BEIJING: United States will never succeed fulfilling its ulterior motives, harming Sino-Pak long-term cooperative partnership, says China’s leading English Daily, the Global Times.
Alice Wells, a US State Department official for South and Central Asia, claimed Thursday that Chinese infrastructure projects in Pakistan would damage the latter’s economy over the long term and solely benefit China.
According to Global Times, the accusations were made apparently out of a habit by some US politicians to muddy waters, with an ulterior motive this time to drive a wedge between the two neighboring countries.
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Facts tell how Wells, the principal deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, got it wrong. She willfully ignored the win-win nature of the cooperation and turned a blind eye to the households across Pakistan illuminated under the projects.
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is now in its sixth year and has been broadly accepted by the Pakistani public as a model for promoting win-win cooperation that can help boost the South Asian country’s economy, something that Wells has purposely turned back on.
The Pakistani leadership has reiterated on several occasions that CPEC bolsters Pakistan’s development. Prime Minister Imran Khan recently vowed to ensure that CPEC remains his government’s priority and called for more joint investment under the mega project. (With additional input from INP)
