The China-Pakistan relationship has progressed far beyond economic investments and energy projects. Islamabad has clear value for Beijing as a source for transporting illicit substances and dual-use technologies to advance its military programs, including potential proliferation.
Pakistan’s security situation and the proliferation of radical groups and terrorists pose significant geopolitical, business, and security risks for China. They also make it a bad investment due to corruption and bad business environment.
Investments in Pakistan’s economic sector can be seen as a quid pro quo for the services Karachi offers in other areas that China prefers to keep distant, informal, and opaque.
China has recently boasted of its growing and updated nuclear weapons program, perhaps as a challenge to the West’s support of Taiwan, the Philippines, and other countries that challenge China’s geopolitical agenda in the region.
Apart from overt and blatant disregard for the controversy of expanding a nuclear program, it is likely that China clandestinely is also expanding other types of weapon of mass destruction (WMD) in far more expeditious manner than meets the eye.
Allies With Rogue States To Challenge Western Influence
China is interested in cooperating with failing states, rogue regimes, and radical movements as long as they serve a role in challenging and countering Western countries, India, and anyone else that gets in the way of Beijing’s program of global dominance.
Pakistan’s chaotic political environment makes it easy to exploit corrupt and mismanaged local conditions to subvert sanctions, export-import controls, and other international bans and regulations limiting the transport and procurement of potentially threatening substances.
As a secretive regime, China wields a vast intelligence apparatus that keeps a tight lid on its research and distribution programs, making it difficult to curtail and analyse illicit activities until it is too late.
China’s role in promoting fentanyl production with the assistance of Mexican drug cartels and narco-terrorists, aimed at weakening the US population, is an example of how the Chinese government plays a sinister role in major drug-related operations that are actually intelligence and security operations in furtherance of its ambitions and aimed at harming the Western society, disguised as oversight and willful blindness.
Pakistan, too, is essential for maintaining plausible deniability. Given the distrust between China, Pakistan, India, and the West, uncovering the full story may take considerable time, resources, and a focused approach.
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