China's overland Silk Road and Maritime Silk Road Thread
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Economic Zones Development & Management Company's first official video.
To facilitate focused industrial growth, by developing modern industrial estates, leading to mass job creation, skill enhancement, increased productivity, contributing to the GDP, aiming to reduce poverty and gearing towards a prosperous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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Looks like the SCO will add India and Pakistan this year and make BRI a centerpiece of the organization. I think it also should reconsider US application for observer status, because the group loses nothing by engaging US and could even build some goodwill.
China’s efforts to expand its influence will reap rewards today at a two-day meeting in Kazakhstan attended by Xi Jinping, as well as fellow leaders Vladimir Putin of Russia, India’s Narendra Modi and Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan. Pakistan and India will join the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, founded in 2001 chiefly to combat the “three evils” of extremism, terrorism and separatism (and an unspoken fourth, Western influence). As China happily points out, the enlarged, eight-member SCO will cover three-fifths of the Eurasian landmass and nearly half of the world’s population. All member states are supposedly equal, but China, where the SCO was founded, is central to it. Mr Xi wants the SCO to promote his “belt and road” initiative of infrastructure spending across Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa. But India and Pakistan are a quarrelsome couple. The new members may make it hard to agree on anything important.
I disagree on adding the US as an observer as it would be bad for the SCO and bad for the globe spanning BRI.
Everyone in the current group recognises that they are neighbours and that they have to get on with each other to solve common challenges in the realms of economics, infrastructure, politics, terrorism and security.
In comparison, the US is not relevant in terms of economics or geography. So it would mostly use its SCO participation for its own interests, not those of the overall SCO. Eg. To isolate China, to isolate Russia, prevent China-Russia-India linking up, etc
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:1320 MW Hub Coal Power Plant under construction in Hub district, .
The power plant, being constructed under CPEC with an estimated cost of $2 billion, will contribute 9 billion kWh of cheaper electricity annually into the national grid.
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and hold talks on the sidelines of the SCO Summit to strengthen Multifaceted Cooperation in Economy, Energy and Trade....