364: China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
Sajjad Ashraf, Consultant at ISAS
9 April 2015
Pakistan's National Assembly, the Lower House of Parliament, has given post
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facto approval
for a major project that has come to be known as China
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Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
The addition of CPEC to the China
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Pakistan agenda blends with Beijing's Sil
k Road
initiative that is designed to connect China, through a series of infrastructure projects, with
Central and South Asia and even the eastern edges of the Persian Gulf region