Posted on 04/20/2015 9:18:20 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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.
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The path to conquest...
India be aware!
Engineering challenging going through the Kakakorum and Hindu Kush mountains. There is an existing highway although I am not sure as to the quality of the road in Pakistan.
China will have even more problems with Muslims once it’s built!!!
Yeah, great move. It’s not like those Pakistani’s would use that highway to colonize China or anything. [/s]
Confucius, meet Mohammed...
China will find themselves with a challenge, methinks.
The Chinese can have Pakistan. Spending money there is pissing into the wind.
Somehow, I don’t think they will be as PC in their reaction if they are messed with.
[ China will have even more problems with Muslims once it’s built!!! ]
They may have bound their women’s feet hundreds of years ago, but they will not bind their trigger fingers like we didn in the last decade...
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