Ahsan Maredia, Resident for 3 decades, visited 15+ cities

Answered Nov 29
CPEC is a mid-long term project, which when completed will hopefully bring prosperity to the overall
Pakistani economy. Since it will serve as a corridor not only for China but also Central Asia and beyond.

During the project, steel, engineering, cement, transportation and energy industry would
typically show growth.

However, once the project is nearing completion all the major industries will flourish due to it's impact on
local and regional businesses, human capital, social and consumer aspects of the country. Food,
utilities, energy, IT and service industries would also reap benefits.
Shyam Bhagat, Solution Architect (2014-present)
Answered Mar 25
If you examine successful ports like Dubai and Singapore, they owned by their own states and developed
with long term strategies. But if you check CPEC deals they are negotiated with careless manners and
Pakistani leadership has shown immense immaturity, short-sightedness, and lack of good judgement in
signing off on CPEC. As time will tell, the CPEC will soon become Atlass burden, a symbol for the world to
see but for Pakistan to carry. China will get lot of benefits from it as they will have one sided deal as
Pakistan dont have any choice as a broken economy. Here are some points.

China has an established track record of arriving much like a horde of locusts and completely wiping out
the local indigenous industry. The floodgates to Pakistan have been opened to the Chinese and it is just a
matter of time before Chinese goods do the Walmart-effect on Pakistani industry and destroy what is left
of it.

Because of high taxation and high Electricity rates Industries in Pakistan cannot compete with products of
other countries. For example Cotton Industries in Pakistan which has major share in its exports are
shutting down because they cannot compete with competing industries in China, India and Bangladesh
which are providing concessions to decrease their production cost. Another big reason is China to whom
Pakistan is providing favourable terms like Free Trade and Low Tariff on their imports and cheaper
products from China are the other major reason behind falling Industries in Pakistan.

Also Pakistan has much less to offer China for trade, on the flip side Pakistani market will be flooded by
Chinese goods which may actually kill their traditional businesses.

Ravindranath Karuturi, Learning HUMAN Motives from HISTORY

Answered Dec 30
NONEAs PAK or even INDIA is lagging behind CHINESE INDUSTRIALIZATION

Why is CHINA concentrating its huge Resources in CPEC?

-> Because all of EUROPE and US understood CHINESE Nefarious design with Trade.. And they closing
there market for the world and evaluating there currency to rob jobs across the world.

Impact: BREXIT IN UK, TRUMP in US.. So they understood in FUTURE they and there products
would be banned So in order to find customers and flood ARAB countries with there STUFF they came
up with CPEC ..

IN CPEC Bribe Pakistani Generals, And act like giving benefit to PAK like LOANS for
CPEC that would only be used by CHINESE to EXPORT There products across the ARAB

Who will be PAYING for PAK & How useful is it for PAK or Remaining Countries?
NIL As PAK has no Industries capable of exporting its products other than perishable food to USE
CPEC for EXPORTS..

PAK budget and citizens would be paying for a ROAD i.e. only Useful for CHINESE..

ANALOGY: Long back Britishers came to Bharat or some princely states of INDIA..
Claimed to DEVELOP INDIA by constructing ROADS and RAILWAY System across Length
& Breadth of BHARAT including PAK& People of BHARAT Paid for there highly
overestimated construction prices

THEY USED THOSE ROADS AND RAILWAY FOR THERE IMPORTS AND EXPORTING ROBBED
wealth to back home to there B..TC..H EMPIRE..

AND now how different is CHINESE Policy with PAK IN CPEC

Advantage for PAK from CPEC?

Vehicles may stop for food & water or for repairsHowever most of the CHINESE Carry there own food
and are capable of handling repairs with our much external help\assistance.

DAWN:

KARACHI: China may have more core benefits from the China Pakistan Economic Corridor
(CPEC) but its a game-changer for Pakistan which will also benefit from it. Contrary to what some
Europeans think, Pakistan has a strategic position in the region.

This was one of the main points raised by Dr Jean-Francois Di Meglio in his lecture on The
Economic, Strategic and Environmental Consequences of the New Silk Roads at the Area Study
Centre for Europe (ASCE), University of Karachi, on Wednesday.

Dr Di Meglio, who is President, Asia Centre, France, said he was not an expert on CPEC so what
he would talk about was based on his experiences. He said his talk was divided in two parts:
Europes standpoint on the Silk Road project and Chinas point of view.

Regarding the first part, Dr Di Meglio said when China announced the project in 2013, Europeans
were doubtful about it. They thought since it was a 35-year project nothing could be achieved in the
short term. They also thought that China was trying to rejuvenate something that used to exist in the
past and there was no point doing it. Some people, however, harboured the notion that it was part of
a grand plan. It was innovative because earlier the flow [of goods] was from West to East and now
China was trying to reverse the direction of history.

Shedding light on what Silk Road used to be, Dr Di Meglio said in the late 20th century it was just
a road but also entailed some key points and strategic places, one of which was the area crossing
the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. In modern history, he said, two significant events
took place. The first was the Great Game between Russia and Britain at the end of the 19th century
where Russia had accumulated wealth and wanted access to the sea; the other was the Afghanistan
War that resulted in the disintegration of the USSR.
Dr Di Meglio said it was complicated for Europeans to talk about CPEC but countries like
Germany and France had shown interest in it. With regard to negative feedback, some Central
Asian countries were of the view that Russia was trying to re-establish links with China and the risk
was that China would be too much present. But the Europeans discarded many important factors,
he said.

On the Chinese approach to the situation Dr Di Meglio said [economic] reforms in China started in
1978 and after 35 years, in 2013, they came up with another project. If you looked at the dates,
another 35 years added to 2013 would mean the arrival of the year 2048. In 2047 Hong Kong
would come back to Chinese sovereignty fully; and 2049 would be the 100th anniversary of the
Peoples Republic of China. He said reforms brought in 1978 came through a simple process:
enrichment. If the people were richer they would be easier to manage. The Silk Road had the
potential of making some countries marginally richer. That could be done by building infrastructure
and by linking them up with China.

Dr Di Meglio said CPEC was not an easy project but was not the most difficult to achieve either.
There was room for Pakistani companies and politicians to take the initiative and speak to the
Chinese for a level playing field as much as possible. Whosoever was going to benefit more from
it, it was a game-changer for Pakistan. He argued that lets say Pakistan was only benefiting 10 per
cent from the project; even then you had other benefits like influence and footprint. He said
some Europeans thought that Pakistan existed because there was a partition in 1947; they did not
realise that Pakistan had an important strategic position.

On Chinas ambitions, Dr Di Meglio said while it wanted prosperity and stability, it did not want
domination in the region. China knew that in the past empires rose and fell. The way to last long is
not to dominate other countries but to play with them.