Achieve balance in relations with countries

China and Pakistan have developed strong bilateral trade and economic ties and cooperation over the years. Relations between the two countries have often been described as deeper than the deepest sea, sweeter than honey, and higher than the highest mountains in the Himalayas. Over the years, the two countries have become the most trusted and credible friends in the region. Both countries demand each other to remain as recognized powers in the region where neighboring countries, India and Russia in particular, are doing their best to establish their hegemony, making China-Pak quite dependent on each other. China has gradually become Pakistan’s main trading partner in terms of both exports and imports.

Prime Minister Nawaz Shareef inaugurated a historic China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) worth $ 46 billion, considered the largest investment ever made by China in any foreign country. This corridor is of great importance, since it will cross one of the most important geostrategic places in South Asia. It will primarily act as a trade bridge between China, the Middle East and Europe via Pakistan, but it will generate thousands of opportunities and revenue worth billions of dollars for both countries. This project, which will start later this year, will strengthen ties between the two countries that go back decades. The project includes $ 15 billion for much-needed energy production from coal, gas, wind and solar power. It also includes the construction of a 3,000 km road network connecting Kashghar with China, going south to the Arabian Sea.

It is no secret that China is expanding its influence in South Asia. One of Pakistan’s main concerns here is that it is China’s sheer love for Pakistan that is bringing such a large investment, as China has also started different projects in Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and other countries around the world, or in It is actually part of China’s broader agenda to influence South, Central and Southeast Asia in particular and the world in general, both economically and geopolitically. This corridor is one of many mega-projects planned by China in Asia to expand its influence and counter the relatively better-established US sphere of influence in the region. The United States has a similar agenda in the form of “Pivot to Asia,” which aims to counter China’s economic and military expansion in the Asia-Pacific.

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