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posted by takyon on Monday April 20 2015, @06:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the group-of-two dept.

China intends to invest $46 billion in infrastructure links to Pakistan:

The focus of spending is on building a China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) - a network of roads, railway and pipelines between the long-time allies. They will run some 3,000km (1,865 miles) from Gwadar in Pakistan to China's western Xinjiang region.

The projects will give China direct access to the Indian Ocean and beyond. This marks a major advance in China's plans to boost its economic influence in Central and South Asia, correspondents say, and far exceeds US spending in Pakistan.

[...] Some $15.5bn worth of coal, wind, solar and hydro energy projects will come online by 2017 and add 10,400 megawatts of energy to Pakistan's national grid, according to officials. A $44m optical fibre cable between the two countries is also due to be built.

The Great Game lives. Different players, same game. Equally large implications. Diplomacy game geeks, awake! Who are the players, and what's the play?

 
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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by captain normal on Monday April 20 2015, @08:48PM

    by captain normal (2205) on Monday April 20 2015, @08:48PM (#173273)

    This highway runs right through Jammu and Kashmir which India considers it's territory. Is China now thumbing it's nose at New Delhi? The whole Pakistani occupation of Kashmir sounds a lot like the recent Russian occupation of Crimea. What with running out the native population and replacing it with peoples of the invading force. Pakistan has already given (sold? Traded?) parts of Kashmir to China.
    Now is India just going to sit still on this, or are the sabers going to come out? How is the US going to react?
    Is this highway, besides importing coal and oil to China, also going to import Islamic jihadists to China?

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday April 21 2015, @05:39AM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday April 21 2015, @05:39AM (#173408) Journal

    import Islamic jihadists to China

    That's an interesting externality to consider, isn't it? The Uighurs on their own are so incredibly outnumbered by the Han and so hapless. Importing a bunch of Taliban-style guys would make being a Han colonist in Xinjiang considerably less fun. Of course, Beijing being Beijing and the Han being Han, it would definitely all end in tears for the Uighurs.

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