Chinese President's Visit to Pakistan: Shifting Alliances in South Asia?

[RiazHaq]

Haq's Musings: Post Cold War Line-Up: Pakistan-China-Russia Vs India-US-Japan in South Asia?

“America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.” Henry Kissinger

Rapidly unfolding events confirm shifting post-cold-war alliances in South Asia. Chinese President Xi Jinpeng is starting his first state visit to Pakistan to commit investment of over $45 billion in Pakistan, representing the single largest Chinese investment in a foreign country to date.

This investment is part of China's “One Belt, One Road” initiative, which is a global project in character and scope representing China’s inexorable rise on the world stage as a superpower. The Pakistan part of is variously described as Pakistan-China"economic corridor", "industrial corridor", "trade corridor" and "strategic corridor".


Pak-China Industrial Corridor Source: Wall Street Journal


Chinese and Pakistani naval forces have also agreed to boost maritime security cooperation in the Indian ocean with the sale of eight diesel-electric AIP-equipped submarines capable of carrying nuclear weapons. This cooperation is aimed at defending against any threats to shipping lanes in and out of Pakistani ports serving the planned Pak-China Corridor.

Russia, too, has lifted arms sales embargo on Pakistan and agreed to sell weapons and make energy infrastructure investments. Plans are in place for first-ever Pakistan-Russia military exercises.

These development come on the heels of US President Barack Obama's second visit to India and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent tour of Western capitals with the signing of deals confirming Modi's India's status as the West's latest darling.

How strategic are China-Pakistan ties? I am reproducing the following post I published about two years ago:

China's new Prime Minister Mr. Li KeQiang has just ended a two-day visit to Pakistan. Speaking to the Senate, Li declared that "the development of China cannot be separated from the friendship with Pakistan". To make it more concrete, the Chinese Premier brought with him a 5-points proposal which emphasizes "strategic and long-term planning", "connectivity and maritime sectors" and "China-Pakistan economic corridor project".

Source: China Daily

From L to R: Premier Lee, President Zardari and Prime Minister Khoso
Here's a recent report by China's State-owned Xinhua News Agency that can help put the Chinese premier's speech in context:
“As a global economic power, China has a tremendous number of economic sea lanes to protect. China is justified to develop its military capabilities to safeguard its sovereignty and protect its vast interests around the world."
The Xinhua report has for the first time shed light on China's growing concerns with US pivot to Asia which could threaten China's international trade and its economic lifeline of energy and other natural resources it needs to sustain and grow its economy. This concern has been further reinforced by the following:
1. Frequent US statements to "check" China's rise. For example, former US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said in a 2011 address to the Naval Postgraduate School in California: "We try everything we can to cooperate with these rising powers and to work with them, but to make sure at the same time that they do not threaten stability in the world, to be able to project our power, to be able to say to the world that we continue to be a force to be reckoned with." He added that "we continue to confront rising powers in the world - China, India, Brazil, Russia, countries that we need to cooperate with. We need to hopefully work with. But in the end, we also need to make sure do not threaten the stability of the world."

Source: The Guardian
2. Chinese strategists see a long chain of islands from Japan in the north, all the way down to Australia, all United States allies, all potential controlling chokepoints that could block Chinese sea lanes and cripple its economy, business and industry.


Karakoram Highway-World's Highest Paved International Road at 15000 ft.
Chinese Premier's emphasis on "connectivity and maritime sectors" and "China-Pakistan economic corridor project" is mainly driven by their paranoia about the US intentions to "check China's rise" It is intended to establish greater maritime presence at Gwadar, located close to the strategic Strait of Hormuz, and to build land routes (motorways, rail links, pipelines) from the Persian Gulf through Pakistan to Western China. This is China's insurance to continue trade with West Asia and the Middle East in case of hostilities with the United States and its allies in Asia.

Pakistan's Gawadar Port- located 400 Km from the Strait of Hormuz
As to the benefits for Pakistanis, the Chinese investment in "connectivity and maritime sectors" and "China-Pakistan economic corridor project" will help build infrastructure, stimulate Pakistan's economy and create millions of badly needed jobs.
Clearly, China-Pakistan ties have now become much more strategic than the US-Pakistan ties, particularly since 2011 because, as American Journalist Mark Mazzetti of New York Times put it, the Obama administration's heavy handed policies "turned Pakistan against the United States". A similar view is offered by a former State Department official Vali Nasr in his book "The Dispensable Nation".

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Haq's Musings: Post Cold War Line-Up: Pakistan-China-Russia Vs India-US-Japan in South Asia?

 

[RiazHaq]

#Pakistan warms up to #Russia with helicopter deal, gas pipeline investment Pakistan Warms Up to Russia With Helicopter Deal - WSJ via @WSJ Russia has agreed to sell military helicopters to Pakistan and is poised to build a $2 billion natural-gas pipeline in the South Asian country—its biggest investment there in decades—as Islamabad turns toward a former adversary and away from the U.S., its longtime ally.

Islamabad has been weighing its strategic options amid rising tension with Washington, which views Pakistan as an unreliable ally in combating Islamist militants in the region, including neighboring Afghanistan.

On Thursday, Pakistan said it would buy four Russian Mi-35 attack helicopters for an undisclosed price, after a spate of high-level visits between the two countries.

In the Russian city of Ufa last month, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met Russian President Vladimir Putin and declared that he wanted a “multidimensional relationship” encompassing defense, commerce and energy. That represents a major shift for both countries, in response to a changing geopolitical dynamic. Pakistan worked alongside the U.S. to defeat Soviet forces that occupied Afghanistan in the 1980s, while Russia built close ties with India, Pakistan’s estranged neighbor and rival.

Now, the U.S. is increasingly embracing India as a counterweight to a rising China, which it views as a strategic competitor. That has encouraged erstwhile enemies Russia and Pakistan to mend fences.

“Pakistan has decided it is no longer an American client state,” said Zafar Hilaly, a former senior Pakistani diplomat. “Pakistan has decided that although America will remain important, it must have other alternatives.”

The biggest marker of this new relationship is a proposed 1,100-kilometer (684-mile) pipeline, to be built by Russian state-owned industrial conglomerate Rostec. The two countries are expected to sign an agreement to move ahead within the next month, officials from both sides said.

The pipeline would carry imported natural gas from the port city of Karachi to Lahore in the east, helping the country deal with crippling energy shortages. Rostec, run by a close friend of Mr. Putin’s, would finance, own and operate the pipeline for 25 years.

“It’s very important for Russia from a geopolitical point of view. Russia is trying to enter this market and compete with China and the U.S.,” said Vladimir Sotnikov, senior research associate at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute for Eastern Studies.

Despite Islamabad’s outreach to Russia, experts said it is likely to seek continued close ties to the U.S., which is Pakistan’s biggest supplier of military aid and equipment. Since 2002, the U.S. has provided Pakistan with $31 billion in civilian and military aid and reimbursements, according to the Congressional Research Service.

Pakistan recently signed a nearly $1 billion deal to purchase 15 American AH-1Z Viper helicopters, as well as 1,000 Hellfire missiles and other equipment.

Both Russia and China are concerned about protecting their southern underbellies against the export of extremism and instability from Pakistan and Afghanistan, by investing there to promote economic development.

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The Russian pipeline would represent Moscow’s first major project in Pakistan since the early 1970s, when the Soviet Union helped build a steel mill in Karachi during a brief warming of relations that followed the election of a left-leaning leader in Islamabad. The two countries are now discussing ways that Russia can upgrade the mill, Pakistani officials said.
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Rostec said it would raise the funds needed for the project. The U.S. imposed financial sanctions on Rostec after Russia’s interventions in Ukraine, effectively cutting it off from U.S.-dollar financing.

 

[RiazHaq]

#Pakistan-#Russia talks on delivery of Su-35, Mi-35s underway: Russian Deputy FM Pak-Russia talks on delivery of Su-35, Mi-35s underway: Russian Deputy FM - Pakistan - DAWN.COM

NIZHYNY TAGIL: Pakistan and Russia are in talks about the delivery of Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets and previously agreed upon delivery of Mi-35M helicopters, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister (FM) Sergei Ryabkov said, Sputnik reported.

Earlier this year, a draft contract for the delivery of four Mi-35M 'Hind E' combat helicopters was sent to Pakistan from Russia, a source in the Russian military and technical cooperation was quoted by the Russian news agency TASS.

Increasing military cooperation between Islamabad and Moscow would not negatively impact Russia's ties with India, Ryabkov said, adding that Pak-Russia ties were improving in other sectors as well ─ including energy.

The Russian Deputy FM Ryabkov referred to Pakistan as Russia's closest partner and said, "I do not think that the contacts under discussion will cause jealousy on the part of any of the two sides."

The twin-engine Su-35 is a fourth generation multi-role combat aircraft which also incorporates technology from fifth generation jets, according to details available on the Sukhoi company's website. It is also said to be more agile as compared to previous models.

Read: Pakistan, Russia sign landmark defence cooperation agreement

Pakistan and Russia had signed a bilateral defence cooperation agreement aimed at strengthening military-to-military relations in November last year. The deal had to be followed by another ‘technical cooperation agreement’ to pave the way for sale of defence equipment to Pakistan.

 

[wiseone2]

"Increasing military cooperation between Islamabad and Moscow would not negatively impact Russia's ties with India,"

that will be a hard one

 

[RiazHaq]

#India may matter less in the world during #Trump presidency. #Pakistan, #China #Russia #Asia

http://www.hindustantimes.com/analy...-presidency/story-ipGieaebsZNTaW8JJGOIrJ.html


The diplomatic cover afforded by the Obama administration allowed the Modi government to focus its energies on isolating Pakistan internationally and get away with a heavy-handed policy in Kashmir – both policies that served to bolster the BJP domestically. Russia and China were relatively marginal to India’s diplomatic considerations, even though Delhi valued Moscow as a source of weapons and energy while the enhanced trade with China created a measure of interdependence that managed tensions. Delhi could choose not to participate in China’s ambitious One Belt One Road (OBOR) infrastructural initiative because the US, Western powers and Japan were envisaged as the primary sources of security, legitimacy and resources for India.


This entire calculus now stands upended. Trump is keen on dismantling the pillars of US foreign policy in a manner that makes the US’ political and bureaucratic machinery deeply uncomfortable. He wants to scale back American commitments abroad, he’d like to focus on an ‘America first’ policy and is expected to be explicitly transactional in his dealings with other countries. He has chosen a pro-Russian figure in Rex Tillerson as his Secretary of State and picked China hawk Peter Navarro to head the National Trade Council, leading many to anticipate serious tensions with China on trade issues.

Some in Delhi may believe that an aggressive US that counters an assertive China works for India. But policymakers will know that it is one thing to play geopolitical chess in peace time, i.e. strengthen regional partnerships to counter a rising power, and quite another being on the cusp of a US-China conflict in Asia and having to choose sides. It’s not clear if such developments will materialise soon, but the scene of global politics will move to great power dynamics between US, Russia and China. India will be peripheral to the concerns of all three for different reasons.

As far as the US is concerned, it is not clear how much attention Trump will devote to India while he is preoccupied with the inevitable domestic turbulence his presidency will generate and the resetting of ties with Russia and China. India’s leverage abroad now appears to depend on the Washington security establishment’s ability to normalise Trump and make him aware of Delhi’s utility to American strategy in Asia. But that establishment itself will take time recovering and coping with the changes he wants and India as a priority could slip in the process. Trump did not mention India in his foreign policy speech on April 27, 2016 and it is not clear if he has any definite ideas as to what to do with the relationship.

 

[RiazHaq]

#China makes worldwide ports' investments as great maritime power. #CPEC #Gwadar #Pakistan https://ig.ft.com/sites/china-ports … … via @F

Pakistan’s Arabian Sea port of Gwadar is perched on the world’s energy jugular. Sea lanes nearby carry most of China’s oil imports; any disruption could choke the world’s second-largest economy.

Owned, financed and built by China, Gwadar occupies a strategic location. Yet Islamabad and Beijing for years denied any military plans for the harbour, insisting it was a purely commercial project to boost trade. Now the mask is slipping.

“As Gwadar becomes more active as a port, Chinese traffic both commercial and naval will grow to this region,” says a senior foreign ministry official in Islamabad. “There are no plans for a permanent Chinese naval base. But the relationship is stretching out to the sea.”

Gwadar is part of a much bigger ambition, driven by President Xi Jinping, for China to become a maritime superpower. An FT investigation reveals how far Beijing has already come in achieving that objective over the past six years.


How China rules the waves
FT investigation: Beijing has spent billions expanding its ports network to secure sea lanes and establish itself as a maritime power

YESTERDAY by James Kynge, Chris Campbell, Amy Kazmin and Farhan Bokhari

Piraeus

(Greece)

Strait of Gibraltar

CHINA

Strait of

Hormuz

Suez Canal

ATLANTIC

OCEAN

Maday Island

(Myanmar)

Gwadar

(Pakistan)

Bab al-Mandab Strait

PACIFIC

OCEAN

China’s global port

ownership clusters

around key trade routes

and maritime chokepoints

Djibouti

Panama Canal

Hambantota

(Sri Lanka)

Strait of

Malacca

São Tomé

and Príncipe

Strait of Sunda

(Indonesia)

Darwin

(Australia)

Ownership or investment

in foreign ports since 1994

Walvis Bay

(Namibia)

INDIAN

OCEAN

Mainland Chinese companies

Hong Kong (Hutchison)

Major shipping route

Maritime chokepoint

Other shipping routes

Ports in China and Hong Kong not shown. Includes investments announced and completed
Sources: King’s College, London; FT research; CIA (shipping routes)

Pakistan’s Arabian Sea port of Gwadar is perched on the world’s energy jugular. Sea lanes nearby carry most of China’s oil imports; any disruption could choke the world’s second-largest economy.

Owned, financed and built by China, Gwadar occupies a strategic location. Yet Islamabad and Beijing for years denied any military plans for the harbour, insisting it was a purely commercial project to boost trade. Now the mask is slipping.

“As Gwadar becomes more active as a port, Chinese traffic both commercial and naval will grow to this region,” says a senior foreign ministry official in Islamabad. “There are no plans for a permanent Chinese naval base. But the relationship is stretching out to the sea.”

Gwadar is part of a much bigger ambition, driven by President Xi Jinping, for China to become a maritime superpower. An FT investigation reveals how far Beijing has already come in achieving that objective over the past six years.

A Pakistani naval guard at Gwadar port which was financed, built and is now owned by China © Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images
Investments into a vast network of harbours across the globe have made Chinese port operators the world leaders. Its shipping companies carry more cargo than those of any other nation — five of the top 10 container ports in the world are in mainland China with another in Hong Kong. Its coastguard has the globe’s largest maritime law enforcement fleet, its navy is the world’s fastest growing among major powers and its fishing armada numbers some 200,000 seagoing vessels.

The emergence of China as a maritime superpower is set to challenge a US command of the seas that has underwritten a crucial element of Pax Americana, the relative period of peace enjoyed in the west since the second world war. As US President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take power, strategic tensions between China and the US are already evident in the South China Sea, where Beijing has pledged to enforce its claim to disputed islands and atolls. Rex Tillerson, the Trump nominee for US secretary of state, said on Wednesday that Washington should block Beijing’s access to the islands. Relations were also dented over Mr Trump’s warm overtures toward Taiwan, which China regards as a breakaway province.

China understands maritime influence in the same way as Alfred Thayer Mahan, the 19th century American strategist. “Control of the sea,” Mr Mahan wrote, “by maritime commerce and naval supremacy, means predominant influence in the world; because, however great the wealth of the land, nothing facilitates the necessary exchanges as does the sea.”



Drummed into military service


The Gwadar template, where Beijing used its commercial know-how and financial muscle to secure ownership over a strategic trading base, only to enlist it later into military service, has been replicated in other key locations.

In Sri Lanka, Greece and Djibouti in the Horn of Africa, Chinese investment in civilian ports has been followed by deployments or visits of People’s Liberation Army Navy vessels and in some cases announcements of longer term military contingencies.

China’s ‘dual use’ commercial and naval ports

Confirmed

Possible

High-profile naval visits to ports owned by China

Piraeus

(Greece)

CHINA

Gwadar (Pakistan)

South China

Sea atolls

Djibouti

Colombo

(Sri Lanka)

São Tomé

and Príncipe

Seychelles*

Darwin**

(Australia)

Walvis Bay

(Namibia)

'Dual use' is defined as Chinese owned or invested ports confirmed, or proposed, as engaging in both commerce and military use
*China has not invested in a port, but its navy uses Seychelles' facilities in anti-piracy operations in the Indian Ocean
**The US has expressed concern over the possible use of Chinese-owned Darwin port for military purposes
Source: FT research
“There is an inherent duality in the facilities that China is establishing in foreign ports, which are ostensibly commercial but quickly upgradeable to carry out essential military missions,” says Abhijit Singh, senior fellow at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi. “They are great for the soft projection of hard power.”

Data compiled or commissioned by the Financial Times from third-party sources show the extent of China’s dominance in most maritime domains.

China’s port operators take up strong positions

2015, twenty-foot equivalent units (million)

0

10

20

30

40

50

PSA International

(Singapore)

Hutchison

Ports Holdings

DP World

(UAE)

APM Terminals

(Netherlands)

China Merchants

Port Holdings

Cosco Group

Terminal Investment

(Lux. incorporated)

China Shipping

Terminal Development

Evergreen

(Taiwan)

Eurogate

(Germany)

Definition of Chinese port operators includes Hong Kong companies. Figures include total annual throughput for all terminals in which shareholdings held as of Dec 31 2015, adjusted acording to the extent of equity held in each terminal
Source: Drewry
Beijing’s shipping lines deliver more containers than those from any other country, according to data from Drewry, the shipping consultancy. The five big Chinese carriers together controlled 18 per cent of all container shipping handled by the world’s top 20 companies in 2015, higher than the next country, Denmark, the home nation of Maersk Line, the world’s biggest container shipping group.

China’s container shipping lines eclipse those of any other country

2015, twenty-foot equivalent units (million)

0

5

10

15

20

Maersk*

Cosco/CSCL**

MSC

CMA CGM Group

Hapag-Lloyd

Evergreen (2014)

OOCL

APL

Hanjin Shipping

NYK

Hamburg Süd Group*

MOL

Yang Ming

Wan Hai

K Line

HMM

UASC

Zim

SITC

Sinotrans

* Maersk announced deal to buy Hamburg Süd in 2016
** Cosco and CSCL announced their merger in 2015
Source: Drewry
In terms of container ports, China already rules the waves. Nearly two-thirds of the world’s top 50 had some degree of Chinese investment by 2015, up from about one-fifth in 2010, according to FT research.

Chinese investment in the world’s largest ports has boomed

Top 50 container ports ranked by container traffic volume (twenty-foot equivalent unit)

Chinese owned

Chinese invested

No Chinese investment

Greater China (Taiwan) port

Chinese investment announced

Rank

2000

2010

2015

1

Singapore

Hong Kong

Busan

Yangshan (Shanghai)

A 2016 Chinese agreeement

to invest in three new mega

berths in Singapore will

ensure the port maintains

its top global ranking

Yantian (Shenzhen)

Beilun (Ningbo)

Port Klang

Shanghai

Rotterdam

10

Chiwan

Kaohsiung

Jebel Ali

Tanjung Pelapas

Xiamen

Antwerp

Qianwan (Qingdao)

Colombo International

Container Terminal more than

doubled its container throughput

in 2015 to 1.6m TEUs

following a $500m investment

by China Merchants

Holdings International

Hamburg

Qingdao

Ningbo Anch

20

Xingang (Tianjin)

Colombo

Bremerhaven

Valencia

Balboa

Le Havre

Nansha (Guangzhou)

Gwangyang

Jeddah

Algeciras

30

Felixstowe

Laem Chabang

New York

Tokyo

Yokohama

Piraeus

Tangier

Nagoya

Dalian

Kobe

Cosco Pacific, China Merchants

Holdings International and

China Investment Corporation

acquire Kumport, Turkey’s

third largest container

terminal, in 2015

40

Port Klang Anch

Barcelona

Marsaxlokk

Genoa

Coco Solo

Cartagena

All of the world’s top

20 shipping companies

have built up their routes

through Xiamen since 2000

Ho Chi Minh

Ambarli

Jakarta

Keelung

50

Osaka

Definition of Chinese owned and Chinese invested includes Hong Kong investments
Sources: Lloyd's List Intelligence (port rankings); FT research (investments)
And those ports handled 67 per cent of global container volumes, up from 42 per cent in 2010, according to Lloyd’s List Intelligence, the maritime and trade data specialists. If only containers directly handled by Chinese port operators are measured, the level of dominance is reduced but still emphatic. Of the top 10 port operators worldwide, Chinese companies handled 39 per cent of all volumes, almost double the second largest nation group, according to data from Drewry.

Two-thirds of container traffic passes through Chinese owned or invested ports

Twenty-foot equivalent units (million) and percentage of total for world's top 50 container ports

1,000

800

67%

600

400

42%

200

19%

0

2000

2010

2015

Includes estimates of container traffic through ports in which Chinese and Hong Kong companies have investments, even minority stakes
Sources: Lloyd's List Intelligence; FT research
It is not only the world’s biggest ports that have attracted Chinese investments. Dozens of smaller harbours — including some in key strategic locations such as Djibouti, Hambantota in Sri Lanka, Darwin in Australia, Maday Island in Myanmar and proposed ports on the Atlantic Ocean islands of São Tomé and Príncipe and in Walvis Bay in Namibia — have also drawn investments or promises of Chinese port construction.

The total size of these investments is difficult to calculate because of sketchy disclosure. But since 2010, Chinese and Hong Kong companies have completed or announced deals involving at least 40 port projects worth a total of about $45.6bn, according to a study by Sam Beatson and Jim Coke at the Lau China Institute, King’s College London, in co-operation with the Financial Times. A dozen other deals — from Carey Island, Malaysia, to Chongjin in North Korea — have been reported without any financial details.

Chinese investment in foreign ports is speeding up

Number by region

Terminal Link deal in 2013 gave China Merchants

Holdings International ownership of terminals in

more than 10 ports, including Houston and Miami

1994

96

98

2000

02

04

06

08

10

12

14

16

6

North America

0

Latin America and Caribbean

Piraeus (Greece)

6

Europe and Central Asia

0

Djibouti

Middle East and north Africa

6

Sub-Saharan Africa

0

Hambantota (Sri Lanka)

Gwadar (Pakistan)

South Asia

Darwin (Australia)

6

East Asia and Pacific

0

1994

96

98

2000

02

04

06

08

10

12

14

16

Includes both investments announced and completed and investment from Hutchison or Hong Kong-owned concerns. Ports in China and Hong Kong not shown
Sources: King’s College, London; FT research
Rounding out a picture of China’s merchant fleet dominance is the country’s fishing fleet, which is by far the largest in the world, according to a recent paper by Michael McDevitt, a former rear admiral in the US navy and now a senior fellow at CNA Strategic Studies, a US think-tank.

“In the Chinese context, maritime power encompasses more than naval power,” wrote Mr McDevitt. “The maritime power equation includes a large and effective coastguard, a world-class merchant marine and fishing fleet, a globally recognised shipbuilding capacity and an ability to harvest or extract economically important maritime resources, especially fish.”

 

[Razia Sultana]

#China makes worldwide ports' investments as great maritime power. #CPEC #Gwadar #Pakistan https://ig.ft.com/sites/china-ports … … via @F

Pakistan’s Arabian Sea port of Gwadar is perched on the world’s energy jugular. Sea lanes nearby carry most of China’s oil imports; any disruption could choke the world’s second-largest economy.

Owned, financed and built by China, Gwadar occupies a strategic location. Yet Islamabad and Beijing for years denied any military plans for the harbour, insisting it was a purely commercial project to boost trade. Now the mask is slipping.

Drummed into military service

The Gwadar template, where Beijing used its commercial know-how and financial muscle to secure ownership over a strategic trading base, only to enlist it later into military service, has been replicated in other key locations.

In Sri Lanka, Greece and Djibouti in the Horn of Africa, Chinese investment in civilian ports has been followed by deployments or visits of People’s Liberation Army Navy vessels and in some cases announcements of longer term military contingencies.

Has Pakistan surrendered its sovereignty over Gwadar Port?
((Gwadar owned.... by China,, used...... financial muscle to secure ownership.... ))
I am surprized that instead of feeling sorry over these terms used for a Pakistani territory, you are proudly posting this report on pdf.

 

[RiazHaq]

#India dismayed at #UK support to #China-#Pakistan Economic Corridor. #CPEC http://www.deccanherald.com/content/591240/india-dismayed-uk-support-china.html …

India will convey its disappointment with the United Kingdom’s support to the proposed China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

India will voice its concerns about the British government's move to encourage UK companies to invest in projects along the CPEC.

Corridor areas

New Delhi is opposed to the CPEC as it is set to pass through areas, which India accused Pakistan of illegally occupying in Kashmir, sources told DH.

The UK formally expressed interest in the CPEC during the recent visit to Pakistan of Alok Sharma, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Minister for Asia and the Pacific) of British government.

Has Pakistan surrendered its sovereignty over Gwadar Port?
((Gwadar owned.... by China,, used...... financial muscle to secure ownership.... ))
I am surprized that instead of feeling sorry over these terms used for a Pakistani territory, you are proudly posting this report on pdf.

Yes, dozens of countries, including many western nations where China is investing in posts and infrastructure, have surrendered their sovereignty to the Chinese

 

[Kaniska]

Has Pakistan surrendered its sovereignty over Gwadar Port?
((Gwadar owned.... by China,, used...... financial muscle to secure ownership.... ))
I am surprized that instead of feeling sorry over these terms used for a Pakistani territory, you are proudly posting this report on pdf.

They do not have much choice rather than depending on China...So this is the best bet for Pakistan to develop themselves.

 

[faithfulguy]

Has Pakistan surrendered its sovereignty over Gwadar Port?
((Gwadar owned.... by China,, used...... financial muscle to secure ownership.... ))
I am surprized that instead of feeling sorry over these terms used for a Pakistani territory, you are proudly posting this report on pdf.

Soon, India will allow US to post troops in India. Indians would start to brag that they host US troops and is a key US allie..

 

[Khanate]

Has Pakistan surrendered its sovereignty over Gwadar Port?
((Gwadar owned.... by China,, used...... financial muscle to secure ownership.... ))
I am surprized that instead of feeling sorry over these terms used for a Pakistani territory, you are proudly posting this report on pdf.

Using same logic, India is surrendering its sovereignty to US. A massive shift from socialists who didn't have Pepsi in 90s.

 

[Razia Sultana]

Yes, dozens of countries, including many western nations where China is investing in posts and infrastructure, have surrendered their sovereignty to the Chinese

Many nations invite investments from other nations for development of infrastructure but this I read for the first time that some nation has used financial muscle to secure ownership of a foreign port. I would be grateful if you could provide more such examples. Few nations compromise their sovereignty to secure some financial benefits or national security. No big deal but a big deal certainly for a nuclear power.

Soon, India will allow US to post troops in India. Indians would start to brag that they host US troops and is a key US allie..

We had strategic ties with Soviet Union but never allowed them to post their troops and we never bragged about being their ally and preferred to be called as a non-aligned nation. We believe in aligning on values and national interests. I dont think India will sell or let out her land for money or strategic gains.

Using same logic, India is surrendering its sovereignty to US. A massive shift from socialists who didn't have Pepsi in 90s.

Russia shunned communism and became a democratic capitalist country. China shunned communism and adopted a capitalist economy but remained an authoritarian polity. India still has socialist democratic approach and has responded positively to new globalized liberal economy. Has Russia, China or India surrendered their sovereignty to the US? If so, how? Can you elaborate?

 

[Khanate]

Russia shunned communism and became a democratic capitalist country. China shunned communism and adopted a capitalist economy but remained an authoritarian polity. India still has socialist democratic approach and has responded positively to new globalized liberal economy. Has Russia, China or India surrendered their sovereignty to the US? If so, how? Can you elaborate?

Wait, you are trying to polish your socialist credentials? A little too late for that.

I'm using the same logic you're using. Not sure why you're so surprised.