LONDON: The Free Balochistan Movement has announced to organise a two-day protest against the official global launch of the international port city Gwadar by ‘One Investments’ on 27 & 28 January in London. The ‘One Investments’ is trying to lure investors to “securely invest with China’s 4th Largest Construction Company” in Gwadar Balochistan. The Free […]Read More
China’s plan for a modern Silk Road of railways, ports and other facilities linking Asia with Europe hit a $14 billion pothole in Pakistan. Pakistan’s relations with Beijing are so close that officials call China their “Iron Brother.” Despite that, plans for the Diamer-Bhasha Dam were thrown into turmoil in November when the chairman of […]Read More
By Harrison Akins Graduate Research Fellow Howard, H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, University of Tennessee In 1962, Henry Kissinger, then serving as a consultant for the National Security Council, was dispatched by President Kennedy on a fact finding mission to Pakistan, a Cold War ally. During his visit, a reporter probed him for […]Read More
Beijing plans to build its second offshore naval base near a strategically important Pakistani port following the opening of its first facility in Djibouti on the Horn of Africa last year. Beijing-based military analyst Zhou Chenming said the base near the Gwadar port on the Arabian Sea would be used to dock and maintain naval […]Read More
By F.M. SHAKIL Blame it on political chaos, corruption or a deteriorating law and order situation in Pakistan. Whatever the cause, Chinese enthusiasm for the multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is waning and Beijing has taken several road, mass-transit and industrial zone projects off the table, either temporarily or permanently. Two road projects that have […]Read More
By Lawrence Sellin Retired Colonel, U.S. Army Reserve According to a December 12, 2017 Urdu-language news site report, during a high-level meeting presumably between Chinese and Pakistani officials held on the last day of the November Chinese Economic Summit in Hong Kong, China offered to train Pakistani security forces to protect both the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor […]Read More
By Girish Shetti China is set to increase the number of its marine corps at oversees ports in a bid to protect its strategic assets in foreign locations. The decision comes amid reports that the Chinese government is pushing very hard to strengthen its naval force. The Public Liberation Army (PLA) reportedly plans to double […]Read More
By Serajul Quadir | DHAKA BW New Web monitor: A protest against a $2.4-billion Chinese-backed power plant in Bangladesh turned violent, killing one person and injuring about a dozen, risking delay to a project seen as a symbol of warming ties between the two nations. The coal-fired plant being built 265 km (165 miles) south-east […]Read More
BW New Web Monitor: China has handed over two ships to the Pakistan Navy to safeguard the strategic Gwadar port and trade routes under the $ 46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, a move likely to raise alarm in India.China handed over the two ships to the Pakistan Navy on Saturday for joint security along the […]Read More
(BW News Web Desk) Several people have been injured in southern Sri Lanka during a protest against allowing China to build a port and industrial zone. The plan envisages the eviction of thousands of villagers around Hambantota port, 240km (150 miles) south-east of the capital Colombo. Police used tear gas as the protest delayed a […]Read More
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