Outbound passengers await departure to Pakistan from Khunjerab Pass, a port in Kashgar in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on Nov 6. Launched in 2013, CPEC is a corridor linking Pakistan's Gwadar port with Kashgar in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, highlighting energy, transport and industrial cooperation. By the end of 2022, CPEC had brought a direct investment …
THERE WAS little hint in the speech that Xi Jinping gave on September 7th 2013 in Kazakhstan that he was thinking of a concrete-pouring binge across the world, spurred by hundreds of billions of dollars in Chinese loans and investment. “It wants to use the BRI to create alternative markets for its goods and alternative links in its supply chains,” …
The story so far: At the recently concluded summit of G7 leaders in Germany, United States President Joe Biden and his allies unveiled their $600-billion plan called the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment to build infrastructure projects in developing and middle-income countries. The progress of BRI in South Asia Pakistan On his 2015 visit to Pakistan, Mr. Jinping and …
Amid recent terror attacks on Chinese nationals and Belt and Road Initiative’s China-Pakistan Economic Corridor projects in Karachi, Balochistan and Gilgit-Baltistan, China has demanded military outposts for the security of its citizens working in the country, sources told CNN-News18. CPEC PROJECTS UNDERWAY The major CPEC projects underway are Bostan Industrial Zone near Quetta, Balochistan; Chaman district of Balochistan bordering with …
This new realignment in Asia provides new opportunities not only for China and Iran, but also for Pakistan. It seems the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” policy against Iran has pushed the country into the arms of China and caused a significant strategic disadvantage to its long-term ally India. The news of New Delhi’s interest in participating in the Israeli-led “Trans-Arabian …