By John Hudson
FOREIGN POLICY - September 18, 2015
LAHORE, Pakistan — Moments
after landing at Lahore’s international airport one ordinary day in
September, crowds of Chinese professionals jockeyed for position in an
immigration line that was as long as it was slow. For airport officials
in Pakistan’s second-largest city, the sudden influx of Chinese
nationals was unremarkable: The same thing is happening in cities and
towns across the country.
In the southwestern town of Gwadar,
Chinese nationals run a deep-sea port offering direct access to the
Indian Ocean. In the Gilgit-Baltistan region near Kashmir, Chinese
laborers just finished
the restoration of five tunnels on a critical 500-mile highway that
connects Pakistan to China. And at a hill town resort near the capital
of Islamabad, Chinese diplomats recently dove headfirst into the kind of
messy internal politics they’ve long sought to avoid, rolling up their
sleeves and taking part in peace talks between the Afghan government and
the Taliban.
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