Thread by @STUinSD

Thread: On the Emerging China-Iran-Pakistan Alliance

1. China continues its inexorable march toward domination of the world economy by building partnerships in Southwest Asia.

2. Its “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI) involves China underwriting billions of dollars of infrastructure investment in countries along the old Silk Road linking it with Europe.

2A. The goal is exporting Chinese infrastructure capacity in order to develop new markets for Chinese goods.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Belt_…

3. China seeks to develop an integrated economic market consisting of “all Eurasian nations.” Integral to the network is development of a series of land corridors to facilitate overland trade, including the China–Central Asia–West Asia Corridor running from West China to Turkey.

4. Thus, the Chinese have been steadily focused on improved ties with Iran since the 1960’s, as summarized here:

thediplomat.com/2018/05/the-hi…

5. And also with Pakistan since the 1950s, with current emphasis on developing the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, as summarized here:

brookings.edu/events/china-p…

6. And finally, the below article points to an emerging China-Iran-Pakistan Alliance aimed at thwarting American national interests in the region:

dailycaller.com/2018/05/23/eme…

7. With Islamic (and therefore fickle) Pakistan’s strategic commercial port of Gwadar as a commercial trading outlet to the Arabian Sea/Indian Ocean firmly ensconced within the Spider Dragon’s web, ….

7A. …Xi Jinping’s back-up (China never puts all of its eggs in one basket) Arabian Sea outlet now can easily switch to the nearby port of Chabahar, just 90 km to the west.

8. It can connect the Chinese land-port of Khorgos with the Pamir Highway then via Dushanbe and the north/south road through Afghanistan. We understand that project is being disastrously mismanaged by the US Corps of Engineers.

9. China’s back-up port, then, is financed, intriguingly by Iran and India. The road through Afghanistan paralleling the Khunjerab Pass road in Pakistan is financed with US dollars.

10. Now, that might create a) a ruckus ‘twixt China and India – always simmering, or b) a joining in commercial interests – not too likely.

11. BRI, the New Silk Road, is being managed and well-thought out by Beijing. The idea is to ensure a non-interruption of the flow of consumer goods outwardly and the inflow of cash to finance the web of international Sino-Communism being cast across the globe.

12. There is always a Plan B to every move by China.

13. Now, will China next improve the Makran Coast route to Bandar Abbas and yet another lair of the Spider Dragon’s ensnarement of the Euro-African trade? A very likely move that would leave the US Navy helpless to interdict in the event the D.C. war-planners had that in mind.

14. With the Khorgos to Tehran railroad realized and Bandar Abbas road simply needing improving, the web is tightening.

15. Any seasoned China watcher can easily visualize the potential of these geopolitical and strategic chessboard moves. But are we even paying attention, what with moribund Washington wrapped in Deep State vs. Trump power struggles?

16. Is there anything more sinister to the Founding Fathers’ experiment in freedom than the Progressive Movement masquerading under the Democrat banner in conjunction with the Deep State? Talk about Nero’s fiddling!!

17. How much of all this lack of attention by Americans can be laid at the feet of the John Dewey school of progressive education that destroyed America’s classic learning? In my opinion, the majority of it!

18. Conclusion: the BRI is a real strategy being pursued in multiple dimension by Beijing. We ignore China’s ongoing Belt and Road Initiative at our collective peril! ///The end.