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The China-Pakistan axis plays a central role in Asia's geopolitics, from India's rise to the prospects for a post-American Afghanistan, from the threat of nuclear terrorism to the continent's new map of mines, ports and pipelines. China is Pakistan's great economic hope and its most trusted military partner. Pakistan lies at the heart of China's geostrategic ambitions, from its take-off as a global naval power to its grand plans for a new silk road connecting the energy fields of the Middle East and the markets of Europe to the mega-cities of East Asia. Yet Pakistan is also the battleground for China's encounters with Islamic militancy, the country more than any other where China's rise has turned it into a target.
For decades, each side has been the other's only "all-weather friend", but the relationship is still little understood. The wildest claims about it are widely believed, while many of its most dramatic developments remain closely-guarded secrets. This book explains the ramifications of Sino-Pakistani ties for the West, for India, for Afghanistan, and for Asia as a whole. It tells the stories behind some of the relationship's most sensitive aspects, including Beijing's support for Pakistan's nuclear program, China's dealings with the Taliban, and the Chinese military's planning for crises in Pakistan. From China's involvement in South Asia's wars to the Obama administration's efforts to secure Chinese cooperation in stabilizing the region, it traces the dilemmas Beijing increasingly faces between pursuing its strategic rivalry with India and the United States, and the imperative to address a terrorist threat that has become one of the gravest dangers to China's internal stability.
- Sales Rank: #609122 in eBooks
- Published on: 2014-01-15
- Released on: 2014-01-15
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Review
"A work of stupendous research, rich in fresh insights. Extremely well-written" -- A G Noorani, Frontline
"Outstanding new book... Small pulls [the history] together deftly and with meticulous sourcing. But he supplements it with extensive interviews, and these paint a richer picture of Chinese foreign policy in motion." -- Shashank Joshi, The Interpreter
"Small is right, in his very readable account, that despite the importance of this relationship, it is one that is rarely looked at in any great detail. This is one of the few, and by far the most lucid and helpful, on what the dynamics between these totally different odd bedfellows actually is ... This is an excellent, succinct book, and written with great verve ... on China-Pakistan relations, and its regional and global context, it is hard to think of a better possible treatment.' -- Kerry Brown, Asian Review of Books
"This fascinating book disentangles the relationship between one of the oddest couples in geopolitics ... Small's remarkably frank interviews with Beijing policymakers illustrate that China has been caught between the desire to draw on US power to control the growth of Islamism that might stretch into China's western Xinjiang province, and reluctance to allow Washington further influence in Asia" -- Rana Mitter, Prospect
"An authoritative study of [this] pivotal entente ... the book is a wealth of data on a previously under-researched subject ... The region's dual axes and their evolving relationships -- India and America on the one hand, and Pakistan and China on the other -- will be central to the global order in our times" -- Bruce Riedel, Lawfare / Brookings
"An excellent book." -- Anatol Lieven, New York Review of Books
"An impressive account of a little-understood friendship" -- The Economist
"This unique and timely work provides fresh insights into one of the most important and most neglected new developments in world affairs -- China's turn to south and west Asia. As the US pivots toward (East) Asia, Andrew Small shows us how China is moving beyond traditional concepts of Asia." -- Barnett Rubin, Senior Fellow and Director at the Center on International Cooperation, New York University
The China-Pakistan Axis explores one of the most resilient and paradoxical bilateral relations of the post colonial era -- a superb illustration of the manner in which international relations can be determined by power considerations. Pakistan and China have been 'all weather friends' for more than fifty years in spite of their ideological differences. Andrew Small shows that their rapprochement resulted mostly from a real politik assessment of their common enemy, India, but that non material variables are back in the picture today because of the islamist connection in the case of the Uighurs, for example. The strength of Small's work lies in its analysis of the fascinating scope and trajectory of the Beijing--Islamabad relationship." -- Christophe Jaffrelot, Research Director at CNRS, Sciences Po and author of The Pakistan Paradox: Instability and Resilience
"Andrew Small's remarkable book paints a vivid picture of twenty-first century geopolitics by uncovering one of the most important and under-explored relationships. A gripping narrative of how China's rise meets nukes, terrorists and the Taliban" -- Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations and author of What Does China Think?
About the Author
Andrew Small has worked on Chinese foreign and economic policy issues in Beijing, Brussels, London, and now Washington, D.C. He is a transatlantic fellow with the Asia program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, which he established in 2006. He previously worked as the director of the Foreign Policy Centre's Beijing office; as a visiting fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and was an ESU scholar in the office of Senator Edward M. Kennedy. His articles and papers have been published in outlets including the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and the Washington Quarterly. He is the author of the new book: "The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia's New Geopolitics", published by Hurst / Oxford University Press.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
The 21st Century's Most Crucial Geo-Strategic Alliance
By Mr. D. J. Walford
Andrew Small sheds light on one of the least known, yet strategically significant, relationships in international relations; the informal alliance between China and Pakistan. Virtually unacknowledged in the West, China and Pakistan's co-operation over the previous five decades has touched many areas; military, some economic and even some logistical and scientific issues. These two nations could very well hold the key to a politically stable future Asian continent and also the growing threat to both of militant Islam groups.
Firstly, it needs to be said, Small highlights categorically that the alliance between China and Pakistan, despite being decades old, has never been entirely formal in nature. No treaties, agreements, pacts or unions have ever been signed between the two. This should not reduce the importance of the axis to either party, however, and is indeed one of the reasons why it has remained 'hidden' for so long. The strategic benefit of the axis to both nations is explained in detail
The vast extent of the axis has and continues to be military in nature. Since the Sino-Indian War of 1962, China has regularly supplied arms and logistics to Pakistan, seeing her as a counterpoint to a local strategic rival; India. This grew after the 'Smiling Buddha' detonation of an atomic bomb by India during the mid-1970s, and here is where the author hits the crucial pivot of the China/Pakistan axis; the supplying of nuclear capability to the Pakistan government.
Small makes it abundantly clear that it's not simply a case of China shipping nuclear weapons to Islamabad. Co-operation, collusion and exchanges of ideas are apparent. A simplistic view is that of Chinese brawn and Pakistani brains working together, but further research emphasizes an element of both brawn and brain by each side. Pakistani knowledge of rocket technology, however, was not quite so sophisticated and China has basically supplied an effective delivery system to the Pakistanis over the years. Whilst being interpreted as rash, this is considered to have helped stabilize the India-Pakistan situation to some extent. The economic aspect of the axis is somewhat weaker. Trade and investment has been apparent but this has been to a much lesser extent than the military ties established between the two. Mega-projects have begun in Pakistan with major Chinese investment, however, they have not always been successful. Communication projects such as the building of highways across the borders have also been accomplished.
It needs to be documented that the axis has not always led to a smooth relationship between China and Pakistan. China has been willing to support Pakistan diplomatically and militarily against Indian aggression, but this is not extended to the opposite direction. There are limits, and China has made clear its willingness to only go so far in supporting Pakistan. The issue of Islamic militancy also rears its ugly features. Whilst more of a secondary target to extremists, China has still become increasingly frustrated with Islamabad's inability to properly deal with the problem caused by militants in Xinjiang. Muslim Uighur militancy is a more 'low-intensity' issue compared to that waged in the West, but it is still clearly a grave concern to Beijing. You'll need to read more to discover the rest.
This is a very enjoyable and informative book. Small has clearly done his research here. He has also not restricted his work to simple bilateral relations and includes the areas where the United States, the Central Asian republics and also Afghanistan have been relevant to the relationship and also how they've influenced it too.
An excellent introduction to a fascinating topic.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Important Events Occuring Beneath the Headlines
By Loyd Eskildson
The Prologue quickly got my attention - author Small attributed the government in Afghanistan post 9/11 as installed by the Pakistani governmen, and asserted that despite the Taliban being led, armed and financed from Pakistan, the relationship with the U.S. remained strong. Ironically, Pakistan was seen as a crucial ally in our Global War on Terrorism, receiving billions in military aid and arms transfers. Meanwhile, China had built and mostly paid for a new Pakistani port at Gwadar, and there was hope of strong economic benefits from ties to China - eg. expansion of the Chashma nuclear power plants.
The Prologue open with the story of the kidnapping of Chinese massage workers by Red Mosque militants (terrorists) in Pakistan. The U.S. had pushed Pakistan for years to take action against these group, but not until Beijing intervened was serious action undertaken.
China's backing for Pakistan led to it providing that nation the materials needed to build an A-bomb. It is central to Beijing's plans for a network of ports, pipelines, roads and railways connecting the oil and gas fields of the Middle East to its mega-cities, and its coastline is becoming a staging post for China's take-off as a naval power. Pakistan's intelligence services are also seen as an asset to China's growing interests in the Islamic world, as well as to choking off support for militant Islamic activities within its own borders. And, an India forced to look nervously at its western neighbor is easier for Beijing to manage.
China has also become increasingly concerned with about prospects for Afghanistan after U.S. withdrawal., accentuated by fears over the worsening terrorist threat within China.
China is poised to build two 1,100 MW reactors ($5 billion each) with a new design less than 20 miles from downtown Karachi.
Shortly after the Osama bin Laden was killed by the Americans in 2011, the Pakistan government showed the Chinese the crashed U.S. stealth helicopter. Previously Pakistan did the same thing with U.S. cruise missiles. In return, China has provided technological assistance and materials for Pakistan's nuclear and missile programs. China has also told the Pakistanis from time to time, not to alienate the U.S. too much - to help constrain U.S.-India ties and benefit from more U.S. financial and military aid.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Five Stars
By P.S.
The ultimate book on one of the most important and fascinating relationships in international affairs today.
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