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 Nazim Rahim, Muhammad Ilyas Ansari. (2019) Pakistan at the Crossroads: Challenges and Opportunities , The Dialogue, Volume 14, Issue 2.
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