Sino-Pakistan Energy Corridor: Geopolitical and Geo-economic Thoughts
Qin Yonghong
The Construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt has extraordinary significance to optimizing China’s diplomatic strategy and economic structure as well as reasonably tapping resources in the EurasianContinent. As an important component of the unfurling strategy, the Sino-Pakistan Energy Corridor is of great importance to stabilizing China’s Xinjiang Autonomous Region and Pakistan itself and promoting the regional economic development as a whole. China has reasons to push forward the implementation of the ambitious plan despite obvious difficulties.
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