzu University.

The seminar, titled "Yunnan's Participation in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Prospects for Cooperation with South Asian Countries," was he...