China's String of Pearls

[davidbfpo]

Hat tip to WoTR for this article, which gives an update on the repoirted Chinese 'pearl' in Sri Lanka:https://warontherocks.com/2017/03/sr...-indian-ocean/

[davidbfpo]

Hat tip to WoTR for this update on the "pearl" @ Hambantota, Sri Lanka:

In short, India is spending $300 million buying an airport to block a Chinese naval base.

Link:https://warontherocks.com/2017/12/em...china-rivalry/

[davidbfpo]

From the FT:

China has been quietly holding talks with Pakistani tribal separatists for more than five years in an effort to protect the $60bn worth of infrastructure projects it is financing as part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.

Link:https://www.ft.com/content/063ce350-...6-b9ccc4c4dbbb

One wonders will the locals, let alone the militants, be tempted by work or other options and so enable the road and port to operate? It's almost how it was before.

[davidbfpo]

A curious document, from September 2017 from a previously unheard of think tank (German-Pakistani) on the Chine-Pakistan Economic Corridor and somehow I doubt any pearls will be found.
Link to 50 pgs.:http://www.cpecinfo.com/news/the-rea...ction/NDg0Mw==

A Tweet pointed at the report as the facts on public opinion were striking.

[davidbfpo]

A long NYT article on how China ended up with an empty port.
Link:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/w...anka-port.html