This Day in History: China and Pakistan Agree to Develop ‘Economic Corridor’
On May 22, 2013, during the visit of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to Islamabad, China and Pakistan agree to develop an “economic corridor.” Li arrived in Islamabad after a trip to New Delhi, where he had discussed the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar economic corridor.
Weekly Newsletter: Issue 4 (May 21, 2018)
This is a review of CPEC and CPEC-related news and analysis for the week of May 14-20, 2018.
Weekly Newsletter: Issue 3 (May 14, 2018)
This is a review of CPEC and CPEC-related news and analysis for the week of May 7-13, 2018.
This Day in History: China Agrees to Finance Gwadar Port Development
On May 12, 2001, during a state visit to Pakistan, Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji agrees to finance the first phase of the construction of the Gwadar port and the Makran Coastal Highway that connects Gwadar to Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city.
Weekly Newsletter: Issue 2 (May 7, 2018)
This is a review of CPEC and CPEC-related news and analysis for the week of April 30 - May 6, 2018.
Weekly Newsletter: Issue 1 (April 30, 2018)
This is a review of CPEC and CPEC-related news and analysis for the week of April 23-29, 2018.
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Three Years Later
An assessment of CPEC's progress roughly three years after its formal inauguration.
China’s $62 Billion Bet on Pakistan
When Maqbool Afridi, now a retired colonel, was stationed with the Pakistani army in Gwadar in the 1990s, he would sit along the coast and stare into the expanse of the Arabian Sea, imagining what the natural deep-sea port could...
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Barriers and Impact
This is the first comprehensive public study of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.