Abstract
This chapter examines the ‘flagship’ network of energy production-transmission-and-distribution, transport-and-communications, industrial and agricultural, and infrastructure and connectivity projects announced by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and President Xi Jinping during consecutive visits to Pakistan, and revised upwards since then. While proponents eulogise its transformative effect on Pakistan’s economic and state-building prospects, critics underscore its allegedly hidden objectives, its challenges and uncertain future. The chapter analyses CPEC’s domestic, bilateral, regional and systemic ramifications and illuminates a complex combination of positive and negative outcomes characterising such potentially transmogrifying visions, both for Pakistan and Sino-Pakistani relations, and for the South Asian regional sub-system, and the wider system itself.
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Notes
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Qamar (2017).
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Xi (2017).
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Report (2017a).
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Khan (2018a).
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Malik (2019) and Deloitte (undated).
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Mu (2019).
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Fan (2019).
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Bhatti and Liu (2018).
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Iqbal (2017).
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EIU (2019).
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Xinhua (2017).
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Iqbal (2017).
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For more information, you can find the ‘CPEC Highway Network Map’ here: http://www.cpec.gov.pk/map-single/1 (last accessed October 16th, 2019).
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For more information, you can find the ‘CPEC Highway Network Map’ here: http://www.cpec.gov.pk/map-single/1 (last accessed October 16th, 2019).
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For more information, you can find the ‘CPEC Fibre Optic Project Map’ here: http://www.cpec.gov.pk/map-single/3 (last accessed October 16th, 2019).
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Ali, S. (2020). Case Study 1: The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor. In: China’s Belt and Road Vision. Global Power Shift. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36244-7_5
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