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With implementation of CPEC, China will determine Pakistan’s relations with India

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Kolkata, June 11  (newsin.asia): Columbia and Karachi university political economist S Akbar Zaidi has said that one of the “dangerous consequences” of the Chinese-funded China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is that Pakistan’s foreign policy, especially in regard to India, will be determined by China as per its interests

“Pakistan’s obsession with China and CPEC will prevent any rapprochement between India and Pakistan unless the Chinese themselves initiate such a process and that they would do only if that fits into their grand design in the region,” BDNews24 quotes Zaidi as saying in Kolkata on Friday.

“But many Pakistanis, especially the young lot, appear keen on friendship with India.  There is great demand of Indian entertainment content in Pakistan, but possibly cricket can play the most important role. Indo-Pak relations significantly improved following India’s tour of Pakistan in 2003, but that changed after the 2008 Mumbai attack. Even at this juncture, resumption of Indo-Pak cricket series can be the best starting point,” he said.

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“ With China taking over Pakistan, providing it with undisclosed amount of investments, any argument of increasing trade and economic cooperation between India and Pakistan lose out completely. Pakistan will become a colony of China once the CPEC corridor is implemented,” Zaidi said.

He was giving a lecture entitled: “Has China taken over Pakistan?” at a Kolkata think tank.

” CPEC is indeed a game changer, but not in the way our ruling classes have projected it to be. It will enslave Pakistan and undermine its sovereignty,” Zaidi said.

“It is a part of China’s OBOR initiative to expand its influence in the world and Pakistan is just the geographical space used by Beijing to reach the warm waters of the Persian Gulf. But in the process, Beijing blueprint will ensure complete control over Pakistan.”

Zaidi quoted Senator Tahir Mashhadi, chairman of the standing committee on planning and development, who had described the CPEC corridor as the advent of “another East India Company is in the offing.”

Zaidi’s many books, especially “Military Civil Society and democratisation in Pakistan” and ” Issues in Pakistan’s Economy”, have won him acclaim on the world stage.

The Pakistani scholar blamed the Pakistani ruling classes for leading the country down the path of enslavement.

“Our ruling classes, especially the military, have first lived with the influence of US imperialism, then allowed unusual degree of Saudi intrusion in domestic, cultural and social affairs. Now they have prostrated themselves before Chinese imperial designs. Pakistan will temporarily gain from Chinese investment in infrastructure and connectivity, and some jobs may be created, and we may gain in power generation.”

“But we should not forget how Chinese investments turned sour in Sri Lanka, Tajikistan and several parts of Africa. In both Sri Lanka and Tajikistan, with rising costs and debts , large swathes of land had to be handed over to the Chinese to make up for unpaid funds. There are good reasons to fear that Pakistan could be reduced to being a vassal state, ” he said.

Pakistan should learn from the way Bangladesh has dealt with the Chinese, Zaidi said and added: ““Bangladesh accepts Chinese investments but on its own terms. They insist that Chinese companies should adhere to environmental norms which they are so prone to flout. Bangladesh has also not accepted Chinese conditions like deployment of its own labor force which Pakistan failed to resist.”

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According to Zaidi, the Pakistan government has not clarified what will the CPEC cost now and in years to come.

“Whatever little we have learnt is from media leaks. Islamabad will reportedly award contracts for all CPEC projects to the Chinese, who may or may not partner with local firms, and may or may not, procure material from local manufacturers. They will get special incentives, not available to local Pakistani firms.  It is also not clear what will happen to the tens of thousands of people displaced by the CPEC projects.”

Zaidi described Pakistan as a majoritarian Punjabi driven country with a strong military presence in decision making.

“That means the views of other ethnicities who will be affected by the CPEC corridor will not be taken into account,” he said.

“Can you believe we now have a Chinese language paper in Islamabad with 5000 readers,” he quipped.

Nepali editor Kanak Mani Dixit, who also spoke, accepted the fears raised by the Pakistani academic. Dixit however said that the Indian economic blockades had driven Nepal closer to China.

He alleged that Pushpa Kamal Dahal in his last days as Prime Minister had gifted away the contract for the largest hydroelectric project in Nepal to the Chinese without any bidding.

“Nepal should resist such lack of transparency at all costs. We need to learn how to deal with the Chinese. When there is an Indian blockade, I can write in Indian media and hit out hard and my articles are carried. Can I do that in Chinese media if their government does something against Nepal?” he wondered.

(The featured picture at the top is that of Pof.S.Akbar Zaidi)

 

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