There is a difference though
With UAE and Saudi investments, Pakistan will now become their food producer and guarantor.
Signing of Cis moa means that US is back in the play, and they won't let a nuclear Pakistan even trip.
The only issue might be CPEC, which am sure can be managed to look like its trudging along. Pakistan has China by its neck here, as failure of CPEC will be face loss for BRI and the Chinese will never let that happen.
Overall Munir saab has managed things well, and played his cards properly.
China is very much in the foray, in the scheme of things.
It's like Pindi is leveraging US to get closer to China, the CPEC investement and all that, and at the same time leveraging China making US perturbed and coming up with funds/aid and bailouts.
Billions of USD's poured in during WOT with Musharraf at the helm, and earlier during Zia era when US funded the Jihad in Aghanistan, but that aid/CSF, funds didn't trickled down to the masses, only a select few got the benefits, the generals mostly.
This whole 'rentier' on the lease, pandering to others, sense of entitlement, looking for approval from others/west, analogy is flawed and not sustainable, not pluralistic, not empowering to the masses, never ever a country flourished without the sovereignty and the power to take independent decisions.
Pakistan needed a bottom up, a pluralistic, holistic development model that benefits millions upon millions of people, unlike this trickle down effect model where money flows from a few rich to the poor.