China Building Port In Pakistan
With pakistan s two other major ports operating near capacity with no room for expansion projects in gwadar promise to eventually handle one million.
China building port in pakistan. A recent report about china trying to acquire a military base in pakistan has created new concerns about beijing s long term strategic plans in the indian ocean. China is secretly building a high security compound near gwadar port in pakistan s balochistan province which it will probably use for naval base. Right now china has to send its goods through the strait of malacca which takes up too much time. China is building an offshore naval base for warships near the strategic pakistani port.
2008 pakistan and china to build a railway through the karakoram highway in order to link china s rail network to gwadar port. According to forbes a. The new base is supposed to go. It speaks to both the strength of the china pakistan relationship and the reach of china s grand strategy.
Analysts have been watching for the first signs of a long expected chinese naval base at gwadar in pakistan. A substantial heavily defended compound may be a leading indicator of the port s expansion. Earlier in march 2017. China led development of gwadar port is under way in gwadar pakistan on october 2017.
Gwadar port is situated on the shores of the arabian sea in the city of gwadar located in the pakistani province of balochistan the port is located 533 km from pakistan s largest city karachi and is approximately 120 km from the iranian border it is located 380 km 240 mi away from oman and near key oil shipping lanes from the persian gulf. Beijing places high importance on the project since it plans on using the corridor to move goods to and from africa. The gwadar port is part of the us 62 billion china pakistan economic corridor. Recent reports indicate that china is building several new high security complexes at the gwadar deep sea port at western end of pakistan s coastline in balochistan.
2009 the isi arrest several suspected uyghur terrorists seeking refuge in pakistan. Taking its partnership with china a notch further pakistan is reportedly building a city to house half a million chinese nationals at a cost of 150 million in port city of gwadar.