Posted on 04/20/2015 10:18:16 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
China's President Xi Jinping has signed agreements with Pakistan promising investment of $46bn (£30.7bn).
The focus of spending is on building a China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) - a network of roads, railway and pipelines between the long-time allies.
They will run some 3,000km (1,800 miles) from Gwadar in Pakistan to China's western Xinjiang region.
The projects will give China direct access to the Indian Ocean and beyond.
This marks a major advance in China's plans to boost its influence in Central and South Asia, correspondents say, and far exceeds US spending in Pakistan.
"Pakistan, for China, is now of pivotal importance. This has to succeed and be seen to succeed," Reuters quoted Mushahid Hussain Sayed, chairman of the Pakistani parliament's defence committee, as saying.
Pakistan, for its part, hopes the investment will strengthen its struggling economy and help end chronic power shortages.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said ties with China had "remained robust" despite political changes and "major regional developments" over four generations.
"Our relations are based on the shared ideals and principles of mutual trust, mutual benefit and mutual respect," he said.
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The money would be much better spent putting up a giant electrified fence around Pakistan to keep their particular brand of pestilence inside their own borders.
Just makes it easier for both nations to quickly send their armies into Kashmir when the time comes.
Will jerry brown leave Calif to go run the project? I guess having an interstate from china to pok hee stahn will enable easier shipment of weapons from china to the packees. Economics.
China has sensible policies for dealing with terrorists.
So they are no problem.
The re-opening of the Silk Road says it all about the revival of the China Empire. Quite an achievement for Obama!
Why would anyone want to have a bridge to Pakistan anyway?
Is there rumor of a sweater sale?
We’re indirectly financing this I would argue. Thirty billions is about a week’s worth of interest on our Treasury debt probably.
Sales and rumors of sales.....
China ferociously fights/represses those muslim Uighurs, who will surely team up with the Taliban and sabotage that highway. ISIS will appear on the scene. This could get very bloody.
The Chinese will not coddle terrorists.
The Gwadar deep water port was built, and is still being developed, by the Chinese Communists.
A Chinese Communist State-run corporation runs the port.
The Chinese Communist have no problem with Islamonazi regimes and allies with most of them.
These are decades long associations.
There has never been any attempt on the part of Islamists to support Uighurs against the Chinese regime.
The Chinese were partnered with the Taliban and had interactions with al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
They have always coddled terrorists as part of their asymmetric warfare philosophy against the west and western leaning nations.
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