This book explores the political economy of China-Pakistan economic corridor, a major pilot project for China's One Belt, One Road initiatives. Pakistan will provide China with not only a pathway access to the Indian Ocean, Middle East and Africa, but also vital connections to the Trans-Asia railway network that links Southeast Asia, South Asia and West Asia. This book analyzes how domestic factors in Pakistan will affect China's $46 billion investments. It will be of interest to scholars, policymakers, and journalists.

Historicizes Sino-Pak affairs Gives a valuable case study of One Belt One Road policies in practice Explores the future of Central Asia as a region

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Bai Gao is Professor of Sociology at Duke University. His research areas include economic sociology, comparative-historical sociology, international political economy, and comparative political economy. Gao is the author of Economic Ideology and Japanese Industrial Policy: Developmentalism from 1931 to 1965, Japan's Economic Dilemma: The Institutional Origins of Prosperity and Stagnation, and Western Social Sciences and Japanese Studies. He is also an editor for High-Speed Rail: An Analysis of the Chinese Innovation System, and China-Europe Freight Trains: State Building and Market Building.

Zhihong Zhen is Professor of School of Sociology and Political Science in Shanghai University, Director of the Center for International Political Economy of Shanghai University, Director of the Institute of Gerontology of Shanghai University, and Secretary-General of Economics Sociology Committee of Chinese Sociology Association. His main research area include economic sociology, population aging, and international political economy.

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Chapter I: The Impact of International Relations on CPEC.- Chapter II: The Impact of Pakistan Political System on CPEC.- Chapter III: Will Institutional Risks Hinder China's Direct Investment in Pakistan? On the Perspective of Bilateral Political Relations.- Chapter IV: Financial System and the Stand and Fall of CPEC: from the perspective of the Baloch nationalist movement.- Chapter V: Research on Industrial Spatial Distribution of CPEC.- Chapter VI: Analysis on the Spatial Evolution of Pakistan Logistics Channel Construction.- Chapter VII: NGOs in Pakistan.- Chapter VIII: Terrorism, Poverty and Road Construction: the Logic of Infrastructure and Its Risk Analysis in the Economic Corridor of China.- Chapter IX: Xinjiang in the Construction of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.- Chapter X: The Experiences of Supporting Xinjiang and Its Inspirations on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.