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Following Sri Lanka, Pakistan is rapidly accumulating billions of dollars of Chinese debt under the Belt and Road Initiative. This paper argues that that initiative’s disregard for the economic viability of projects and the domestic limitations of countries like Sri Lanka and Pakistan have both external and internal ramifications for the recipient countries.
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166797
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The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is among the more advanced Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects, with $18.9 billion in CPEC projects initiated or completed as of December 2018.1
1. ‘Latest Progress on the CPEC’. Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, December 29, 2018, https://pk.chineseembassy.org/eng/zbgx/t1626097.htm (accessed 30 December 2018).
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Given the close strategic ties between Beijing and Islamabad, and the popularity of China among Pakistanis, CPEC serves as a valuable BRI case study, providing insights into how the programme has operated in a country with limited initial political barriers to Chinese aid and investment. China and Pakistan have had robust diplomatic and defence relations since the late 1960s. Economic ties have, however, remained weak. CPEC marked the start of a venture into unchartered waters with respect to the bilateral relationship.
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155643
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177297
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China-Pakistan has been old friends but China-India has been old rivals due to their many unresolved issues in general but the border issue in particular. China-Pakistan has no border issues. Accordingly, China-Pakistan agrees on the project of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) which is a framework for regional connectivity and economic cooperation. India did not join the CPEC on the ground that it passes through territory which is dispute between India-Pakistan viz Gilgit-Baltistan and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK).
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166800
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In all of history, except for the Marshall Plan, there was practically no long-term project which needs enormous courage. Let me express my gratitude for the People’s Republic of China for this courage, and especially let me appreciate China’s president for the courage which is so rare.
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170548
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This article begins with a discussion on how the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is viewed differently by different political parties as well as by the civilian and military establishments in Pakistan. The discussion then turns to Pakistan’s current economic conditions and examines whether CPEC has the potential to boost the Pakistan economy or contribute to the worsening of its economic conditions. This article also discusses how CPEC seeks to maintain a balance between geo-economic and geopolitics. The article throws light on how CPEC has affected the internal political dynamics within Pakistan, and why the work on CPEC has slowed down.
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163496
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CPEC is China’s largest foreign investment project till date. This multibillion-dollar project has created a lot of conversation around its financial viability. However, CPEC is important to China for a variety of reasons that go beyond economics.
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164739
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This article will read the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), whose infrastructure and installations are currently being built across Pakistan, as a moving border-making event which inscribes difference within Pakistan. The article will begin with a discussion of borders and border-making. The discussion will then turn to the different registers of difference that will be created in Pakistan through CPEC. The article will conclude with a speculative look at how Pakistan and the wider region may be impacted once the construction of CPEC is complete.
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ID:
160398
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The ouster of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif marked the culmination of a tumultuous political year in 2017 for Pakistan. On the external front, tensions with India, Afghanistan, and the United States soared before abating, albeit modestly, later in the year.
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154024
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Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) consists of the so called ‘Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK)’ and ‘Gilgit-Baltistan’ (referred to as the ‘Northern Areas’ till August 2009). PoK is part of the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), and hence an integral part of India.
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141663
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When Chinese President Xi Jinping went to Pakistan on an official visit in April 2015, he brought with him a $46 billion gift that potentially could have very significant benefits for that country, as well as have a major impact on the region. And although there remain a number of unknowns on how this massive Chinese investment package will be implemented over the next 15 years or so, it is certain that it will pull Pakistan even deeper into Beijing’s geostrategic orbit. Even though China and Pakistan have had a long and fruitful relationship for well over 50 years, if all the projects associated with this deal are ultimately implemented, it will be a game-changer for the region—equal to all the foreign direct investment inflows into Pakistan since 1970 combined and dwarfing the $7.5 billion US aid package passed by Congress in 2009.
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This study provides a critical literature review of the benefits and problems associated with one of the largest Chinese-funded development projects, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), with particular focus on the implications of this project for local people in Pakistan. CPEC is one of the most significant development projects in Pakistan, covering infrastructure, agriculture, and energy cooperation. Although some studies have examined challenges and problems brought about by CPEC, the majority of them fail to examine specific localities and the Pakistani communities that have been impacted by the project. Hence, most of the investigations have reported general development impacts rather than indicating whether and how CPEC has brought either benefits or problems to local people. In examining previously published studies on CPEC, this essay highlights gaps in research, especially from anthropological and sociological perspectives, with the goal of encouraging further studies from the vantage point of the local communities regarding development projects in Pakistan.
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143983
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Sovereignty’ and ‘history’ have a universal context in international politics. But in Beijing’s strategic foreign policy setting, the logic of ‘sovereignty’ and ‘history’ are employed or applied selectively. This is clear in the context of its reservation on India’s oil exploration in the South China Sea (SCS) and its own plans to implement the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) through Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK) which India opposes. The strategic implications of these matters are huge for India. India needs to read carefully the complexity behind both matters and need to discuss the matter prudently with China.
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