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China's 'Belt and Road' Plan in Pakistan Takes a Military Turn
When President Trump started the new year by suspending billions of dollars of security aid to Pakistan, one theory was that it would scare the Pakistani military into cooperating better with its American allies.
The reality was that Pakistan already had a replacement sponsor lined up.
Just two weeks later, the Pakistani Air Force and Chinese officials were putting the final touches on a secret proposal to expand Pakistan's building of Chinese military jets, weaponry and other hardware. The confidential plan, reviewed by The New York Times, would also deepen the cooperation between China and Pakistan in space, a frontier the Pentagon recently said Beijing was trying to militarize after decades of playing catch-up.
All those military projects were designated as part of China's Belt and Road Initiative, a $1 trillion chain of infrastructure development programs stretching across some 70 countries, built and financed by Beijing.
Chinese officials have repeatedly said the Belt and Road is purely an economic project with peaceful intent. But with its plan for Pakistan, China is for the first time explicitly tying a Belt and Road proposal to its military ambitions — and confirming the concerns of a host of nations who suspect the infrastructure initiative is really about helping China project armed might.
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(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Friday December 28 2018, @08:37AM (4 children)
What the fuck is Indo-Aryan? Are we reading Nazi literature again? Sorry dude, your racism is showing tuck it in.
You could have used the right work - a radical crazy Muslim nation - armed by the USA [wikipedia.org] to displace pluralist democracy of India.
PS: Don't quote Wikipedia.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Saturday December 29 2018, @09:08AM (3 children)
That's the dominant ethnic group in Pakistan. Sorry dude, your ignorance or SJW-ism is showing... oh, sorry, they're the same thing aren't they.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Saturday December 29 2018, @09:32AM (2 children)
First of all 'they' are called Pakistani and your itch to bring race (you are an ignorant idiot who is trying to get away by using "ethnicity" to refer to race) is why you are being called a racist. The major ethnicity in Pakistan is Punjabi, and even there the dominant people think they are the descendants of Gengiz Khan and Ghauri [wikipedia.org].
If I was an SJW I would be demanding your death or at least a ban. You are free to talk and I am free to call you out for the little racist uneducated moron that you are. Unless you are actually not for freedom of speech and you just want to shut me up.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 29 2018, @07:48PM (1 child)
i think the op was just trying to differentiate Indians and Pakistanis by ethnic group. you're one of these stupid bitches who thinks it's evil just to identify people by race/ethnicity and the word Aryan is banned. fuck you,
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Sunday December 30 2018, @04:37PM
And what purpose was solved by pointing out a race that clubs two enemies together into one group? Your stupidity, which I just wish was limited to people with your stature, is so rampant in the USA... there is a reason why everyone all over the world calls Americans uneducated ignorant. It is exactly THIS kind of moronic belligerent love of racial thinking that got you in the mess you are dealing with right now. Just read up on Ghauri - Pakistanis have named a missile after him - a missile that was developed with the help of North Koreans. A missile that has been further developed to carry nuclear bombs developed with the help of Chinese - all under the nose of USA because Americans didn't think that the rest of the world doesn't identify or work upon these "ethnic" boundaries that you came up with.
TL;DR: You point out a race, you are the definition of racist.