Islamabad: Head of the China-Pakistani Economic Corridor Authority (CPEC) has accused the United States to save a multi-billion-dollar project, the Pakistani economic life path, said a media report.
The ambitious CPEC was launched in 2015 when the Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Pakistan.
It aims to connect Western China with Gwadar Port in southwest Pakistan through road networks, trains and other projects of infrastructure and development.
“From the point of view of the geo-strategic situation that appears, one thing is clear: United States is supported by India accidentally against CPEC.
It won’t let it succeed.
That’s where we have to take a position,” Khalid Mansoor, Special Assistant Prime Minister Pakistan Imran Khan On CPEC business said while handling the CPEC Summit at the Business Administration Institute in Karachi on Saturday.
Islamabad is the seventh largest recipient of domestic development financing with 71 projects worth USD 27.3 billion is currently ongoing as part of CPEC.
Many tanks and Western commentators have called the CPEC economy trap which has resulted in the level of public debt which is bloated and the influence of China is disproportionate in the economy of Pakistan, a report in the Dawn newspaper said.
Aude Premier said the United States and India continue to “make efforts to issue Pakistani maneuvers from” Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – Global Infrastructure Development Plans – where the Chinese government has invested a lot in around 70 countries, the report said.
“It is impossible for Pakistan to forget the benefits.
It has more than once burning his fingers on the (Western) (Western) alliance in the past,” he said, adding that their efforts to weaken Chinese strategic influences in the region would fail.
Mansoor said Western forces viewed CPEC as a symbol of Chinese political ambitions.
“That is the reason CPEC looks suspicious by the United States and Europe …
they looked at CEPC more as moving by China to expand its political, strategic and business influence,” Mansoor said, noting that China had been able to eliminate the worries “for the most part”.
The United States now “takes stock of economic and political consequences” withdrawal from the region, it is reasonable.
“I got a detailed discussion with people at the American Embassy.
I told them CPEC was also available for them.
They have also expressed their desire that they want to develop some kind of involvement and see how it can benefit both countries,” he said.
Mansoor said Islamabad was looking for CPEC expansion to Afghanistan and has discussed the possibility of the Taliban led Afghanistan who joined the multibilion-dollar economic corridor.
He said there had been “deep interest” in developing economic connectivity between Afghanistan and Pakistan and with other neighboring countries, including Iran.
“Some European countries began to show interest (in CPEC).
Their ambassadors continued to come,” he said.
He refers to fake news and “negative propaganda” about the feasibility of CPEC and the rate of progress.
“In the case of the scope, the phase II CPE will be a greater number of phase I.”