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China Moves Centre Stage in Korean Peninsula Peace Efforts
China Moves Centre Stage in Korean Peninsula Peace Efforts
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Opportunities and Risks
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Opportunities and Risks
Table of Contents
  1. Executive Summary
  2. Introduction
  3. The Beijing Connection
    1. Balancing Geopolitics and Economics
    2. The Jihadist Factor
    3. Security Challenges for Chinese Nationals and Projects
  4. Demystifying CPEC
    1. A Conceptual Leap?
    2. Power Production and Debt
    3. Special Economic Zones and Industrial Cooperation
  5. CPEC: End to End
    1. Strains on the Federation
    2. CPEC’s Exit Point: Gilgit-Baltistan
    3. CPEC’s Entry Point: Gwadar
      1. Developing Gwadar
      2. Leaving Gwadar’s Communities Behind
      3. Gwadar and the Baloch Insurgency
  6. Punjab and Sindh: Land Grab in the Heartland?
    1. Agricultural Cooperation: Punjab’s Challenges
    2. CPEC and Sindh’s Tharparkar District
  7. Conclusion
  8. Appendix A: Map of CPEC Special Economic Zones
  9. Appendix B: Acronyms
The front pages of Chinese evening newspapers, showing images of China's President Xi Jinping with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, are displayed at a newspaper stand in Beijing on March 28, 2018. Fred DUFOUR / AFP
Commentary / Asia

China Moves Centre Stage in Korean Peninsula Peace Efforts

After weeks in which other actors have taken notable steps towards defusing fears of war over North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile program, a China-North Korea summit held 26-27 March in Beijing has reasserted China’s pivotal role in efforts to find a solution to the nuclear crisis.