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If you honestly believe that the PRC have been moved aside, then why do they continue to ship arms to Pakistan, and why does the joint development of a Pakistani Navy / PLAN port at the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz continue, well after the reputed "alliance" of Pakistan with the War on Terror? I could equally argue that the feigned "alliance" with the US by Musharraf is nothing more than a Machiavellian move to dupe the US into believing that we are creating a rift between Islamabad and Beijing. Of course, naturally, any such move would likely be followed up by a nasty "surprise" (at least it would come as a surprise to the current main stream of diplomatic thinking, esconced as it is in the "post historical" pseudo-logic typical of the writings of Francis Fukuyama and Thomas L. Friedman.)

Nobody knows or talks about Gwadar; . Just recently, the Chinese announced increased construction there. There was a pic in a pakistani newspaper. Cosco runs a lot of shipping companies in the US; significant number of sealane chokepoints have significant Chinese control-Panama for instance.