CPEC: The Missing Chapter between China & Pakistan

Abstract

The paper investigates Sino-Pak relations and focusing on the missing chapter of economic relation between Beijing and Islamabad. It explains that how the two neighbors came close to each other and cleared their demarcation of international borders in their first phase of relations. The study categorizes their relations from diplomatic to political and from political to strategic that lasted in their missing chapter of economic relations under the CPEC that currently dominated the relations of two “Iron Brothers”. This part of study indicates a shift in the Beijing’s policies towards Islamabad from a political oriented to economic oriented when Deng Zhao Ping came to power in 1978 and set economic as the top priority of the nation. The study concludes that despite the shift in Beijing foreign policy from political to economic oriented, Islamabad has not comprehended nor deal the project of CPEC with the lens of economic oriented policy.