Article
China Pakistan Economic Corridor: Domestic Trajectory and Contested Geopolitics

By : Prateek Joshi

Page No: 255-276

Abstract 
The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) completes six years in 2021. This article analyses its physical progress, the changes in the civil-military ties and the emerging structural impact on Pakistan’s various economic sectors. Besides the continuing opacity in the project details, it is also observed that Pakistan’s power, telecom and connectivity infrastructure commands greater control than ever before from the Chinese corporations. With Pakistan occupying a greater centrality in regional geopolitics, the article also contextualizes CPEC in the tight ropewalk Islamabad traverses between Beijing and Washington in its attempts to balance Chinese inroads with its dependence on the IMF’s bailouts.

Author : 
Prateek Joshi is a Dphil candidate researching on India’s Foreign Policy at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He has also done extensive research and written on developments in Pakistan.