Global Watch | Paying Price Of Insecurity: How Pak's Security Crisis Is Undermining China's CPEC Dream

Chinese companies have forced Beijing to confront a difficult truth: billions of dollars cannot guarantee success when the operating environment remains unsafe.

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When China launched the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor as the flagship project of the Belt and Road Initiative, Beijing envisioned a transformational corridor connecting western China to the Arabian Sea. Gwadar Port was projected as a future regional trade hub, Balochistan as a gateway for minerals and Chinese investment as a symbol of an “all-weather friendship".

Nearly a decade later, the reality presents a different picture. The biggest challenge facing CPEC is no longer only economic viability or debt sustainability. Repeated attacks on Chinese nationals, disruptions in mining, delays in infrastructure and the steady exit or slowdown of Chinese companies have forced Beijing to confront a difficult truth: billions of dollars cannot guarantee success when the operating environment remains unsafe.

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Balochistan: The Security Burden Behind China’s Investments

Balochistan has always been the most strategically important and most challenging region for CPEC. It provides access to Gwadar, contains valuable mineral resources and serves as China’s western gateway to the sea. It has also become the centre of violent resistance to Chinese projects. At........

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