Adnan Aamir, Journalist
Sep 25, 2020
India and China have a long history of border disputes, which have heated up recently. Stacked interests between China, India, and Pakistan hold the region on a seesaw, and BRI and CPEC may benefit from the conflict and pandemic.
Zainab Zaheer, Development Consultant
Jan 10, 2019
Many Pakistanis are concerned about how much of the country’s current widening account deficit is a consequence of China’s landmark Belt & Road Initiative.
Adnan Aamir, Journalist
Dec 18, 2018
The Baloch insurgency in Pakistan is now targeting Chinese-investments. The Pakistani government alleges that India wants to sabotage its relationship with China by supporting the insurgents.
Zainab Zaheer, Development Consultant
Aug 28, 2018
Newly-appointed Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has two realistic options: to further inflate the country’s Chinese debt, or to look to the International Monetary Fund for a bailout for the 15th time since the 1980s. Both options have serious drawbacks.
Alessandro Rippa, Postdoc research assistant, the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Aug 27, 2018
Pakistan now has a new government. But will this change Pakistan’s relationship with one of its closest allies - China?
Gurmeet Kanwal, Former director of CLAWS
Aug 22, 2018
As Pakistan’s new prime minister takes the reins of power, he will be forced to adapt to his country’s shifting relationships with two world powers: China and the United States.
Adnan Aamir, Journalist
Aug 17, 2018
On July 13, the Balochistan province of Pakistan witnessed its worst ever terrorist attack, when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a local election rally in Mastung district. Radical trends among youth in this region not only threaten the stability of Pakistan but also the future of Pakistan’s proclaimed economic savior – the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.
Adnan Aamir, Journalist
Jul 03, 2018
Rather than helping Pakistan’s economy, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is creating a debt trap for Pakistan which will result in Pakistan’s continued economic dependence on China.
Sajjad Ashraf, Former Adjunct Professor, National University of Singapore
Mar 02, 2018
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a $62 billion China-funded ‘flagship project’ within China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is fast heading towards the closure of deals on ‘early harvest’ projects. With five energy projects commissioned and several more on course, these should help lift Pakistan’s economic output.
Sampson Oppedisano, Executive Assistant to the Dean, The Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy
Feb 02, 2018
More often than not, the start of the new year is marked with a sense of hope and renewal, a chance to learn from the previous year’s trials and transgressions, a chance of getting things right the next time around. However, if the world has learned anything during the last year that the Trump Administration has been in power, it is that hope, renewal, and learning from past mistakes seem to be far from the top of the administration’s New Year’s resolution list.