US on CPEC

Published October 13, 2017

THE China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is the flagship project of China’s One-Belt One Road plan and a game changer for Pakistan. However, from the outset this project has given acute indigestion to India and the United States.

The latter has used every trick to contain China and sustain its superpower status.The US intentions are further strengthened by the recent comments of the US Defence Secretary that the CPEC project is passing through disputed territory.

America’s rivalry with China is routinely discussed by analysts who have termed it dangerous for world peace. I remember reading an article on this same issue in Dawn in July 2016 by Mr Munir Akram, titled ‘Thucydides Trap.’

The Thucydides Trap is a theory which predicts ‘sure war’ between existing and emerging superpowers. America has also been silent for a long time over the Indian forces’ brutal atrocities in occupied Kashmir.

Natees Altaf

Hala New

Published in Dawn, October 13th, 2017

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