In this new episode of the webcast / podcast series produced by the Belt and Road Institute in Sweden (BRIX), Hussein Askary interviews political economist Shakeel Ramay, director of the China Center at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) of Pakistan to explore the facts about the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Shakeel Ramay provides in-depth information about the genesis of the CPEC, its development, importance for Pakistan’s socio-economic development, and sheds light on the fallacies of the “debt-trap” narrative.
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Askary’s speech at special CPEC webinar in Pakistan, December 2020.