- China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is being countered by the United States not through competing infrastructure projects but through a global-spanning campaign of subversion, sabotage, and terrorism;
- The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (C…
- China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is being countered by the United States not through competing infrastructure projects but through a global-spanning campaign of subversion, sabotage, and terrorism;
- The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has been hit particularly hard by US-backed terrorism for years including open US government efforts to carve off Baluchistan province from Pakistan to deny CPEC a terminal port at Gwadar;
- Between 2011-2012 US government officials openly called for an “independent” Baluchistan while pumping money through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) into opposition groups including media and so-called “human rights” organizations;
- US-backed separatists have since regularly targeted Chinese engineers and their Pakistani counterparts and Pakistani security with armed violence;
- US-backed separatists have also targeted the Chinese ambassador to Pakistan on at least one occasion;
- Because the US cannot directly attack China’s BRI worldwide, it does through through proxies and is yet another illustration of the role terrorism plays in advancing US foreign policy objectives and the threat the US poses to international peace, prosperity, and stability;
References:
Al Jazeera - Five Chinese nationals among six killed in suicide bomb attack in Pakistan (March 26, 2024):
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/26/five-chinese-nationals-killed-in-suicide-bomb-attack-in-pakistan-police
The National Interest - Free Baluchistan (February 2011):
https://nationalinterest.org/commentary/free-baluchistan-4799
National Endowment for Democracy (NED) - Threats to Defenders of Democracy in Balochistan
https://www.ned.org/docs/Malik-Siraj-Akbar-PowerPoint-Presentation.pdf
Global Times - Exclusive: No Chinese diplomats hurt in Southwest Pakistan bomb attack: embassy (April 2021):
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202104/1221783.shtml
GovTrackUS - Expressing the sense of Congress that the people of Baluchistan, currently divi..
