by Sutirtho Patranobis in Hindustan Times, June 21, 2017 Beijing: The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will be connected to a corridor that involves India, Bangladesh and Myanmar through the sea, Beijing announced on Tuesday in its continuing efforts to bring Asia and Europe under President Xi Jinping’s multi-million dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Part of the plan is to link the South China Sea to the Indian Ocean, according to the “Vision for Maritime…
Posts published in June 2017
by Wendy Wu in South China Morning Post, June 20, 2017 Connectivity is seen as a good thing for nations, but sometimes achieving it can be far more difficult and complex than expected, even for close allies, as Pakistan’s latest anti-dumping ruling against Chinese steel products shows. Islamabad’s latest ruling against China – its “all-weather friend”, according to the official rhetoric – may fuel scepticism about China’s massive “Belt and Road” globalisation initiative. If China…
By Syed Irfan Raza in Dawn, June 20th, 2017 ISLAMABAD: The National Highways and Motorway Police (NH&MP) has expressed its inability to police the length of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) with the existing force and resources at its disposal. The department revealed that it had insufficient manpower and resources to do the job during a meeting of National Assembly Standing Committee on Communication, held at the NH&MP office in Sector G-13, on Monday. The…
by Syed Ali Shah in Dawn, June 20th, 2017 Islambad: Two Navy sailors were martyred and at least three others were wounded when their vehicle was attacked in the Jiwani area of Gwadar district, Balochistan on Monday. The sailors were transporting iftar items during a routine run from Jiwani city when their vehicle was ambushed by four assailants on two motorbikes, a senior local administration official told DawnNews. The assailants opened fire on the vehicle…
Reuters report in South China Morning Post, June 20, 2017 The number of rich people in China has risen nearly nine times in a decade, a private survey released on Tuesday showed, as strong growth in the world’s second-largest economy spurred wealth creation. Chinese with at least 10 million yuan (US$1.47 million) of investable assets hit 1.6 million in 2016, up from 180,000 in 2006, according to the 2017 China Private Wealth Report by Bain…
Comment in Global Times, June 20,2017 Monday’s deadly attack near a London mosque has sparked discussions on Islamophobia in China, with experts on ethnicity and religion calling for vigilance against those who stoke hatred towards Muslims, as the public feels strongly about terror attacks linked to Islamic extremism and separatism. The attack in London has killed at least one and injured 10 others after a man drove a van into worshippers near a London mosque…
by Manik Miazee in Dhaka Tribune, June 19, 2017 at 08:57 PM BNP Standing Committee member and former commerce minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury speaks to the Dhaka Tribune’s Manik Miazee about his party’s strategy for the next general election and its ‘Vision 2030’ development plan for Bangladesh that Khosru helped design. What are the differences between Vision 2030 and the BNP’s election manifesto? Vision 2030 is not our election manifesto. It is our vision…
Bilkis Irani in Dhaka Tribune, June 18, 2017 at 09:04 PM BNP has demanded the next general election be held under the 1984 delimitation as such a move ensures a level playing field for all partiesDhaka Tribune The BNP standing committee member said that no objection was raised about the 1984 delimitation in 2008, but the 1/11 government changed it for unknown reasons. BNP has demanded the next general election follow the parliamentary constituency delimitation…
New evidence has surfaced about the abduction and reported murder of two Chinese nationals by the militant Islamic State (IS) group in Quetta.The Interior Ministry has cancelled the visa of a South Korean national who it had earlier linked to the abduction incident. Reports have surfaced that the Chinese national had gone to Quetta and were engaged in preaching under the garb of learning Urdu from a Korean national, Juan Won Seo, owner of ARK…
by Frank Tang in South China Morning Post, June 17, 11:31pm The United States is paying close attention to China’s fast rising level of debt, housing bubble and the build-up of risk in the financial system as any stumble by the world’s second largest economy would bring a chain reaction globally, according to Kathryn Dominguez, an economics professor at the University of Michigan nominated by former president Barack Obama to be a governor in the…
Xinhua report in The Global Times, June 17, 2017 at 14:27:52 A regional airport will soon be built in Yutian, a remote county in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, authorities said Saturday. The 710-million yuan (104 million US dollars) civil airport is designed to handle an annual throughput of 180,000 passengers and 400 tonnes of cargo. Annual take-offs and landings will total 2,143, the regional development and reform commission said in a press release.…