{"id":6150,"date":"2024-03-30T22:03:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T22:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=6150"},"modified":"2024-03-30T22:04:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T22:04:59","slug":"pakistans-geoeconomic-delusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=6150","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s Geoeconomic Delusions"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Author: <\/b>Arif Rafiq<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Affiliation: <\/b>Vizier Consulting<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Organization\/Publisher: <\/b>Foreign Policy<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Date\/Place:<\/b> April 5, 2021\/ USA<\/span><\/p>

Type of Literature:<\/b> Analysis<\/span><\/p>

Word Count:<\/b> 1750<\/span><\/p>

Link:<\/b>https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2021\/04\/05\/pakistans-geoeconomic-delusions\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Keywords:<\/b> Pakistan, CPEC, Loan, Geo-economics, political economy, Pakistan Military, Trade, Politics<\/span><\/i><\/p>

Brief:<\/b><\/p>

The author, a geopolitical risk consultant of Pakistani-American descent, offers a reality check and challenges Pakistan\u2019s new narrative and shift to a so-called policy of geoeconomics. It took at least a year after returning from Washington, DC\u2019s Institute of Peace as its Associate Vice President for Asia that Pakistani academic Moeed Yusuf\u00a0 triggered a new narrative in the corridors of Islamabad as its National Security Advisor responsible for Strategic Policy Planning, and no one less than Pakistan Military Chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa himself backing it. With this rhetorical policy shift, Pakistan moves from its days of being a security state to one that focuses on geoeconomics. Pakistan chose to be ground for the US\u2019 \u201cwar on terror\u201d by opening military bases to American troops which have occupied Afghanistan since the turn of the century in 2000. Result: America is in a hurry to exit Afghanistan without any gains while Pakistan has lost near 70,000 of its civilians in the first decade of the 21<\/span>st<\/span> century. The number of Afghan lives lost to America\u2019s war is immeasurable. Now, the regime in Islamabad backed by the military has decided to jump in to the bandwagon of geoeconomics. The author dissects these claims, questioning the basics of the new found love. Pakistan is a country of more than 220 million people sandwiched between two hostile neighbors\u00a0 India and Afghanistan, though it has tried to build fences with the latter. The author explains the lack of basic infrastructure for Pakistan\u2019s shift to focus on trade and economic integration. While Pakistan is failingly seeking to strike a balance between the West led by the US, and China, its \u201ciron brother\u201d, the author explains why Washington is not more interested in Islamabad \u2013 its \u201cfirmly in China\u2019s sway.\u201d\u00a0 This is happening as the US\u2019 foreign policy goal post has changed from the so-called war on terror to countering China, Washington\u2019s \u201cprimary threat to its interests.\u201d The author, from his writings, has been critical of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. He argues that the network of roads, highways, and railways won\u2019t help Pakistan build its economy. It is industrialization and rise in exports that can undo the fracture in Pakistan\u2019s $278.2 billion GDP (2019). It needs to start reforms in every sector, build capacities of its human resource, invest in research while reworking on its political-military establishments \u2013 both, as the author claims, are reason for Pakistan\u2019s poverty.<\/span><\/p>


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Author: Arif Rafiq Affiliation: Vizier Consulting Organization\/Publisher: Foreign Policy Date\/Place: April 5, 2021\/ USA Type of Literature: Analysis Word Count: 1750 Link:https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2021\/04\/05\/pakistans-geoeconomic-delusions\/ Keywords: Pakistan, CPEC, Loan, Geo-economics, political economy, Pakistan Military, Trade, Politics Brief: The author, a geopolitical risk consultant of Pakistani-American descent, offers a reality check and challenges Pakistan\u2019s new narrative and shift to 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