So, if you look at this historically, because the Balochistan issue has been ongoing for decades, at least, then China’s more recent investment and presence in Gawdar (Balochistan) can, in fact, be interpreted as an intervention, or at least, an interposition into an pre-existing conflict. It would seem that the Chinese leadership had considered the risks and found them acceptable.Yes it does and Chinese leadership is also aware of it.
What Pakistan also have, is weak and soft leaders when dealing with terrorism. I remember that in the past (before 2010?), Pakistan had dealt with the terrorists but after that they got soft and they are now letting terrorism and extremism to run amok
@plawolf I agree that this is what the enemy is looking for. But that doesn't mean that China can forever paper over Pakistani failures on its intelligence apparatus. What are the Chinese leaders going to say to the domestic audience if Chinese keep getting killed in Pakistan?
Yes the CPC can cover a lot of things for strategic goals but Pakistan doesn't exactly inspire confidence if it cant deal with internal security issues.
Today is a car, tommorow is a coal station or a dam, or a railway or mass killings. CPEC clearly cant go on like that if sabotage starts seriously happening.
Hopefully after the Americans withdraw, Pakistan will set up a buffer zone on the Afghan side of its border and finally start clearing out these terrorists
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