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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?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday April 21 2015, @05:39AM
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.
Washington DC delenda est.