{"id":363004,"date":"2020-07-16T11:03:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T05:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=363004"},"modified":"2020-07-16T11:03:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T05:33:29","slug":"a-flurry-of-infrastructure-cheques-from-china-put-pakistan-back-in-the-belt-and-road-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/a-flurry-of-infrastructure-cheques-from-china-put-pakistan-back-in-the-belt-and-road-game\/","title":{"rendered":"A flurry of infrastructure cheques from China put Pakistan back in the Belt and Road game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s Belt and Road program has found new life in Pakistan with $11 billion worth of projects signed in the last month, driven by a former lieutenant general who has reinvigorated the infrastructure plan that\u2019s been languishing since Prime Minister Imran Khan took office two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The nations signed deals on June 25 and July 6 for two hydro-power generation projects costing $3.9 billion, and another to revamp the South Asian nation\u2019s colonial-era railways for $7.2 billion &#8212; the most expensive Chinese project yet in Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s Belt and Road program has found new life in Pakistan with $11 billion worth of projects signed in the last month, driven by a former lieutenant general who has reinvigorated the infrastructure plan that\u2019s been languishing since Prime Minister Imran Khan took office two years ago. The nations signed deals on June 25 and July 6 for two hydro-power generation projects costing $3.9 billion, and another to revamp the South Asian nation\u2019s colonial-era railways for $7.2 billion &#8212; the most expensive Chinese project yet in Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,193,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363004","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}