China's Railroad to world domination: $58 billion rail link with Pakistan will reduce reliance on West

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Chinese rail review board says system connecting Pakistan to China will change trade and geopolitics​

China has proposed its most expensive Belt and Road Initiative to date with a $58 billion railway system that would connect Pakistan to western China in a move to further reduce Western trade dependence, a report said Thursday.

The $57.7 billion plan was reviewed by analysts from the state-owned China Railway First Survey and Design Institute Group Co Ltd., which has determined that despite its hefty price tag the investment is worth it, reported the South China Morning Post.

The 1,860-mile rail system will connect Pakistan’s port of Gwadar to the Chinese city of Kashgar in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region and has the potential to reshape not only trade but geopolitics, according to the proposal’s review board.

"The government and financial institutions should provide strong support, increase coordination and collaboration among relevant domestic departments, strive for the injection of support funds and provide strong policy support and guarantees for the construction of this project," the Chinese team of analysts said in a report published earlier this month in the Chinese journal, Railway Transport and Economy.

Though the railway connecting China to Pakistan would be China’s biggest transport project yet, this is not the first major international rail system the Institute has been involved in, having helped with Jakarta-Bandung high-speed rail line in Indonesia – Asia’s first high-speed rail system – which is slated to open in June.

Passengers purchase tickets for the China-Laos Railway in Vientiane, Laos, April 11, 2023. (Yang Yongquan/Xinhua via Getty Images)

The latest rail system to get the green light in China will connect the world’s top manufacturer with the Arabian Sea, opening it up to more direct trade routes.

It is also expected to encourage additional train systems that could connect China to Turkey and Iran – significantly opening up direct access to the regions, reported the South China Morning Post.

Foreign ministers from China, Russia, Iran and Pakistan meet in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on April 13, 2023. (Bai Xueqi/Xinhua via Getty Images)

The trade routes are just one component of Beijing’s broader Belt and Road Initiative that looks to solidify China as a world superpower and encourage global domination in the trade sector.

The initiative is also looking to shift focus away from historical trade routes dominated by Western nations to better improve China's economic goals and encourage a "multipolar world" to diminish Western power – a move that top autocratic nations like Russia and Iran have also been eager to encourage as geopolitical tensions with the West continue to escalate.

China's railroad to world domination: $58 billion rail link with Pakistan will reduce reliance on West

China has proposed its most expensive Belt and Road Initiative yet with a $58 billion railway system that would connect Pakistan to western China in a move to further reduce Western trade dependence.

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[Dalit]

Good project. China should be lauded for such projects.

 

[*Warrior*]

Fauji Bhaya ka kaam CPEC mein?
Yeh waha kia ker rahy hain?

 

[Ali_Baba]

This railway makes little sense for Pakistan - given poor trade ties with China and with Pakistan making nothing that China wants or needs. The whole purpose of this rail link is to reduce China's dependency on the Malacca Straights and to offer China a trade and oil corridor that is more risk free by closer links with the middile east and as such China should pay for it itself.

Pakistan should not be tasked with solving China's strategic geopolitical issues at Pakistans cost !!!!!

Of course - common sense is a limited commodity these days - esp with the Generals at GHQ wanting Dollars for DHA'istan building programmes.

CPEC has not delivered much for Pakistan relative to the cost and impact of foreign exchange reserves - this new proposal from China needs to be treated with caution.

 

[Neelo]

This railway makes little sense for Pakistan - given poor trade ties with China and with Pakistan making nothing that China wants or needs. The whole purpose of this rail link is to reduce China's dependency on the Malacca Straights and to offer China a trade and oil corridor that is more risk free by closer links with the middile east and as such China should pay for it itself.

Pakistan should not be tasked with solving China's strategic geopolitical issues at Pakistans cost !!!!!

Of course - common sense is a limited commodity these days - esp with the Generals at GHQ wanting Dollars for DHA'istan building programmes.

CPEC has not delivered much for Pakistan relative to the cost and impact of foreign exchange reserves - this new proposal from China needs to be treated with caution.

It makes all the sense in the world actually and was already proposed decades ago.

If the Karakoram Highway is important, why wouldn’t this railway be? It serves to connect GB to the rest of Pakistan, whilst also forming a vital connection towards China and Central Asia as a whole.

Khunjerab Pass - Wikipedia

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[Redbeanpaste]

This railway makes little sense for Pakistan - given poor trade ties with China and with Pakistan making nothing that China wants or needs. The whole purpose of this rail link is to reduce China's dependency on the Malacca Straights and to offer China a trade and oil corridor that is more risk free by closer links with the middile east and as such China should pay for it itself.

Pakistan should not be tasked with solving China's strategic geopolitical issues at Pakistans cost !!!!!

Of course - common sense is a limited commodity these days - esp with the Generals at GHQ wanting Dollars for DHA'istan building programmes.

CPEC has not delivered much for Pakistan relative to the cost and impact of foreign exchange reserves - this new proposal from China needs to be treated with caution.

Exactly! China bribed decision makers with a few million and is getting Pakistani taxpayers to pay hard cash for Chinese strategic objectives.

 

[HAIDER]

For China trade only rail road is secured to transport good through Pakistan. But, Pakistan small manufacturing industry is destroying and causing massive unemployment.

 

[Muji.Iqbal]

Good we should depend less on the West on everything.

 

[Hakikat ve Hikmet]

Now, the ball is deep inside the Pak court. Flour, butter, sugar etc, are ready, it's time to make the Helva....

A truly patriotic and honest public leadership is the call of the day....

 

[Ali_Baba]

It makes all the sense in the world actually and was already proposed decades ago.

If the Karakoram Highway is important, why wouldn’t this railway be? It serves to connect GB to the rest of Pakistan, whilst also forming a vital connection towards China and Central Asia as a whole.

Khunjerab Pass - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Karakoram Highway is sufficient for what China actually "buys" from Pakistan .....

 

[Neelo]

Karakoram Highway is sufficient for what China actually "buys" from Pakistan .....

Karakoram Highway wasn’t built for China to buy anything you moron.

 

[Maula Jatt]

Karakoram Highway is sufficient for what China actually "buys" from Pakistan .....

I am not a fan of this $58 billion dollars worth of choona (although I support ML-1 upgradation but not a rail connection with China and definitely not worth paying$58 billion for it)
But KKH was foremost a millitary project not an economic one

 

[BamsiBey]

Railways and roads are always good for economy infact they're backbone to economic growth

Anyone suggesting otherwise is dumb.