{"id":31113,"date":"2018-10-27T12:10:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T06:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31113"},"modified":"2018-10-27T12:10:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T06:40:36","slug":"china-quietly-holding-talks-with-baloch-militants-for-cpec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/china-quietly-holding-talks-with-baloch-militants-for-cpec\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018China quietly holding talks with Baloch militants for CPEC\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/china-quietly-holding-talks-with-baloch-militants-for-cpec\/article22808310.ece\"><b>\u2018China quietly holding talks with Baloch militants for CPEC\u2019<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a media report, China has been quietly holding talks with Baloch militants in Pakistan\u2019s restive Baluchistan province for over five years to protect its $60 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor initiative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What is the issue?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) passes through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), over which India has conveyed its protests to China.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As CPEC will boost Chinese economy, China has stepped into some of the world\u2019s most complex conflict zones<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pakistan has welcomed the talks between Baloch rebels and Chinese envoys. According to Pakistan, peace in Balochistan will benefit both Pakistan and China.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>About China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The corridor is 3000 km long<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is aimed at connecting China and Pakistan with rail, road, pipelines and optical cable fiber network.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It connects China\u2019s Xinjiang province with Pakistan\u2019s Gwadar port, providing access to China to the Arabian Sea.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project, when completed, would enable China to pump its oil supplies from the Middle East through pipelines to Xinjiang cutting considerable distance for Chinese ships to travel to China.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018China quietly holding talks with Baloch militants for CPEC\u2019 Context: According to a media report, China has been quietly holding talks with Baloch militants in Pakistan\u2019s restive Baluchistan province for over five years to protect its $60 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor initiative. What is the issue? The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) passes through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/china-quietly-holding-talks-with-baloch-militants-for-cpec\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018China quietly holding talks with Baloch militants for CPEC\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704954182},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}