OrionHunter
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Basically that in effect, the Pak-China trade relationship is a one dimensional affair where China exports $10 billion worth of products every year to Pakistan but has next to nothing that can be exported to China. 40 percent of Pakistan's entire trade deficit is the consequence of the bilateral trade with China.What's the point that the author wants to convey?
Are there any other stats available to trash what has been said in the article? He's just stating the facts.
For example, China isn't putting in all that effort into opening an economic corridor from Gwadar to Xingiang spending billions of dollars just as a hand-out to Pakistan. It has it's own vested economic and military interests which is of greater priority to it than 'helping' Pakistan in building infrastructure in Balochistan (which it is doing for its own ends). In other words, China isn't all that altruistic that it is made out to be by the Pakistanis.
Thirdly, what are the issues brought out in the article that can be challenged? Instead of trashing all that he has written can the posters out here who are crying foul, do some homework and come out with their counter arguments instead of bashing the author? I don't think he has invented these facts. They can be got from the internet at the click of a button.
No one is saying that the Sino Pak relationship has gone sour, only the skewed economic relationship between them.