SEVEN DECADES OF PAK-CHINA RELATIONSHIP: AN OVERVIEW

Abstract

The mysteries and distorted claims about Pak-China relations have sometimes made it intricate for outside observers to reach an accurate appraisal. The present work aims to engulf multiple dimensions of ties converting into relations then relationship and eventually transforming into friendship between the two unneighborly countries. Ranging the assessment of relations from state to state, society to society and to the common interests of publics’ of both the countries at large is a pursuit. It traces the history through the prism of commonalities of ideological, political, economic, social cultural and strategic determinants of the foreign policy of both of them. Relations between any countries in the modern world are determined by certain factors called determinants of foreign policy in the discipline of international politics. Broadly speaking these factors include geographical location, population, history, economic resources, and the efficiency of government and nature of political leadership, quality of diplomacy and Ideology of the interacting countries. Keeping in view all these factors one may very safely say that no other such example of foreign relations on either side and across the world can be seen that cordial and intimate as between the two neighboring countries of China and Pakistan.

Key words: CPEC, OBOR, Pakistan, China, foreign policy, international relations.