The presence of China in Pakistan's deep sea strategic port has disturbed the United States. Washington fears that the port might be used as a
listening post to monitor US military activities in the Persian Gulf.
India, Pakistani analysts say, has a different kind of fear.
this will give China a head-start over the United States in trade with Central Asia, especially the oil and gas trade. So a new Great Game is on and Pakistan appears to be paying a heavy price.
Balochistan burning: Great Game over Gwadar Port
(1) It is also widely claimed that there is a Chinese interest in reaching the blue waters of Arabian Sea. This is cited as a strategic move by Chinese as they funded US $198 million (out of total phase I cost of US $248 million) and also provided 450 Engineers on site to finish the project on time. It is said that China is trying to develop its Western regions at par with its Eastern regions to reduce the economic gap within China and to stop the internal migration of people from West to East. It is famously called their Go West policy. To market products produced in Western China, ports of Shanghai or other eastern ports are almost 3000 km away from the western production centers where as Gwadar provides access to a port at just 1500 km.
(2) There is another dimension to this project where Gwadar port is considered as the naval outpost for the Chinese. It has been called part of String of Pearls strategy of Chinese where theyve got hold of strategic ports in Gwadar, Bangladesh, SriLanka, Burma, Thailand, Combodia, and South China Sea etc. On a world map, these ports form of string (of pearls) which may form as Chinese line of defense to control oil movement. 80% of oil used in China goes through shipping lines of Malacca Straits. This strategy of a series of ports along the oil shipment routes gives China a forward footing. It is said that China is also wary that US may cut off its oil supplies through Malacca straits in case of any increase of hostilities on Taiwan issue.
(3) China has however, always denied that Gwadar will ever be used by Chinese military. Publicly they have always called it a civilian port of Pakistan.
Dimension Three: Iranian and Indian Interests in the Area
(1) Gwadar port is also making regional players nervous. Iran which is only 72 km away from Gwadar considers it as an economic threat taking business away from Iranian ports. So in competition to Gwadar, Iran has developed its own port called Chabahar with the help of India. Chabahar is located in Iranian Balochistan province of Seestan. India is also building 213 km long road to connect this Iranian port with Afghanistan. India is eyeing this Iranian port as its own shortest route to Central Asian markets and may be a counter balance to Chinese influence in Gwadar.
(2) India may also consider the Chinese influence in Gwadar as a move by China to encircle India, hence their interest in developing Iranian port of Chabahar.
Gwadar Port: A Great Development Project Or A Great Game? : ALL THINGS PAKISTAN
It is obvious that it is for Chinas interest. and mature countries dont usually give access to ports to other countries.
What about the other 440 companies owned by other countries?/ Arent they brothers too????
Pakistans Thar coal: a comparative study
By Kamran Riaz
In Pakistan, people, who have absolutely no knowledge of an issue under discussion, tell conspiracy theories about it with such conviction that one starts believing that perhaps these people are narrating a firsthand account of acts to which they were eye witnesses.
Something similar is happening with Thar Coal today. Print and electronic media are awash with stories about how we have the worlds largest reserves of coal in the Thar desert but still we are not benefiting from this coal.
Coal occurs in nature in different types. The deposits at Thar are of Lignite type of coal. These deposits have very high moisture content with water level approaching almost 50% and are considered to be of inferior quality. This coal is highly volatile and cannot be transported over long distances. So, exporting this coal after extraction from ground or transporting it to more convenient locations is not possible. That is why it is suitable primarily for mine-mouth power generation.
The size of these reserves is being reported as 175 billion tons and this figure is being repeatedly touted on the media as enough for fulfilling our power generation needs for centuries to come.
The fact is that the reported reserves of 175 billion tons at Thar are not proved-recoverable reserves but rather the bulk of these reserves have a relatively low degree of geological assurance. Out of these purported 175 billion tons, only about 2.7 billion tons are measured reserves while about 9.3 billion tons are indicated reserves. The remaining 163 billion tons are inferred reserves (lying within a radius of 1.2 to 4.8 km from a point of coal measurement) and hypothetical reserves (undiscovered coal, generally an extension of inferred reserves in which coal lies more than 4.8 km from a point of measurement). It is obvious that given the geological evidence so far available, the claim of 175 billion tons of reserves is highly speculative. If the Thar coal reserves had really been that big as is being claimed then there would have been a long queue of international mining giants trying to get concessions for mining rights. If such companies can go to places like war torn Iraq, they can certainly come to Pakistan. But the apparent lack of interest from foreign investors as a tell tale sign that these claims of huge and profitable reserves are not believed by the major players in the field.
In fact after doing a preliminary feasibility study in 2002, Shenhua had reached the conclusion that the Thar coal project was not feasible purely an economic basis at that time because the cost of extraction of coal was very high and based on international coal prices at the time, it made more sense to import coal for power generation. However, the company recommended that Thar coal should still be exploited for social reasons as the project would help in social uplift of the extremely backward Thar area.
It is also another myth that this project will alleviate the need for hydel electricity. The fact is that any electricity eventually produced from Thar coal would be at least twice as expensive as that generated from large dams.
full text in following link
Pakistan?s Thar coal: a comparative study | Overseas Pakistani Friends
Top ten countries Lignite Coal Reserves
(Million tons)
01. Australia 37.30
02. USA 30.24
03. China 18.60
04. Serbia (Kosovo) 13.50
05. Russian Federation 10.45
06. Germany 6.56
07. India 4.60
08. Greece 3.90
09. Kazakhstan 3.13
10. Hungry 2.93
Total proved Recoverable
Lignite Coal reserves
in all the countries of the
world combined 149.86
Source:World
Rank Country/Region Coal production
(million tonnes) share of
total (%)
World 6,395.6 100
1 China 2,536.7 39.7
2 United States 1,039.2 16.2
European Union 590.5 9.2
3 India 478.2 7.5
4 Australia 393.9 6.2
5 Russia 314.2 4.9
6 South Africa 269.4 4.2
7 Germany 201.9 3.2
8 Indonesia 174.8 2.7
9 Poland 145.8 2.3
10 Kazakhstan 94.4 1.5
11 Turkey 76.6 1.2
12 Ukraine 76.3 1.2
13 Colombia 71.7 1.1
14 Canada 69.4 1.1
15 Czech Republic 62.6 1.0
16 Greece 62.5 1.0
17 Vietnam 41.2 0.6
18 Romania 35.4 0.6
19 Bulgaria 30.4 0.5
20 Thailand 18.3 0.3
21 Spain 18.2 0.3
22 United Kingdom 17.0 0.3
23 Mexico 12.2 0.2
24 Hungary 9.8 0.2
25 Venezuela 8.0 0.1
26 Brazil 5.9 0.1
27 New Zealand 4.6 0.1
28 Pakistan 3.6 0.1
28 Zimbabwe 3.3
29 South Korea 3.2
31 Japan 1.3
32 France 0.9
Today in the United States, there are more than 3.3 million Chinese about 1% of the total population of which, by far the vast majority belongs to the middle class social stratum. The influx continues, where each year ethnic Chinese people from the People's Republic of China, Taiwan and to a lesser extent Southeast Asia move to the US.
MAYBE US AND CHINA ARE ALSO BROTHERS or maybe BLOOD RELATED BROTHERS since 10,000 and 3.3 million has such a big difference mathematically. And oh yes by the way India has 189,470 chinese working there. so what should i call ur theory ???
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