KARACHI: In an unprecedented development on Saturday, the official twitteraccount of PTI tweeted for the first time in Chinese language showingparty’s eagerness to work towards the success of China-Pakistan EconomicCorridor.

Commenting on the matter, Editor-in-Chief of highly influential GlobalTimes Hu Xijin said: “We have noticed the new signals.”

On Friday the newspaper published an editorial on Khan’s victory speech inwhich it stated that China remains a key pillar of Pakistan’s foreignpolicy and the nature of ‘all-weather strategic partnership of cooperationhas lived up to its name, and the conditions that help foster this specialrelationship have not changed with the rise of Khan and his party.’

“We want to work towards the success of CPEC. We also want to send teams tolearn poverty alleviation from China. How to lift our most poor who can’teven eat two meals a day,” the message on Twitter read.

Prof Song Zhihui, director of Pakistan Study Center, Sichuan University,said that he is happy to see the new government has expressed hope topromote Sino-Pakistani cooperation.

However, Tom Hussain, a China watcher and SCMP columnist, opined that ‘thePTI has been working overtime to repair its relations with the Beijing,which had been damaged by its disparaging remarks and allegations ofcorruption about CPEC projects in the past.’

Beijing has been encouraged by the PTI outreach, but it would closely watchthe new government’s decisions, he added.

Insofar, China has invested $62 billion in infrastructure projects focusingon energy, transportation and telecommunication under the CPEC in Pakistan.