I enjoy Huqs Musings, but if you revisit them a few years on when better data is available, they are not as fabulous as I would hope.
If Gwader reaches 300-400 million tonnes, it will be greater than Hong Kong port, as much as I would like to believe this I am a realist. Karachi is only 66MT...
an objective analysis at least in my eyes.
CPEC is largely unaffected, CAR and Afghan exports via Gwader are minimal compared to potential Chinese exports to Pakistan and beyond.
Less than 10% of Chinese investments are Gwader related, $35 billion , roughly 70% are power related, then we have...
$9 billion increase ? Normally this does not include military pensions or other services .
Great news regardless. Education,health and other socialist stuff can wait.
Plml must be favourites, no one cares about the debt to China, health or education.
Visble things like motorways, metro and power availability that we can't afford will win the day.
Great picture, but my definition of failed state is unable to feed, educate and house population, but everyone's definition differs.
Are we a failed state because we lost half our country ? Is North Korea a failed state or not ? They have nuclear weapons but people starve, like ours.
Are we a...