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The importance of Gwadar

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Gwadar Port is already one of the largest projects of China’s foreign aid. Its "gold content" has gone beyond ordinary economic significance and has very important political significance, diplomatic significance, and international influence. Despite all kinds of natural and political factors, Gwadar still seems to be a testing ground for China’s idea of economic development to radicalize religious extremism. This is also a point that many investors value or worry about. The Gwadar population has now grown to over 85,000. According to the long-term planning of Gwadar as one of the global trade centers, Gwadar will not only continue to expand the port but also build airports and free trade zones.  It not only has a large-scale industrial chain of warehousing, logistics and processing and manufacturing. Clusters, together with China, Pakistan, and other countries, have entered the financial and insurance industry and will have a correspondingly large number of living...

Vision and Worries

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This vision has brought challenges to some countries in the Middle East and the Indian Ocean, which are currently important trading ports: India, Iran, UAE and others are all considering how the emergence of a strong Gwadar port will shape the existing international port status of these countries. Business challenge. Geopolitical considerations naturally also fall short: Supporters of conspiracy theories have discussed how China and the United States will maintain their energy supply in the event of a military conflict and the closure of the Malacca Strait. Or the "great strategy" of China's west to Gwadar port and east to Burma's Sittwe Port to India. Image caption China and Pakistan have very close relations with the government. Businessmen also hope to take advantage of this. If the natural environment can be reconstructed and the long-term perspective is still insufficient, security and security are the immediate needs of China and Pakistan. Since ...

One Belt and One Road

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In 2014, China and Pakistan proposed to promote the China-Pakistan economic corridor project under the “One Belt and One Road” strategy and build a trade corridor from Kashgar, Xinjiang to Gwadar, Pakistan, including roads, railways, oil and gas energy, fiber optic cable communications, agriculture, and seaports. Integrated infrastructure projects in the field. The expansion of Gwadar Port is this harbor project. Gwadar was originally a small fishing village with a desert Gobi and a few thousand people adjoining the Arabian Sea. The land is sparsely populated, the economy is lagging behind, and the wind and sand are hot. “The old and the young are poor,” lack of water and electricity, and local separatism was once categorized. Oman. However, the eye-catching Pakistani strategist discovered the huge "gold content" of Gwadar and redeemed it from Oman in 1958 and built a small port. Although the port is small, it is at the forefront: Gwadar Port is close to the Iranian...