BEIJING – China has sternly warned those conspiring against the PakistanChina ties and the China Pakistan Economic Corridor Project.

China has vowed to foil the plots against Pakistan China strategicpartnership, top diplomat was quoted as saying.

Any plots to sow discord in China’s ties with Pakistan will not prevail,the Chinese government’s top diplomat said, as Beijing fends off criticismof its economic projects in Pakistan and a clampdown in China’s westernXinjiang region.

China has pledged $57 billion (£43 billion) to build power stations, majorhighways, new railways and high capacity ports along the China-PakistanEconomic Corridor, a key part of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Belt andRoad plan to further tie China to Eurasia.

The sustainability of Chinese projects has come under fresh scrutiny inrecent months, as U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in July warned thatany potential International Monetary Fund bailout for Pakistan’s troubledeconomy should not be used to pay off Chinese lenders. Both Beijing andIslamabad say the loans are sustainable.

China welcomes the good start made in its “all-weather” partnership withPakistan following the election of the new government under Prime MinisterImran Khan, State Councillor Wang Yi told Pakistan Foreign Minister ShahMehmood Qureshi on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York.

But “any conspiracies attempting to incite disharmony or interfere inChina-Pakistan relations will not prevail,” Wang added, withoutelaborating, according to a statement released by China’s foreign ministryon Wednesday.