Can China’s Scholarships and Cultural Diplomacy Efforts Succeed in Pakistan?
In Washington, D.C., China has a bad reputation for the way it treats its Muslim minorities. But views differ greatly in many majority-Muslim countries in Asia. Educational programs and exchanges are a key part of this. Pakistan is an exemplar:...
“There Is No CPEC in Gwadar, Except Security Check Posts”
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is one of the major spokes of Beijing’s multi-trillion dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), an ambitious attempt to remake global trade and transport infrastructure. CPEC’s terminus is Gwadar, a port...
First Group from Pakistan Registers Representative Office
On December 4, an NGO from Pakistan registered a representative office in China, making it the first Pakistan-based organization to either register an office or file for a temporary activity since the Foreign NGO Law went into effect in 2017.
Pakistan Puts a Spotlight on China’s Opaque Loans
Imran Khan, Pakistan’s former cricket captain and newly elected prime minister, is on a sticky wicket. His victory in last week’s polls was secured in part on a pledge to ramp up spending on public services. Yet the coffers are empty and a...
Resetting China-India Relations
from Carnegie ChinaFollowing a year marked by mounting tensions between China and India, President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi met in Wuhan for an informal summit in April to reset the relationship. Major points of tension dominating China-India...
Warning Sounded over China's 'Debtbook Diplomacy'
Academics identify 16 countries loaned billions that they can’t afford to repay.
Pakistan Shuns US for Chinese High-Tech Weapons
In the last few months of the Obama administration, the US state department made an announcement which caused a new breach in Washington’s tumultuous relationship with Pakistan.
China’s Vast Intercontinental Building Plan Is Gaining Momentum
China’s massive build program to recreate trade routes stretching from Asia to Africa and Europe is gaining momentum.
Chinese Crackdown Separates Pakistani Husbands from Uighur Wives
“Where is Mama?” screams Ahmed’s 10-year-old daughter in a WeChat message he can hardly bear to replay.
THANK YOU TRUMP: THAT TWEET WAS JUST WHAT CHINA NEEDED TO TAME PAKISTAN
In South Asia, there is one clear winner from Donald Trump’s tweet tantrums this week: China, which suddenly finds its leverage over Pakistan multiplying as a result of the US president’s mood swings.
China and Pakistan Team up for Swipe at Trump's Afghanistan Plans
The air forces of China and Pakistan teamed up for joint training exercises, state media reported on Friday as the foreign ministers from the two countries present a united front in Beijing against Washington’s new military policy in Afghanistan...
China Is Investing $57 Billion into Pakistan
Chinese entrepreneurs are looking to explore opportunities in Pakistan, where Beijing has pledged to spend $57 billion on infrastructure projects as part of its “Belt and Road” initiative.
Balance of Power: China Extends Its Reach
President Xi Jinping is spending more than $50 billion in an economic corridor in Pakistan, Afghanistan’s neighbor. The highways and gas pipelines, designed to provide China an alternative land route to the high seas, also give it an interest in...
CPEC: The Growing Resentment and Resistance among Poor Pakistanis Can Cost China Dearly
In Pakistan, there’s no topic hotter than the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a multi-billion dollar bilateral development project that will officials promised in 2015, “usher in an era of unprecedented progress and prosperity.”
Pakistan Pivots to China Amid Fresh Concerns over US Ties with India
The words from Pakistan’s top foreign policy adviser could not have been clearer. At a news conference welcoming China’s foreign minister to the Pakistani capital this week, Sartaj Aziz declared, “Pakistan’s relations with China are the...
Unless China Changes Tack, India Won’t Be the Only Country Opposing One Belt, One Road
India said about OBOR that “no country can accept a project that ignores its core concerns on sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
China Is Trying to Pull Middle East Countries into Its Version of NATO
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) held annual summit last week in Kazakhstan, and the most significant outcome was the announcement that India and Pakistan became its first new members since being formed in 2001.
China May Soon Establish Naval Base in U.S. Ally Pakistan
Nuclear-armed Pakistan is a key ally of the United States — but the relationship is far from untroubled. And one of Washington's main geopolitical rivals appears ready to step in.
Pakistan Confirms Chinese Couple Killed after IS Claim
Pakistan confirmed Monday that a Chinese couple abducted at gunpoint has been killed, three days after Islamic State militants claimed the killing and sent a video to local journalists purporting to show their bodies.
China Likely to Set up Military Base in Pakistan – Pentagon
The report from the Pentagon predicts China will expand its military prowess after the construction of its first overseas naval base in Djibouti, a strategic location at the southern entrance to the Red Sea on the route to the Suez Canal.
China Is Getting Serious about Fighting Climate Change at Home. Abroad, Its Investments Tell a Different Story
China, the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter, has in recent years emerged as a global leader in climate action. The country’s use of coal — considered the single biggest contributor to anthropogenic climate change — has dropped every year...
No Room yet for India in NSG, Says China
Pakistan, China’s close ally, is the other declared nuclear weapon state, which has not signed the NPT. China on Monday said it would oppose India’s unilateral entry into the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), pending a consensus on the membership of...
Why Soft Power Could Be the Real Value of China’s Massive Belt and Road Project
The real benefits of OBOR to China could be the international clout it stands to gain as its attempts to spearhead international policy and improve relations with OBOR partner countries.
India Boycotts China’s Global Trade Jamboree
India’s main objection is the partnership China is developing with Pakistan. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, a key component of One Belt, One Road -- passes through the disputed region of Kashmir, which both India and Pakistan claim in its...
China Repeats West’s Mistakes in Pakistan
When President Xi Jinping announced in 2015 that China would pump $46 billion worth of investments into Pakistan, the recipients of his largesse seemed less surprised than one might have expected.
Welcome to an Emerging Asia: India and China Stop Feigning Friendship while Russia Plays All Sides
After a few timid signs of warming, Sino-Indian relations seem to be headed for the freezer.
Will Chinese Money Transform Pakistan?
from chinadialogueThe development of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has spurred debate in all quarters. Some perceive it as a form of neo-colonialism and criticize Pakistan’s government for promoting unethical business practices at the...
Pakistan Tensions Loom Over India-China Strategic Economic Dialogue
Pakistan may not be officially included in this year's round of talks between India and China, but it's certainly high up on the agenda.
'China Has Only One Real Ally'
Director of the Institute for International Relations at Tsinghua University believes China's only real ally is Pakistan.
A New Shenzhen? Poor Pakistan Fishing Town's Horror at Chinese Plans
The mega-port will bring five-star hotels and Chinese access to the Arabian Sea.
A New Era for China and Pakistan?
This week, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Islamabad and showered Pakistan with attention and promises of $46 billion in development support. What does this intensified Sino-Pakistani engagement mean for Asia and the rest of the world? —...
China’s Big Plunge in Pakistan
If China can advance a stable Pakistan through development programs, the whole region would benefit.
China Is Planning to Rebuild the Silk Road and Transform Global Trade Routes
China plans to build a modern version of the Silk Road through Pakistan and beyond.
Xi Says Increasingly Confident in China-Pakistan Ties
Xi called for focus on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, the Gwadar Port, energy, transport infrastructure, and industrial cooperation.
China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative
Beijing looks West toward Eurasian integration.
What China’s and Pakistan’s Special Friendship Means
Sino-Pakistan friendship, read Islamabad billboards, "is higher than mountains, deeper than oceans, sweeter than honey, and stronger than steel."
China’s Investing $46 B to Carve Route Through one of World’s Most Dangerous Regions
Xi visiing Pakistan to sign energy and infrastructure deals for a corridor stretching to Xinjiang.
Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy
In 1959, the Dalai Lama fled Lhasa, leaving the People's Republic of China with a crisis on its Tibetan frontier. Sulmaan Wasif Khan tells the story of the PRC's response to that crisis and, in doing so, brings to life an extraordinary cast of characters: Chinese diplomats appalled by sky burials, Guomindang spies working with Tibetans in Nepal, traders carrying salt across the Himalayas, and Tibetan Muslims rioting in Lhasa.
China to Reveal Detailed “Belt and Road” Roadmap
Hundreds of major infrastructure projects could spread into Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Pakistan.
Q. and A.: Andrew Small on the China-Pakistan Relationship
The book “The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia’s New Geopolitics” argues that there have always been irritants below the surface.
China Commits $45.6 Billion for Economic Corridor with Pakistan
The Chinese companies will be able to operate the projects as profit-making entities, according to the deal signed by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during a visit to China earlier this month.
Once-Banned Modi Embraced by U.S. as China Interests Mesh
A decade ago, the U.S. saw Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as an international pariah. Next week he’ll address a sell-out crowd at Madison Square Garden and stroll down the red carpet at the White House.
China and the Other Asian Giant: Where are Relations with India Headed?
Mike Kulma:
Earlier this week at an Asia Society forum on U.S.-China economic relations, Dr. Henry Kissinger remarked that when the U.S. first started down the path of normalizing relations with China in the early 1970s, the...
China’s String of Fake Pearls (Blog)
For the past few years, a low level theme that occasionally pops into my news feed is the idea of greater Sino-Pakistani cooperation. Now this has a certain amount of realpolitik sense to it. The United States and Pakistan are not...