Posted on 08/20/2018 9:32:07 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
China is building a city for 5,000,000 Chinese nationals at a cost of $150 million in Gwadar as part of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). This will be the first such Chinese city in South Asia.
Half-a-million Chinese citizens, who will be housed in this proposed city by 2022, will be workforce for the financial district that Beijing is planning to set up in the Pakistani port city of Gwadar. Only Chinese citizens will live in this gated zone, which basically means that Pakistan will be used as a colony of China.
ET has learnt that the China-Pak Investment Corporation bought the 3.6-million square foot International Port City and will build a $150-million gated community for the anticipated 5,00,000 Chinese professionals who will be located by 2022 and work in its proposed new financial district in Gwadar.
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Of the 39 proposed CPEC projects, 19 are either already completed or underway, with China spending over $18.5 billion since 2015.
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They’re non believers aren’t they?
Do the math. $30 per employee for housing.
Would YOU want to live in Pakistan? Can’t say I blame the Chinese.
We have similar cities in Saudi Arabia, Quatar and etc. don’t we?
Lot of background: https://www.csis.org/analysis/pakistans-gwadar-port-new-naval-base-chinas-string-pearls-indo-pacific
Wonder how many of thosae 500,000 will be PLA Navy servicemen...
The Chicoms have quite a contingent in Africa. Would u want to wake up there?
Pakistan sets off my Gwadar.
It will be a key port for China, facing the Gulf of Oman and the strait to the Persian Gulf. Good strategic move for China. Not good for us.
I expect the gated aspect relates to security more than anything else. A number of Chinese nationals have been killed in Pakistan by religious zealots. The Pakistanis can’t even find the killers for various domestic targets, where their enemies are fairly obvious. Pakistanis who kill random Chinese might as well be serial killers re the difficulty of narrowing down the culprits.
This colonization by the PRC will continue until the natives get restless.
What comes around... goes around.
Ant farm people
They are welcome to their city in Pakistan
Have fun
Nasty people....as a rule
Indians are far preferable
Two things.
All males over the age of 18 will be secret members of the PLA.
They never plan to leave and cannot be forced out without going to war with Red China.
Pakistan thought that the Red Chinese would be their allies against Indian but it turns out this is a double-edged sword right in their throat.
I disagree with your first point (by degree, Party loyal apparatchiks will dominate, with enough soldiers for robust security), but your second is spot on.
China will use “soft power” to dominate Pakistan’s economy for the good of the Chinese Communist Party (not China). The PLA (the Party’s army, not China’s) will ensure the local riff raff stay out of Chinese areas.
The irony is that one of the key sore points for China in the last century, was dominance by foreigners (Manchurians, and Europeans) and the presence in China of both colonies (Hong Kong, Macau), and international settlements which excluded Chinese (Shanghai, Peking/Beijing).
Sun Yat-sen must be spinning in his grave, and the Pakistanis will soon discover that the British weren’t so bad after all.
5th President of Zambia Michael Sata:“WE WANT the Chinese to leave and the old colonial rulers to return,” said the populist Michael Sata. “They exploited our natural resources too, but at least they took good care of us. They built schools, taught us their language and brought us the British civilisation…at least Western capitalism has a human face; the Chinese are only out to exploit us.”
You can also add that, with a 5 million Chinese workforce within the confines of this city, almost all the economic activity (and benefits thereof) is likely to be confined among that group of Cinese and within the city. The rest of Pakistan will be a hinterland to draw resources from (at rock bottom prices). If they can afford them, the Pakistanis will be allowed to purchase finished goods either being manufactured within the zone by the Chinese or flowing into it from outside (mostly Chinese) sources.
Realistically, a zone of separation is probably the only way both sides could be in continuous close contact without the possibility of contaminating each other culturally. The Chinese already have a “Muslim problem” in China (ethnic Uyghurs) and are probably determined to prevent significant conversions of Han Chinese to that religion. The Pakistani officials probably like the significant flow of Chinese payments of various user fees into state coffers (and bribes into their pockets) but want to minimize any possibility of hostile interactions between them and Pakistani nationalists or Islamic radicals.
The wild card is India. This new Chinese city is likely to have a significant “security” component. A force of say...100,000 personnel would only represent 2% of the total population. Yet within it might be a very significant naval base force structure that would now be positioned in a closed port on India’s western sea frontier. That’s something the Indians are likely to object to.
Atheist Chinese are not under any protection as "People of the Book", and are to be killed as unbelievers. Or at least that's what a bunch of imams will say.
The Chinese will stay in their enclaves. They may buy food and other stuff from surrounding Pakistan, but will mostly stay in their area.
So, 500K, not 5M. Still a very big base.
Especially if I’m rounding up Muslim Huigurs and putting them in internment camps back home.
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