Episode 93: How China and Pakistan Negotiate

Since its official launch in April 2015, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is the "flagship project" under Chinese President Xi Jinping's Belt and Road Initiative. While there has been much discussion on the geopolitical implications of this project, very little attention has been paid to how the two countries negotiate the terms of the CPEC deal. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace recently published a paper on this subject authored by Prof Katharine Adeney, Director of the University of Nottingham, Asia Research Institute and Non Resident Senior Fellow at ISAS along with Dr Filippo Boni, lecturer in Politics and International studies at The Open University in the UK and Research Fellow in the European Research Council–funded project REDEFINE. They are in conversation with Dr Diego Maiorano, Research Fellow at ISAS.