China's Westward One Belt One Road Strategy

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- Pakistan has welcomed China’s proposal of early launching of anti-extremism treaty to safeguard regional security.

The proposal to this effect was placed before the recently concluded Shanghai Cooperation (SCO) member countries summit by the Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang.

Pakistani officials attending the Summit termed the proposal as good initiative to compel the member countries to check flourishing of extremist mind-set in the security related affairs.

Li Keqiang urged the SCO member countries to approve an anti-extremism treaty at an early date to better safeguard regional security.

The SCO members should speed up the process in their respective country to have the document approved and taken effect as soon as possible, Li said while attending the 16th SCO Prime Ministers meeting, which was held this week in Russia's coastal City of Sochi.

The SCO anti-extremism treaty was signed by eight member countries in June's Astana summit in Kazakhstan, but it will come into force with approvals in the member countries, namely China , Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, India and Pakistan .

The document, which plays an exemplary role for international anti-extremism cooperation, shows the region's decisive resolution in the fight against the "three evil forces," namely terrorism, extremism and separatism, Li said.

Security is the basic foundation for development and meets the expectations of people, Li said, calling for further regional security cooperation under the common, all-round, cooperative and sustainable security concept.

In order to prevent the backflow of terror groups, the SCO members should promote security cooperative mechanism, deepen cooperation in the fields of information exchanges, training and security protection in large-scale events, Li said.

He also suggested that the establishment of a regional center to address security challenges and threats, and to augment cooperation in drug control and fighting cross-border crimes.

The SCO meeting is the first of its kind after the organisation's membership expansion in June to include Pakistan .

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Li Keqiang said that China is willing to play a constructive role in Afghanistan's peaceful reconstruction.

Li made the pledge when meeting with Afghan government Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah on the sidelines of the 16th meeting of the Council’s meeting.

He said that China supports a wide and inclusive political reconciliation process led and owned by the Afghan people, and is ready to assist Afghanistan in realising its domestic political stability and economic development.

Expanding pragmatic cooperation between China and Afghanistan on economy and trade cannot be done without a safe and stable external environment, said Li, adding, that China will enhance dialogue and cooperation with Afghanistan and Pakistan with the goal of achieving long-term regional stability and security in an early date

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Russia's proposal to join India 'One Belt One Road'...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that New Delhi should not remain away from the project due to its political problems, a plan that costs billions of dollars, must definitely benefit.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said his Chinese and Indian counterpart Wang Lee and Sushma Swaraj met in a three-day visit, in which Indian reservations were also discussed on the Chinese project.

Sarai Lloyd said, "I know India has reservations on the Chinese project One-Day One Road, but political differences Other resources on the ground should be given a legitimate.

'However, India has been a Russian weapon for the last few years Instead of air, American warrior has been expressing more interest in purchasing consumables. It is important that India is still objectionable to the One-belt One-Road project, while India said that the CPEC project passes through Jammu and Kashmir For the sake of self-determination is concerned.

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China’s Ambitious New ‘Port’: Landlocked Kazakhstan

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The Khorgos Gateway, where China and Kazakhstan are building a rail hub and town in a Kazakh desert.




KHORGOS, Kazakhstan — China’s largest shipping company has poured billions of dollars into
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and other maritime nations around the world. But the location of its latest big foreign investment has given a curious twist to the expanding ambitions of the China Ocean Shipping Company: The nearest ocean is more than 1,600 miles away.


The state-owned Chinese shipping giant, known as COSCO, became the 49 percent owner this past summer of a patch of frost-covered asphalt bisected by railway tracks and lined with warehouses in landlocked Kazakhstan. The barren wilderness close to the border with China stands near the
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, meaning that nowhere on the landmass of Europe and Asia is more distant from the sea.


But it is here, where huge, Chinese-made cranes load containers onto trains instead of ships, that China and Kazakhstan are embracing what they see as the new frontier of global commerce.

Forbidding as it is, the place is a central link in what
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— a $1 trillion infrastructure program known as “One Belt, One Road,” which aims to revive the ancient Silk Road and build up other trading routes between Asia and Europe to pump Chinese products to foreign markets.



The gamble is not only reshuffling global transport routes, but also shaking up Kazakh and global politics as China inserts itself deeper into a region that Russia considers squarely within its area of influence. Not least, it is testing the economic logic of China’s ability to carry out its grandest of ambitions.

Creating a transport hub — the Khorgos Gateway, a “dry port,” or terminal without water for handling cargo for trains rather than ships — in one of the world’s most remote places has involved an expensive exercise in social engineering.
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