China and Pakistan signed the transfer of Gwadar Port, India This really anxious!

CMB Railway Gwadar Port and planning of strategic significance for China

Pakistan Business News quoted sources as saying on the 17th, the operating rights of the Gwadar Port from Singapore handed over to enterprises signed agreement will be the 18th presidential palace in Pakistan. It is said that Pakistan attaches great importance to President Zardari may attend the signing ceremony. In this way, Agence France-Presse 17 Posting the same old tune, China National Offshore expansion is critical "," This move will allow the Chinese naval base in the Arabian Sea has the potential, make India restlessness "said the Gwadar port".

Pakistan's Dawn newspaper "and" Express Tribune "website 17 also reported that 18 agreement signed transfer the operating rights of the Gwadar Port. Reported that the transfer of the right to operate the work will be completed within a week, before the terms of the agreement with the consistent, no changes. On January 30 this year, the Pakistan Cabinet approved the operating rights of the Gwadar Port to the Singapore Port Authority handed over to China Overseas Holdings Limited, sparked international media attention. 17, Agence France-Presse reported that China had come up with 75% of the Gwadar Port construction of the initial capital of $ 250 million, but in 2007, the Singapore Port Authority from the win in the hands of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf when he was a 40-year lease. Reported that Musharraf not want to offend Washington, so there is no lease to the Chinese. But after that, the Gwadar port in successive years cargo lack of unsustainable management, Gwadar Port is basically in idle most of the time. Therefore, Chinese experts say China took over the Gwadar port, also reflects China's support of the Palestinian economy.

China won the right to operate Gwadar Port significance are some concerns about the infinite expansion. Agence France-Presse said 17 significant strategic Gwadar Port, China has made the Gwadar Port, will be beneficial to the implementation of the energy strategy and naval base in the Arabian Sea has the potential to play a role in the checks and balances in India. Get the right to operate Gwadar Port will allow the port to become a corridor linking China, the Arabian Sea and the Hall of wood the Strait, but also will promote the region's oil transportation and trading. In addition, the Gwadar Port would be China used for military purposes, and whether it will become a "string of pearls" further surrounded by India, also attracted Western analysts have speculated.

Pakistani media analysts believe that, If fully developed, the Gwadar port to the landlocked Central Asia and other parts of the world can better connect, strengthen Pakistan's foreign trade, bring its economic interests, and make the bulk The cargo ship pulled into the main ocean. , Gwadar Port Project can also provide thousands of jobs and improve the lives of the people of Balochistan. Far to Karachi distance, but also reduces the Gwadar Port by the Indian naval blockade of the possibility of threat. According to the strategic expert analysis, land transport issues get resolved, or CMB oil and gas pipeline projects come true Gwadar port can be directly used to transport oil and gas to the western region of China, which will also weaken U.S. influence in the Arabian Sea.

Gwadar port is a rare deep water port in Pakistan, near the Strait of Hormuz and the Iranian border, is the throat to the Indian Ocean, Pakistan and West Asia. Such an important strategic position, the Gwadar Port has repeatedly been one of the reasons why foreign media speculation. However, Agence France-Presse quoted experts as saying that the Gwadar Port where the poor security situation in Balochistan, the Taliban, serious sectarian conflict, the secessionists launched violent attacks have occurred in 17. Therefore, the Sino-Pakistani economic cooperation, there is still a long way to go.