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Title    China's $1 Trillion Belt and Road Project Includes Military Cooperation With Pakistan
Date    Thursday December 27 2018, @05:25PM
Author    Fnord666
Topic   
from the didn't-see-that-one-coming dept.
https://soylentnews.org/politics/article.pl?sid=18/12/27/1533254

takyon writes:

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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Links

  1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
  2. "China's 'Belt and Road' Plan in Pakistan Takes a Military Turn" - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/world/asia/pakistan-china-belt-road-military.html
  3. "suspending billions of dollars of security aid to Pakistan" - https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/947802588174577664
  4. "trying to militarize" - https://media.defense.gov/2018/Aug/16/2001955282/-1/-1/1/2018-CHINA-MILITARY-POWER-REPORT.PDF
  5. "$1 trillion" - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/business/china-railway-one-belt-one-road-1-trillion-plan.html
  6. "China's Xi Jinping Negotiates $46bn Superhighway to Pakistan" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/04/20/1531248
  7. "China Plans $503 Billion Investment in High-Speed Rail by 2020" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/01/01/1712243
  8. "Chinese President Xi Jinping Pledges $124 Billion for One Belt, One Road Initiative" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/05/16/0340240
  9. "Gunmen Attack Chinese Consulate in Pakistan" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/11/24/0011246
  10. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=30843

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