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It is a weakness for a nation to be too reliant on another nation......even the Israelis recognize this.
Closer China and Pakistan relations are a good thing, especially as China is a very responsible International player which seems to desire genuine bilateral cooperation with nations around the world for mutual benefits....The Chinese provide infrastructure/industry, and in return receive raw materials for their vast industrial capacity.
China is not a hegemonic power with 800 military bases around the world.
China is not run by Jews and Israel......with their particular needs.
China does not conduct a foreign policy based on endless wars in the greater Middle East.
China does not formant destabilization programs in Third World nations.
China is not arrogant, racist or practice hypocrisy in its International relations.
However it is a little incredible that Pakistan should try and nurture closer strategic relations with China, whilst simultaneously continuing with highly sensitive security relationship with the USA, which compromises Pakistan's ultimate sovereignty. This sounds like a policy which is "mess-up" and unclear. For Pakistan to accrue the maximum benefits for Pak/China friendship, Pakistan will have to sever ALL ties with the USA. You cannot have it both ways..........this is the Coolie Kuta model practiced by Saleh of Yemen who artificially played up the bogey of "al-Qaeda" in order to get USA/Saudi financial/military help, then used the aid to attack his political opponents within the country.
To a Coolie Kuta free aid sounds good.....its free, and you can line your Swiss account for free. Beit from the USA or from China using the Saleh of Yemen model. Threats Threats Threats, 'al-Qaeda" al-Qaeda" help me! help me! help me! or else the nukes will fall into the wrong hands. The Taliban will take over Pakistan................but serious statecraft doesn't run like that.
Pakistan must sever ALL ties with the USA, before ALL benefits of a Sino-Pak relationship can be fully realized. Pakistan cannot have it both ways........otherwise the relationships of this attempted "menage a trois" where Pakistan is the weaker little whore/party will fail disastrously.
Finally, Pakistan needs to secure her land borders and stability on land first, before she looks to the sea, for further expanded strategic power (strategic depth/strategic reach).
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Pakistan says wants China to build naval base
By TOI
Pakistan said on Saturday it wanted to build it a naval base, in the latest sign of moves to strengthen ties with Beijing as relations with Washington falter.
The announcement from Pakistan's defence minister came a day after Pakistan's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani returned from a four-day visit to China, Islamabad's biggest arms supplier.
"We would be ... grateful to the Chinese government if a naval base is ... constructed at the site of Gwadar for Pakistan," defence minister Ahmad Mukhtar said is a statement, referring to a deep-water port in Pakistan's southwest.
The statement did not say whether Pakistan had asked China to build the base at the port in Baluchistan province.
Islamabad is trying to deepen ties with Beijing as relations with the United States have come under strain following the killing of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan this month.
Many in Washington have called for a review of billions of dollars of US aid to Pakistan after discovering bin Laden had been hiding for years in a Pakistani garrison town.
China invested $200 million in the first phase of the construction of the port, which was inaugurated in 2007.
The development, 70 km (45 miles) east of the Iranian border and on the doorstep of Gulf shipping lanes, was designed to handle transhipment traffic for the Gulf.
Mukhtar said the Chinese government had agreed to take operational control of Gwadar port once a contract with Singapore's PSA International Ltd [PSAIN.UL] expired in around 35 years' time.
During Gilani's visit, Mukhtar said China had agreed to speed up the delivery of 50 multi-role combat JF-17 "Thunder" aircraft, each worth up to $25 million.
The close ties between China and Pakistan reflect long-standing shared wariness of their common neighbor India and a desire to hedge against US influence across the region.
