تلخیص
Geostrategic beauty attracts both the friends and foes. The former tend
to cooperation, mutuality and symbiotic relationship, while the later
bend to competition, rivalry and clandestine intrigues, either to tarnish
it or to push it to the vanishing point. Natural beauty is both a
challenge and an opportunity, in terms of protection from enemies and
attraction for allies. This develops behaviors of synergy and cynicism,
for cooperation and competition respectively. Pakistan, being the
prisoner of its geography, natural endowments and strategic location is
at the crossroads of challenges and opportunities. It sits at the nexus of
the major powers geopolitical interests and growing prospects of Asian
Century. Unfortunately, some regional and extra-regional powers,
instead of pursuing their geopolitical interests through cooperative
behaviors are tending more towards their competitive strategic options.
These strategic calculations are creating strategic mess for the whole
region in general and Pakistan in particular. This instant study
analytically discusses the Sino-Pak geostrategic and geo-economic
rapprochement and the Indo-US counterproductive responses in postCPEC scenario.
Asghar Ali, Muhammad Ilyas Ansari, Muhammad Nazim Rahim. (2019) Pakistan at the Crossroads: Challenges and Opportunities , The Dialogue, Volume 14, Issue 2.
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