ISLAMABAD – Pakistan and China have decided to fight internationalconspiracies against CPEC.
Both have been able to remove misunderstandings on the multi-billion-dollarChina-Pakistan Economic Corridor project and have vowed to expand thestrategic ties to a new level, officials said on Sunday.
Senior officials at the foreign ministry told The Nation that the twoallies had pledged to ignore ‘international conspiracies’ against the CPEC.
One official said: “The CPEC will not be halted. The internationalconspiracies will not work. In fact we will expand the strategic ties to anew level. Pakistan and Chinese leadership discussed everything (on CPEC)and there are no issues now.”
Another official said that Beijing had warned Pakistan about Indianconspiracies against CPEC. “They (China) have asked us to keep our eyesopen. Some of our neighbours (referring to India) are not happy at all(with the CPEC),” he added.
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The ‘misunderstanding’ on the CPEC surfaced after the Financial Times‘misquoted’ Adviser to the PM Razzak Dawood. The Financial Times hadreported that Pakistan was planning to review or renegotiate agreementsreached under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Prime Minister ImranKhan had also criticised some parts of the CPEC agreements signed by thelast Pakistan Muslim League-N-led government.
Earlier in the day, the two sides issued a joint statement after PrimeMinister Imran Khan held talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping andPremier Li Keqiang.
