China About to Start $35B of Silk Road Plan in Pakistan
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Re: China About to Start $35B of Silk Road Plan in Pakistan
#2The Karakoram Highway, between Pakistan and China, is an amazing engineering achievement.
The cartoonist and author Ted Rall has visited Central Asia many times.
Re: China About to Start $35B of Silk Road Plan in Pakistan
#3China must be laughing right now. While Trump cancels TPP, and stops the pivot to Asia, makes America isolationist again, China is busy expanding, building networks, and taking over. Hopefully 4 years isn't enough to make a lasting shift.
Re: China About to Start $35B of Silk Road Plan in Pakistan
#4The Karakoram Highway, between Pakistan and China, is an amazing engineering achievement. The cartoonist and author Ted Rall has visited Central Asia many times. http://rall.com/2009/06/04/the-karakoram-highway
That's a great article - it'd be interesting to know if the KKH has changed much in the intervening 17 years.
Re: China About to Start $35B of Silk Road Plan in Pakistan
#5I'm not sure why the bottom comment is marked "dead", but it seems prescient to me. Isolationism is exactly what China wants the US to do.
Re: China About to Start $35B of Silk Road Plan in Pakistan
#6The Karakoram Highway, between Pakistan and China, is an amazing engineering achievement. The cartoonist and author Ted Rall has visited Central Asia many times. http://rall.com/2009/06/04/the-karakoram-highway
Most of the article is biased reflections of the author.
Re: China About to Start $35B of Silk Road Plan in Pakistan
#7The Karakoram Highway, between Pakistan and China, is an amazing engineering achievement. The cartoonist and author Ted Rall has visited Central Asia many times. http://rall.com/2009/06/04/the-karakoram-highway
Great read. Thanks for sharing.
Re: China About to Start $35B of Silk Road Plan in Pakistan
#8The Karakoram Highway, between Pakistan and China, is an amazing engineering achievement. The cartoonist and author Ted Rall has visited Central Asia many times. http://rall.com/2009/06/04/the-karakoram-highway
That's a great article - it'd be interesting to know if the KKH has changed much in the intervening 17 years.
It's still just as mad. I went up to the Pakistan-China border last year.
Re: China About to Start $35B of Silk Road Plan in Pakistan
#9The Karakoram Highway, between Pakistan and China, is an amazing engineering achievement. The cartoonist and author Ted Rall has visited Central Asia many times. http://rall.com/2009/06/04/the-karakoram-highway
That's a great article - it'd be interesting to know if the KKH has changed much in the intervening 17 years.
Apparently there are still bad sections, but more of the highway has been upgraded.[1] China is providing most of the money. In 2010, a major earthquake caused landslides which created a new lake, taking out part of the highway. It took until 2015 to build a new route with 5Km of tunnels.
Here's a partial list of projects being funded in Pakistan by China.[2] China's government seems determined to get a land linkup to Europe. Yet this isn't the main "New Silk Road" route - that's further north, through Iran and Iraq.[3] With all the wars in that area, China apparently sees a need to have multiple alternate routes for trade. Good thinking in Beijing.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_of_the_Karakora... [2] http://boi.gov.pk/userfiles1/file/List%20of%20MoUs.docx [3] http://www.xinhuanet.com/silkroad/english/index.htm
Re: China About to Start $35B of Silk Road Plan in Pakistan
#10I'm not sure why the bottom comment is marked "dead", but it seems prescient to me. Isolationism is exactly what China wants the US to do.
Being off topic probably had more to do with it. Personally, I'm happy to see that the first comment is related to the story and not the predictable China bashing.