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Architect of a Better World DiploMagSpecial Edition Politics First, a non-partisan H O F T E F Y O U R N A D S I R N E G V I O N F N T A H H E T 0 P 7 E O A P L N I E ' H S C R F E O P U C I B L Xi Jinping – NAB Activism Exclusive Interview Architect of a Detrimental with Ambassador Better World to CPEC Yao Jing Editor’s Note Happy China at 70! The special occasion merits a detailed analysis of the phenomenal rise of China, globally and regionally. Editor We are happy to announce that the special edition of Mian Abrar DiploMag, in your hands, is dedicated to the 70th Anni- CEO Assistant Editor versary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Sadia Khan Shamim Mehmood DiploMag is Pakistan’s top magazine covering the Associate Editor Managing Editor diplomatic affairs. This edition contains exclusive material Ahsan Raza Malik Nadeem Akhter Janjua regarding China-Pakistan friendly relations. In other Editor Coordination Editor Asia Pacific words, DiploMag is the only magazine in Pakistan that is Maimoona Zainab Kazmi Bilal Sabri producing exclusive content on China and its core interests, especially Belt and Road Initiative, China-Pakistan Editor Europe Special Correspondent Economic Corridor, One-China Policy, Chinese diplomacy Shah Nawaz Mohal Farid Sabri and foreign affairs and China’s booming economy, etc. Advisor Marketing Head of Marketing The 70 years have been an unprecedented success story Syed Ali Nawaz Gilani Mudasser Chaudhary for China. Since its foundation, China has come a long way – moving from a developing nation to the world’s second- Marketing Executive Creative Head biggest economy and on its way to overtake the top position Mohammed Shafique Gujjar Maqsood Arif among top economic giants of the world. Web Editor Web Developer In the ongoing China-US trade war, DiploMag has Muhammad Aitzaz Arsalan Kyani generated its exclusive content to analyse the economic conflict and its impact on the world economy. We have also stationed our Asia Pacific Editor, Mr Bilal Sabri, in Beijing Head office to exclusively report on China’s foreign policy initiatives and the daily coverage of China’s MOFA spokespersons is Office No-14, 1st Floor, Aaly Plaza, 44-West, being projected. Fazal-ul-Haq Road, Blue Area, Islamabad. We hope that you would find this issue satisfying to Contact Us your interest. We welcome your input and feedback and Phone: +92-51-2342500 would try to address according to your valuable feedback Email: [email protected] www.diplo-mag.com in our editorial content accordingly. Follow Us @MagDiplo @DiploMag +92-311-5968889 Price: Rs500 1 OCTOBER 2019 This Month 04 18 BRI set to revolutionise world China working for lasting peace, universal economy security, common prosperity of world Sadia Khan Ambassador Yao Jing Masooma Fatima 08 CPC – Real force behind 24 China’s rise Curbs on Muslims in China: Farid Sabri Fact or Fiction? Mian Abrar 13 Xi Jinping – Architect of a 28 better world Balochistan: Troubled heart of CPEC heals Mian Abrar Sadia Khan 16 Protest pattern suggests foreign 32 intervention in Hong Kong riots Unprecedented development Bilal Sabri opportunities await Pakistan Cheng Xizhong 2 36 52 CPEC’s best yet to come in new phase: Rail Track Upgradation to Materialise Mushahid Hussain Sayed Transregional Trade Hamid Khan Wazir Ahsan Raza Malik 39 56 Suki Kinari Project: Adding CPEC to transform Balochistan into prosper- power to peoples’ lives ous, vibrant region: Bayazeed Kasi Mian Zawar Hussain Farooq Azam Awan 42 NAB activism detrimental 59 to CPEC Authority to fast-track CPEC projects Mir Sahtak Ahmadani Izbal Baloch 46 60 Iron Brothers all set to ink Hainan: Paradise on earth FTA-II, Pakisani exports to go up Bilal Sabri Ghulam Abbas CONTENT 49 Making CPEC first drug-free route of the region: Shehryar Khan Afridi Shamim Mehmood 3 BRI Set to Revoluti onise World Economy As Belt & Road Initiative turned 6 this October, the initiative is likely to boost world GDP by $ 7.1 trillion annually within next two decades; the global gross domestic product would raise by 4.2 percent by year 2040 Sadia Khan s the world’s unique but mega investment infrastructure and transport initiative – Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – turns six this October, it has already brought a revolutionary transformation in over 165 countries and organisations. Belt and Road Initiative is likely to boost world GDP by $7.1 trillion annually within the next two decades, Ainvolving up to $8 trillion of spending over the next quarter century via global infrastructure and other related projects, according to the latest figures from a major economics report. The initiative is likely to raise global gross domestic product by about 4.2 percent in 2040, or 8.3 percent of GDP this year, with up to 56 countries forecast to have their annual GDP in 2040 boosted by more than $10 billion as a result, the report from the London-based Center for Economics and Business Research consultancy showed. It was October 2013 when China’s visionary President Xi Jinping launched the BRI aimed at building infrastructure and improving transport connectivity in more than 60 countries across Asia and beyond. Centuries ago, lucrative silk trade was carried out by caravans across sun-scorched deserts between the two ends of the Eurasian continent. Another merchant route was established on sea, linking China, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and finally Europe and Africa. Traders and explorers traveled back and forth along the land and sea routes, facilitating commerce and contact between East and West. History has left more than just the paths. Inspired by the legacy of these historical commercial routes, in 2013, China proposed the BRI, an initiative which comprises the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century 4 Maritime Silk Road. Over the past six years, the joint BRI Set to Revoluti onise construction with participating countries has not only brought remarkable progress to regions along the routes, but also helped speed up global cooperation. To date, China has signed BRI agreements with around 138 countries. However, while memorandums of understanding between Beijing and BRI countries World Economy have ramped up — with 62 deals being signed with It was October 2013 when China’s vision- new partner countries from June 2018 to June 2019. ary President Xi Jinping launched the The same was reflected by Xi Jinping who told BRI aimed at building infrastructure the participants of the Second Belt and Road Forum and improving transport connectivity in for International Cooperation in April this year. more than 60 countries across Asia and “We shared the view that cooperation under the beyond. Centuries ago, lucrative silk trade BRI has opened a gateway to opportunities for common prosperity,” Xi said, adding that was carried out by caravans across sun- the joint Belt and Road construction is scorched deserts between the two ends benefiting a bigger population and has of the Eurasian continent been welcomed by more countries. The BRI is largely a brand- ing strategy for not-for-profit construction that pre-dates the 2013 announcement. In general, energy projects have made up the bulk of BRI-related construc- tion and invest- 5 ment abroad. Apart from energy, China has prioritized BRI-related largest economy and which will therefore benefit from any boost construction projects in the transportation sector and investment to the world economy, the “biggest single potential beneficiary” in commodities. This fits with China’s longstanding ambitions of the initiative “is likely to be the US, even though it isn’t par- to secure its energy supply, and improve connectivity for com- ticipating directly in the project. This is because of the sheer size modities trade and transport links abroad. Laying out some of of the US economy, which means that it gains from the indirect the most detailed benefits of the BRI so far, the center’s 40-page effects of world GDP being boosted,” says the report. report, “From Silk Road to Silicon Road: How the Belt and Road “So bizarrely, despite the opposition of at least the Trump Initiative will Transform the Global Economy”, was written for administration, the United States is positioned, potentially, to be the Chartered Institute of Building worldwide professional body the second-biggest beneficiary of the Belt and Road Initiative,” representing construction and property professionals. CEBR Founder and Deputy Chairman Douglas McWilliams told The BRI “is the most ambitious and largest infrastructure media. Amid a “rebalancing of global power”, McWilliams said project arguably in history and will eventually touch more than he would expect the US to “come to terms” with the impact and two-thirds of the world’s population across some 65 or more success of the BRI and “may eventually want to participate in it”. countries. Its impact and effect will be felt for generations”, the The regions that will most be transformed by the initiative institute’s president, Chris Soffe, wrote in the report. “Although are likely to be Central Asia and Russia, where GDP in 2040 currently the BRI has about $2 trillion of projects already on is forecast to be 18 percent higher, and likely to be boosted in the drawing board, we believe that as it succeeds it will expand Central Europe (6 percent), Western Europe (5 percent) and East to encompass many other projects,” reported the center, which Asia (5 percent), according to the report. The largest proportional analyzed the economic impact of transport and infrastructure, impacts are expected to be in Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan and Russia, as well as trade frictions in its study.
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