Central Asia Confronts Obstacles On Path To Warm-Water Port
May 6th, 2021
Via Eurasianet, a report on Central Asia’s efforts to find access to a warm-water port: A top trade priority for Central Asian leaders is access to a warm-water port. Whether they succeed any time soon appears to depend heavily on China. Policy changes and new infrastructure are already easing Central Asia’s comparative isolation from world markets. […]
Read more »On Tap(i): Turkmenistan Seeks Path To Revive Key Gas Pipeline To India
April 26th, 2021
Via Upstream Online, a report on Turkmenistan’s recent agreements with Afghanistan to avoid potential attacks on pipeline builders after holding previous meeting with Taliban: Authorities in Turkmenistan are breathing new life into a gas export pipeline project that went cold last year as countries in the region battled the coronavirus pandemic. The TAPI project aims to […]
Read more »China-Iran Pact Boosts Pakistan’s Trade Hub Dream
April 19th, 2021
Via The Asia Times, a report on how Islamabad’s rhetorical shift to all things ‘geo-economic’ has been influenced by China’s $400 billion plan for neighbouring Iran: When China and Iran recently announced their landmark 25-year economic and security agreement, Pakistan’s military leadership was coincidently touting its new “geo-economic vision” for more infrastructure development and integration in […]
Read more »Pakistan Takes Desperate Measures To Revive Gwadar
April 18th, 2021
Via Nikkei Asia, a report on Pakistan’s increasingly desperate measures to revive the Belt and Road’s Gwadar port: Pakistan’s federal and regional governments are taking a series of actions, including giving the status of regional subcapital and promoting tourism, to revive the struggling town of Gwadar, whose port — built and operated by the Chinese — […]
Read more »Pakistan’s Geoeconomic Dreams
April 8th, 2021
Via Foreign Policy, an article on Pakistan’s geoeconomic dreams/delusions: In recent weeks, senior Pakistani officials, including the country’s powerful army chief, have signaled or outright said that, from now on, their country’s foreign policy will emphasize geoeconomics. This is a welcome rhetorical shift. Decades of bartering Pakistan’s geostrategic value—including as a “front-line state” in the Cold War and […]
Read more »The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Hard Reality Greets BRI’s Signature Initiative
April 5th, 2021
Via the Council on Foreign Relations, an article on how China’s Belt and Road Initiative’s flagship project in Pakistan is struggling to fulfill China’s hopes: During an April 2015 visit to Islamabad, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif unveiled the $46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the Belt and Road Initiative’s (BRI) flagship […]
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