Pakistan has been refusing to give MFN status to India for the reason that cheap and better quality Indian goods will flood Pakistan's markets destroying local industry. That's exactly what is going to happen when Chinese goods start flooding Pakistan's markets when the CPEC opens for business.
The fact is that the Chinese are making this 'economic corridor' for their own strategic and national interests. Their strategic aim is to establish a PLAAN base at Gwadar to try and dominate the Strait of Hormuz from where a large proportion of the world’s oil flows. Not only the Strait of Hormuz but also to try and dominate the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean. The CPEC is the only viable option for providing logistics support to their future naval base at Gwadar.
Pakistan is just a side show in this project. The sooner this is realized by the Pakistanis, the better. All this talk of them achieving super power status due to the CPEC is a lot of bull and hot air - unfortunately!
the more progress is being made on CPEC, the more and more interesting posts are being written by the Indian members on here and through the Indian media.
This isn't the FIRST trade corridor that the China has built. There are others too. And based on the economic data and research, I've yet to see the local markets getting destroyed with the Chinese products. So What you and other members say about CPEC, we call it "Red Lining". Meaning, scaring people off due to something or someone's actions opposite to the actual reality!!!
Not giving MFN status to India makes perfect sense. Who would want to do that when the other country is DYING to involve you in a "limited warfare" so that they can destroy the country economic progress and push it back by 20 years? And the country looking for the MFN status is too busy spreading terror in the other country, including killing young children who have NO conflict with anyone!!!!
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logic!!!
The CPEC will take Pakistan's goods and services, and Chinese goods to across the globe. Chinese have a language issue. India doesn't and that's why her economy has grown so much. Today, Indian IT, Medical and Engineering labor works in almost every modern country. Well, Pakistan has over 110-120 million male population between 16 and 23, and just like India, there is English in Pakistan too. Specially the younger generation speaks it very well.
20-30 million of these men and women, working in Engineering, Medical and IT professions across the globe, through the Chinese influence initially will change Pakistan's entire landscape in the next 10-15 years, just like how India's been transformed since 1995 with the US's help. So the Chinese are doing the same for Pakistan. No need to panic, but do get ready for a head on, tooth to nail labor competition with the Pakistanis in terms of IT, Medical, Research, Engineering and all
. The SAME Pakistan you want to have a limited war with, you won't be able to look them straight in their eyes, due to their power projection in 2025. I can stamp on this and wait for ten years to see how right I was!
Does CPEC include making of:
Industries
Business Centers
Real Estate Buildings like they way Hong Kong/Singapore is?
I am sure giving a house to everyone there is not possible at all. Rather, it's better to build building of 30+ stories there in.
ALL the above!!!! If you have over 2 million trucks and plus, Pakistan's own, regular traffic going through a highway, common sense will tell you, you'll need gas stations to get oil and diesel for these vehicles, you'll need mechanic shops, restaurants so people can stop and have lunch or dinners, truck stops, hotels, and obviously, people owning or running these businesses will stay close in instead of driving every day from a near city 4 hours away, so that means housing will be needed, hospitals and schools come automatically.
The US's economy's growth was solely dependent upon her highway system Al-Gore's father conceptualize in late 1950's. The land becomes super expensive around a high announced to be built as people know their agriculture land will now host the above, homes, commercial and master planned communities. So you want to make money in real estate, go follow the highway. You'll never lose money!!!In Lahore, around the Ring Road, some of the remote areas were cheaper just a few years ago. Now, the prices have gone WAY up. I was looking at a Real Estate report about Pakistan and India. Similarly, in Bangalore, even a 1000 SQFT apartment has become very expensive inside the city limits. So when there is infrastructure put in and jobs exist, the Real Estate jumps up!!!
