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Turkey's relationship with America went down the gutter once America started supporting and arming the Kurds (against ISIS). It's too late now. As long as the war in Syria continues, the relationship will remain frozen, may be will get worse.

Bhakts can do whatever they want. Nobody cares what these losers think. As long as they don't kill innocent people, no one will attack temples.

It will make no difference whatsoever. They were already getting lynched. They will continue getting lynched.

1 lynching every week. Constant stream of abuse on social media against Muslims. Finally they hit back. It was bound to happen. Don't whine now.

Well duh. Literally in my first comment I said US can't blockade China. This whole discussion is about a hypothetical scenario where US successfully blockades Malacca strait (because that's when CPEC can be an alternative). Get it? Hypothetical. If US can do that, it can certainly blockade...

If we admit that US can blockade China, then yeah, they very much can blockade Pakistan simultaneously :disagree:.

Blockade? You mean a military blockade? US doesn't have the capacity to militarily blockade China anymore. But, for the sake of argument let's assume they did. In that case, what's stopping them from blockading Gwadar as well? Nothing, right? If they can blockade China, they sure as hell can...

Sure but it goes both ways. It's not like China alone will benefit. To put it differently, what would happen if this link was absent? Answer: Nothing. It would be just like it is today.

A strong, economically vibrant Pakistan will be good for China. But let's not pretend China needs Pakistan for "transport link". [

I just checked - Vietnam exports $200+ billion worth of stuff. That's astonishingly high! Vietnam - 100 million pop. - $200 billion export India - 1300 million - $300 billion Bangladesh 180 million - $40 billion Pakistan - 200 million - $20 billion

Hear, Hear! Andrew! Come back!

Umm....yeah. You don't invest in commercially unviable projects. I thought this was quite obvious. Now if you want to burn money, be our guest. BTW the port hasn't seen any uptick in traffic even after China took over.

Barring the demonetization disaster, his performance hasn't been that bad. Growth rate averaged 7%. Inflation has remained low.

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Our 'former' nation? What is our 'former' nation?

Well not the ruling class. They have a better grasp of this things. They don't think this way. But among the general public I noticed this expectation is somewhat there. In any case, don't place too much currency on this report. Perception is relative. Pakistanis may have had a greater...

Correct answer. It was during the Yugoslav wars in the 90s. Pakistanis think China should bail them out of their debt. Only this one time, of course. They will never get into another debt trap, pinky swear. Instead China came up with massive projects with massive price tags.

Holy crap! 30% reduction is huge. Pakistan must be taking notes.

Indian army chiefs were angry with Bose/INA and considered the INA soldiers traitors.

Don't worry. The Dear Leader is going to win 2019 elections handily. The entire country now believes 300 terrorists were killed. OK fine. May be not the entire country but 99.999999% of them. As such, the 'strike' was a spectacular success. Not that I am too much bothered about it. A Modi...