🇧🇩 Bangladesh-Pakistan Relation---Can we look beyond 1971?

[Lulldapull]

I thought China already invested $46 billion in CPEC, no?

$26 billion thus far. China has stopped any further investments because we are having trouble paying the dues on the $26 billion.

 

[ThunderCat]

I thought China already invested $46 billion in CPEC, no?

Perhaps. And CPEC is no fault of theirs. Foolish Pakistanis wanted it, without considering the environmental consequences.

 

[Saif]

$26 billion thus far. China has stopped any further investments because we are having trouble paying the dues on the $26 billion.

Bhai, doesn't the project aim to address electricity shortages, develop infrastructure, and modernize transportation networks for Pakistan? Ask China to extend the loan payment date so that Pakistan doesn't default on the loan payment.

 

[Lulldapull]

Bhai, doesn't the project aim to address electricity shortages, develop infrastructure, and modernize transportation networks for Pakistan? Ask China to extend the loan payment date so that Pakistan doesn't default on the loan payment.

We needed 10 new power plants and 5 new hwys. Instead we got railroaded with 20 new power plants and 15 new hwys, which is way beyond our capacity to afford. Gwader needed development but that was a mere $2 to $3 billion on project expenditure. Now we couldn't afford all this new infrastructure, but China forced it down our throats because we didn't have neither competent nor empowered bureaucrats making these decision on contract formation more than a decade ago.

You understand what's happened here no?