Pakistan invites Saudi Arabia to be third partner in CPEC - The Hindu: "Saudi Arabia will be the third “strategic partner” of the $50 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a senior Pakistani Minister announced on Thursday, soon after Prime Minister Imran Khan returned from his first foreign trip to the cash-rich kingdom. The CPEC is the flagship project of the multi-billion dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a pet project of Chinese President Xi Jinping, aimed at enhancing Beijing’s influence around the world through China-funded infrastructure projects."
Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
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Friday, 21 September 2018
Sunday, 2 September 2018
Security Wise (Bharat Karnad): Why Not Show Pakistan The Same Consideration Shown To China?
"The chief beneficiaries of a squabbling India and Pakistan are China and the United States. They are able to play off the South Asian states against each other, egging on one and then the other, to serve their distinct national interests. For instance, the U.S. has been vocal about its anti-terrorism stance but Washington has time and again made plain—and this has not been paid attention to by Delhi—that their concern is mainly with Pakistan assisting the Afghan Taliban factions fighting the NATO forces in that country, and not with Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Masood Azhar, or Hafiz Saeed. Consider China: The so-called China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is increasingly recognised by Pakistanis as a debt trap that would permit the Chinese to put down roots and redo the ‘East India Company’ scene from some 300 years ago."
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