Terrorists Target China-Pakistan Projects & the US Role Backing Separatists (TheNewAtlas)

- China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is being countered by the United States not through competing infrastructure projects but through a global-spanning campaign of subversion, sabotage, and terrorism;

- The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has been hit particularly hard by US-backed terrorism for years including open US government efforts to carve off Baluchistan province from Pakistan to deny CPEC a terminal port at Gwadar;

- Between 2011-2012 US government officials openly called for an “independent” Baluchistan while pumping money through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) into opposition groups including media and so-called “human rights” organizations;

- US-backed separatists have since regularly targeted Chinese engineers and their Pakistani counterparts and Pakistani security with armed violence;

- US-backed separatists have also targeted the Chinese ambassador to Pakistan on at least one occasion;

- Because the US cannot directly attack China’s BRI worldwide, it does through through proxies and is yet another illustration of the role terrorism plays in advancing US foreign policy objectives and the threat the US poses to international peace, prosperity, and stability;



One issue with Brian's analysis. Not everything that China is doing is without problems or political motive. They are not altruistic do-gooders. Not every criticism of what they are doing is false. 

One can be against the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), that China uses to assert economic dominance over its neighbours (via debt traps), and ALSO be against the US using proxy armies to kill people in order to stop BRI projects.

Historically the US, and Western global finance, have been the ones to saddle countries with dept trap schemes in order to loot the wealth of poor countries thereby purchasing/looting resources and national assets.

What is happening now is a shift to China, that is delivering projects with similar hidden, asset seizing, costs. The fact is that the US, and its corporations, have become dishonest brokers on the world stage, that they have deindustrialised, and have caused this shift towards China. The only thing the US has left is its military, intelligence and terrorist networks.

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, April 5, 2024.]