Our Correspondent
\nIslamabad: Terming CPEC a \u2018scenario-changer\u2019 for South Asia rather than being just a \u2018game-changer\u2019,
\nThis was said by Chinese experts on the region inferred emerging nexus between Pakistan, China and Russia to be a defining development for the region\u2019s flourishing future.
\nThey were deliberating at a session on \u2018Trump\u2019s South Asia Policy: Quadrilateral interaction between Pakistan, China, India and USA and Challenges to CPEC\u2019, held at Institute of Policy Studies (IPS). The session was partaken by a three-member delegation from China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) \u2013 China\u2019s largest, oldest and most influential research institutes for international studies, overseen by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China \u2013 which was led by Hu Shisheng, director, CICIR\u2019s Institute of South, Southeast Asian and Oceanic Studies, China. The research faculty of IPS was represented by Lead Coordinator IrfanShahzad, senior associate Brigadier (R) Said NazirMohmand and researchers FareehaSarwar and Waqar-un-Nisa as key discussants.
\nShisheng said that while he had no doubts that the Chinese dream of CPEC was fast becoming a reality which had immense potential for all its stakeholders. Transparency as well as expectation management must be induced as an integral part of all CPEC projects to ensure their smooth progress, he added. Another Chinese delegate Lin Yiming, in his presentation, referred to
\ndecades of close and cordial relations between China and Pakistan stating that the relationship, which was always built around deep-rooted trust and mutual respect, was only expected to get stronger with time, especially with the advent of CPEC. He believed that China\u2019s stance and policy over Pakistan was certain to remain equally amiable in distant future as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Our Correspondent Islamabad: Terming CPEC a \u2018scenario-changer\u2019 for South Asia rather than being just a \u2018game-changer\u2019, This was said by Chinese experts on the region inferred emerging nexus between Pakistan, China and Russia to be a defining development for the region\u2019s flourishing future. They were deliberating at a session on \u2018Trump\u2019s South Asia Policy: Quadrilateral […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n