Pakistan, where are you going?
The country has long viewed its ties to China as a strategic partnership, but recently it seems to be exploring a more independent course.
James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, a syndicated columnist and the author of the blog, The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer. A veteran, award-winning foreign correspondent whose career focused on ethnic and religious conflict, James focuses at RSIS on political and social change in the Middle East and North Africa, the impact of change in the Middle East and North Africa on Southeast and Central Asia and the nexus of sports, politics and society in the Middle East and North Africa and Asia.
The country has long viewed its ties to China as a strategic partnership, but recently it seems to be exploring a more independent course.
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