Close on the heels of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson accusing China of predatory economics, experts here have sought increased collaboration between India, the US, and Japan aimed at providing alternative developmental efforts to countries in the Indo-Pacific region. "The US, India, and Japan can offer alternative options for economic connectivity that can compete and possibly even cooperate with China's Belt and Road Initiative, where appropriate," said Manpreet Singh Anand, who served as deputy assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia in the previous Obama administration.