QaAMFWJ5_bsjijUIxxEx0lBdgAgl7njFjrO3NmUlxH1ms36H9SZJ1OpAK8mKDvErSUU=h310' alt='Pakistan Rail Game' title='Pakistan Rail Game' />Pakistan Cant Afford Chinas Friendship Foreign Policy. In recent months, the Chinese Pakistan Economic Corridor CPEC has left Pakistanis emboldened, Indians angry, and U. S. analysts worried. Ostensibly, CPEC will connect Pakistan to Chinas western Xinjiang province through the development of vast new transportation and energy infrastructure. The project is part of Chinas much hyped Belt and Road Initiative, a grand, increasingly vague geopolitical plan bridging Eurasia that Chinas powerful President Xi Jinping has promoted heavily. Pakistani and Chinese officials boast that CPEC will help address Pakistans electricity generation problem, bolster its road and rail networks, and shore up the economy through the construction of special economic zones. But these benefits are highly unlikely to materialize. Zv9t2fIIuZk/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Pakistan Rail Game' title='Pakistan Rail Game' />The project is more inclined to leave Pakistan burdened with unserviceable debt while further exposing the fissures in its internal security. Pakistan and China often speak of their all weather friendship, but the truth is that the relationship has always been a cynical one. Nic Noc Enfermagem. China cultivated Pakistan as a client through the provision of military assistance diplomatic and political cover in the U. N. Security Council and generous loan aid in an effort to counter both American influence and the system of anti Communist Western treaty alliances. China also sought to embolden Pakistan to harangue India, but not to the point of war because that would expose the hard limits of Chinese support. Despite Pakistans boasts of iron clad Chinese support, when Pakistan went to war with India in 1. China did little or nothing to bail out its client in distress. During the 1. 97. India intervened in Pakistans civil war in its Bengali dominated eastern wing, President Richard Nixon requested China move troops along its eastern border with India to intimidate India and stave off Pakistans defeat. However, China declined to undertake even this modest effort to preclude India from vivisecting Pakistan. East Pakistan became independent Bangladesh in 1. In a nod to Pakistan, China refused to recognize Bangladesh until August 1. Pakistan did so in February 1. Theres little reason to think China has made a sudden conversion to altruism when it comes to CPEC. The project originated in 2. Chinese premier, Li Keqiang, and Pakistans then president, Asif Ali Zardari, agreed to build an economic corridor between the two countries. The project inched closer to fruition in 2. Pakistans President Mamnoon Hussain and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif traveled to China on different occasions to further discussions. In November 2. 01. LmHtwwjuv4GiKSt1KeRqqDDmdtiL_WqoNFmAyDkqVxXT10dOlCmYtdSMl5Y88=h900' alt='Pakistan Rail Game' title='Pakistan Rail Game' />CPEC ChinaPakistan Economic Corridor CPEC Official Website Develop By Ministry of Planning, Development Reform CPEC Secretariat P block PakSecretariat. Pakistan Cant Afford Chinas Friendship. Argument Pakistan Cant Afford Chinas Friendship Pakistans elites think Chinese cash can save the country. Abu Dhabi invested Dh40b to Etihad Rail project that will link major industrial zones. Pakistans military says it has launched a major operation against socalled Islamic State IS in the northwestern region along the Afghan border. A. The economy of Pakistan is the 24th largest in the world in terms of purchasing power parity PPP, and 42nd largest in terms of nominal gross domestic product. Pakistans Narrative Is India responsible for all that is wrong with Pakistan today Obviously not however, its spies are promoting and exploiting the ethnic. Chinese government announced that it would finance 4. Pakistan as part of CPEC. In September 2. 01. China announced a new loan deal for CPEC valued at 5. In November 2. 01. Some 20 people from Multan, Pakistan, have been arrested for ordering the rape of a teenage girl, in revenge for a rape her brother allegedly committed. Body charged with attracting investment into Pakistan. Provides information on investment opportunities, government policies, and facilities available. ISLAMABAD The IndiaPakistan dispute over Kashmir is a matter of concern, according to a United Nations UN report, claiming that the ChinaPakistan Economic. CPEC became operational when products were moved by truck from China and loaded onto ships at Pakistans port Gwador along the Makran coast for markets in West Asia and Africa. After this major development, China declared that it would increase its investment again to 6. April. Pakistans civilian and military leadership alike have told the public that CPEC will solve Pakistans chronic electricity shortages, improve an aging road and rail infrastructure, provide a fillip to Pakistans economy, knit an increasingly pariah state to a new Chinese led geopolitical order, and diminish the role of the much reviled United States in the region. CPEC has the bonus of irritating the Indians because it strengthens Pakistans hold on territory in Jammu and Kashmir that it snatched in the 1. Pakistan subsequently ceded to China in 1. WYGgpJSpPaU/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Pakistan Rail Game' title='Pakistan Rail Game' />Sino Pakistan boundary agreement. India claims these lands, currently held by Pakistan and China, and deems their occupation illegal. Despite the bold claims made by China and Pakistan, there are many reasons to be dubious about the purported promises of CPEC. Theres already violence all along the corridor. The north most part of CPEC is the Karakoram Highway KKH, which gashes through the Karakoram Mountain Range to connect Kashgar in Xinjiang with Pakistans troubled province of Gilgit Baltistan. Xinjiang is in the throes of a slow burning insurgency by the Muslim Uighur minority against the Communist state. Gilgit Baltistan, a Shiite majority polity under the thumb of a Sunni dominated Pakistan, is part of the above noted contested territory of Jammu Kashmir. Here, geology and weather further limit CPEC. The Karakoram Highway, a narrow road weaving through perilous mountains, cant bear heavy traffic. Expanding the KKH will not be easy. Residents of Gilgit Baltistan worry about the environmental costs in relation to the few benefits they will enjoy. There have been episodic protests, which the Pakistani government has ruthlessly put down. Meanwhile, Gwador is experiencing a prolonged drought, frustrating the project while the four extant desalination plants remain idle. In the south, CPEC is anchored to the port at Gwador in Pakistans insurgency riven Balochistan province. The local Baloch people deeply resent the plan because it will fundamentally change the demography of the area. Before the expansion of Gwadar, the population of the area was 7. If the project comes to full fruition the population would be closer to 2 million most of whom would be non Baloch. Many poor Baloch have already been displaced from the area. Since construction has begun, there have been numerous attacks against Chinese personnel, among other workers. Theres also the stubborn problem of economic competitiveness. For CPEC to be more competitive than the North South Corridor that is rooted to the Iranian port of Chabahar, Gwador needs to offer a safer and shorter route from the Arabian Sea to Central Asia. For that to happen, Gwador needs to be connected by road to the Afghan Ring Road in Afghanistans Kandahar province, which is under sustained attacks by the Afghan Taliban. Alternatively, a new route could connect Gwador with the border crossing at Torkham near Peshawar by traveling up Balochistan, with its own active ethnic insurgency, through or adjacent to Pakistans Federally Administered Tribal Areas, which is the epicenter of Islamist terrorism and insurgency throughout Pakistan. It takes great faith or idiocy, or greed, or all of the above to believe that this is possible. All of these issues raise salient questions about the real utility of this unfolding fiasco. If CPEC is not an economically viable route for actual commerce, what purpose does it serveAnalyst Andrew Small, among others, has argued that CPEC is, in reality, a redundant supply route for China should it face an embargo during a military conflict. Its also possible that if the port at Gwador is not economically sustainable the real goal is the creation of a Chinese naval outpost. Many in India, Pakistans historic rival, have also come to this conclusion. They may well be correct, according to recent Chinese reports indicating that China may expand its marine corps and may station new marine brigades in Gwadar. While the benefits to transit may be illusory, it is possible that Pakistan could benefit from purportedly low hanging fruit, including the much lauded economic zones and power plants. Pakistan does struggle with power shortages. Rail Raiders Infinite by Soda Pop Miniatures. Kickstarter. Risks and challenges. This is Soda Pop Miniatures Ninja Divisions fourth Kickstarter. Alexandra Burke Renegade'>Alexandra Burke Renegade. We are very experienced with the production and manufacturing of miniature board games. However, there is always the possibility of delays in any project, including Development Delays. Manufacturing Delays. Customs Delays. Shipping Delays. 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