... CPEC as a strategic pivot in the whole developing Afro-Eurasian land mass connectivity. As an important example, the shortest transport route China-Africa will go through CPEC. Strategic energy lines with the Persian Gulf and Central Asia will connect CPEC as well—even to India [
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Pakistan has surpassed Western strategic thinking with a transition from Geostrategy to Geoeconomics. Pakistan, not the EU, understands the game of Geoeconomics on a continental scale.
With a friendly government now ruling Afghanistan with ...
... the informal setting of the Wuhan Summit of 2018 was meant to induce a reset in ties, notwithstanding the bonhomie and geniality that was manifest, it would be risky to consider the bedevilling issues stemming from Chinese imperviousness to strident Indian criticism over the sovereignty contravening China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) component within the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The Chinese refusal to allow Indian candidature of NSG membership decoupled from that of Pakistan, that is viewed and regarded as deeply and qualitatively odious, by the latter, and the nature ...
... China, Pakistan and the United States in Oman, in which the revival of peace talks with the Taliban was discussed. Hence both Afghanistan and India should also perceive the CPEC project a threat to them. It also pertinent to discuss here that US backing India on CPEC by claiming that it runs through the disputed territory, how self -centered these nations on halting the development on those disputed regions and on other hand they are concerned with peace and prosperity in Afghanistan.
Summing up the above arguments,...
