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Article: Pakistan\u2019s Reliance on Chinese-Built Power Plants Is Strangling Its Economy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article reported on immense strain on Pakistan\u2019s economy due to their reliance on Chinese-built power plants for electricity. The ultimate consequence of this, other than an economy beyond repair, relations between both Asian countries are worsening. With most of the country being lower income or facing poverty, the strain on electricity bills from these beijing-made-powerplants has caused widespread public dissent. This deal was originally part of the larger goal of establishing a trade corridor between China and Pakistan as well boosting Pakistan\u2019s economy \u2014 for which the opposite has happened. This deal between Pakistan is also part of a larger initiative by China to entice developing countries with their advanced technologies for economic benefits, which is seen to be effective for their own development. Overall, Pakistan\u2019s relying on Chinese power plants for electricity has shown to overwhelm the poverty-stricken population. The demand for these expensive power plants have decreased, leading a wave of families switching to solar panels for their electricity. Pakistan\u2019s government has planned to negotiate on cutting up the country\u2019s bills by up to a fifth, additionally wanting to negotiate the terms of the long-term contracts with private operators and the Chinese power plants. This piece gives insight to how the relations between these two countries, which were already worsening, is plummeting substantially from an economic lens as well. This, of course, ties in with the political upheaval following Islamabad-based Chinese citizens being killed by intrastate militant groups in Balochistan from my last blog post. With that still being an ongoing issue, I doubt that these goals of renegotiations will go far, if anything, they\u2019ll be delayed. Islamabad would have to gain control of their separatist militias in order to potentially increase probabilities of successful negotiations, but to do this, even more civil unrest is to occur. From China\u2019s point of view, they have already proposed a solution to their personnel being killed on Pakistani soil: Chinese security intervening on Pakistani soil to deal with the issue themselves. This poses an issue of sovereignty for Pakistan, however, so they must seek another way to entice China for renegotiations. On a global scale, I can possibly Pakistan relying on other larger economies such as the US for power or increased aid. But I do not think that\u2019ll be too successful with Trump\u2019s new administration as he greatly cut aid sent to Pakistan in his first term. With the soured relations between Pakistan and China, it is unclear how Islamabad plans to relieve their own economy which is dependent on successful negotiations with China, an ally that isn\u2019t too fond of Pakistan at the moment and won\u2019t be unless they gain some sort of control of their internal separatists.\u00a0
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Article: Pakistan\u2019s Reliance on Chinese-Built Power Plants Is Strangling Its Economy This article reported on immense strain on Pakistan\u2019s economy due to their reliance on Chinese-built power plants for electricity. The ultimate consequence of this, other than an economy beyond repair, relations between both Asian countries are worsening. With most of the country being lower income or facing poverty, the… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6180,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6179\/revisions\/6180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}