1) Common sense tells that design is quite expensive for mega projects. Also time is money. Just because you spend $2 on new design that takes more years to mature, don't ignore the time lost.
2) I'm speaking in economics terms. It is a loss. Our production isn't being given full resource. So we cannot produce enough output that we could otherwise. In accounting or average joe's person opinion, this isn't a loss. But in economics, this loss is massive and carries not only monetary losses, but creates emotional problems too (joblessness, not enough hours etc)
3) If you learn to read, you'll see that I wrote
"Part of the project."
4) If the original quote, you were saying that it isn't financially viable for Pakistan to pursue the project. I quoted the news article which said it wasn't financially viable for China to pursue the project in all. Notice the difference. China was worried about finances, not Pakistan. Pakistan had agreed to please China for their demands. Then you cut my quote into 2 pieces to show your views.
Here is the article "The committee was told that memorandums of understanding were also signed with China under China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Project for 10 Gadani Power Projects, but later
Beijing scaled down its priority over financial and technical apprehensions. For example, the Chinese had concerns over payment issues against electricity sales after the completion of projects and suggested AC, instead of DC, circuit transmission line."
And here is what you said "It is neither
financially viable for Pakistan, nor technically viable for China, which is why they've reduced the plants to 4."
So again, it was not financially viable for China and hence they backed out. Even though Pakistan was ready to give guarantees and demands.
So it isn't almost exclusively Indians. Also did you manage to read other people posts? Pakistanis were agreeing with me when quoting me. Rating is not the way to go around and see who agrees with the post. I don't give ratings to people and I can still agree with them. As you will read, many Pakistanis agree here that China is looking out for self interest.
@That Guy take a look at picture. solar costs a lot of money and hence it's better Pakistan goes for gas powdered plants. We should try and be environmental as much as possible, but it doesn't mean we start to eat grass in order to get solar power. At the same time, it doesn't mean that we use coal powered plants just because they cost a little less.