A paper contributed by IPS exclusively for the academic event was presented at the 3rd National Maritime Seminar themed ‘China – Pakistan Economic Corridor: it’s Maritime Implications for Pakistan’, organized by Pakistan Navy’s National Centre for Maritime Policy Research (NCMPR), Bahria University, Karachi on January 21, 2016.
The paper titled “The Socio-Political and Diplomatic Implications of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)’, was authored by DG-IPS Khalid Rahman and presented in the seminar by Commodore Dr. M Ihsan Qadir SI(M).
The paper highlighted a number of social, political and diplomatic implications of CPEC that China and Pakistan could face, maintaining that while the initiative was a bilateral one, the venture ultimately would benefit not only the two countries but actually the whole region.
