amoy
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Back to sobriety India won't open for Chinese large-scale investment in infra. Meantime pragmatic Chinese have taken the side -
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2014-02/19/content_17292817_4.htm
During the visit of Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain Chinese have committed to the "economic corridor" with the all-weather ally. Additionally Chinese will invest in Gwadar Airport.
Pakistan president discusses economy in China | World, News, The Philippine Star | philstar.com
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2014-02/19/content_17292817_4.htm
During the visit of Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain Chinese have committed to the "economic corridor" with the all-weather ally. Additionally Chinese will invest in Gwadar Airport.
Pakistan president discusses economy in China | World, News, The Philippine Star | philstar.com
It's delusional Chinese can sit on the fence in a zero sum game with India.The planned economic corridor will incorporate a 2,000-kilometer (1,200-mile) transport link connecting Kashgar in northwestern China to the little-used Pakistani port of Gwadar on the Arabian Sea near the border with Iran. That could at some point include a railway and oil pipeline.
The project received a major boost when control of Gwadar was transferred to China's state-owned China Overseas Ports Holding Co. Ltd. in February 2013. Built by Chinese workers and opened in 2007, Gwadar is undergoing a major expansion to turn it into a full-fledged, deep-water commercial port.
One of the agreements signed yesterday was a preliminary accord for constructing an international airport at Gwadar. Another was for upgrading a section of the 1,300-kilometer (800-mile) Karakorum Highway connecting to Islamabad.
The sides last year already agreed to build a fiber-optic cable to be laid from the Chinese border to the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi which will boost Pakistan's access to international communications networks. China is to provide 85 percent of the financing for the three-year project's $44 million budget, with Pakistan covering the rest.
If the corridor project takes off, oil from the Middle East could be offloaded at Gwadar, which is located just outside the mouth of the Persian Gulf, and transported to China through the lawless Baluchistan province in Pakistan and over the towering Karakoram mountains. Such a link would vastly cut the 12,000-kilometer (7,500-mile) route that Mideast oil supplies must now take to reach Chinese ports.
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