Krptonite
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Of course, it is GoPs right to choose her relations and set forth in a direction that she feels best serves her interests.We have preferential measures for all friendly nations of the world and we aim for self reliance. We host people from across the Muslim world be it Bangladesh, Sudan or Afghanistan. Pakistan is also working closely with China to help her with connectivity in her underdeveloped eastern region.
India is a non factor in our policy to alleviate human condition in the region. We propose balkanisation of India to effectively counter poverty in the region.
Economic considerations can be also be termed as geographic considerations.
While China may also represent a viable and attractive option, geography tends to play spoil sport.
1. The elevation increases as you go north along the trade links between China and Pakistan. This increases fuel and logistic cost. Plus the weather plays as a inhabitant to trade. An all weather road or link just could not economically sustain tranfer of goods at a volume your ships can.
2. ~90% of Chinas population centres are at their east coast, far from your shared borders. You could start by capturing Chinas western population market but it is not comparable to her eastern one in purchasing power and would saturate very quickly.
3. Rail links and land trade cannot hope to match the volume that is available by sea trade at the same cost. What exporter would pay multiples to do the same task.
4. Trade with countries an ocean away is still doing trade with a far off country, that involves additional costs like freight, insurance, time delays due to custom clearance, added costs that make your products uncompetitive. It also leaves your vulnerable to international financial bodies as they can dictate your credit status and indurectly your insurance costs.
You can observe a common point in all current strong economies, All of them can face a cost when acting in their self interests because they have optimised regional trade that acts as an economic cushion for their actions. Nation states can act when they have the wherewithal to do so, rest just becoms bluster.
For a Pakistani exporter, to graduate to a national corporation and then a global one how would you suggest one overcome this hurdle as in global competition you need to gain market share and cost is king.
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