{"id":302548,"date":"2019-11-23T12:32:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T07:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=302548"},"modified":"2019-11-23T12:46:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T07:16:13","slug":"us-warns-pakistan-of-risks-from-china-infrastructure-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-warns-pakistan-of-risks-from-china-infrastructure-push\/","title":{"rendered":"US warns Pakistan of risks from China infrastructure push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States on Thursday warned Pakistan that it faced long-term economic damage with little return if China keeps pursuing its giant infrastructure push. <\/p>\n<p>The top US diplomat for South Asia said the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor &#8212; heralded as a game-changer by both Asian countries &#8212; would profit only Beijing and said that the United States offered a better model. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s clear, or it needs to be clear, that CPEC is not about aid,&#8221; said Alice Wells, the acting assistant secretary of state for South Asia. <\/p>\n<p>She noted that the multibillion-dollar initiative was driven by non-concessionary loans, with Chinese companies sending their own labor and material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States on Thursday warned Pakistan that it faced long-term economic damage with little return if China keeps pursuing its giant infrastructure push. The top US diplomat for South Asia said the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor &#8212; heralded as a game-changer by both Asian countries &#8212; would profit only Beijing and said that the United States offered a better model. &#8220;It&#8217;s clear, or it needs to be clear, that CPEC is not about aid,&#8221; said Alice Wells, the acting assistant secretary of state for South Asia. She noted that the multibillion-dollar initiative was driven by non-concessionary loans, with Chinese companies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,213,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}