US-China Strategic Rivalry Plays Out in Pakistan
Posted By: earlybird, 12/11/2021 1:38:32 PM
U.S. interests in Pakistan include maintaining stability in South Asia, preventing war between India and Pakistan, containing international terrorism launched from Afghanistan, as well as countering the Chinese regime’s expanding influence and alliance building. Once the primary U.S. ally in the region, as Pakistan sinks deeper into China’s orbit, U.S.-Pakistan relations become more and more ambiguous. Pakistan is also slipping deeper into debt and regional stability is threatened. Chinese leader Xi Jinping first announced the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) during a 2015 visit to Islamabad. He spoke of a long-term vision for Pakistan’s development, pledging between $40 and $60 billion of investments.
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This journalist’s story of how China/CCP has taken over Pakistan is a tutorial on how they have been operating all over the world. Belt and Road initiative. “Helping" troubled countries by loaning them huge amounts so that they are seriously in debt to them. Thus, they effectively “own” them