…on China, India and regional trade in Foreign Policy
…on VOA ahead of the Xi-Trump summit
Interview on CPEC
“They don’t want to permanently entrench Pakistan’s exclusion from the NSG by admitting India without agreeing to a set of rules that would eventually admit Pakistan too,” says Andrew Small, subcontinental analyst at the German Marshall Fund and author of The China-Pakistan Axis.
“Pakistan has been the surprising pace-setter in Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road initiative, and over the last year Chinese intellectuals have taken to describing the country as China’s ‘one real ally’, with the relationship a ‘model to follow’…Standing up for Pakistan now is not only about the bilateral relationship but also about China’s reliability as a partner.”
Andrew Small, a scholar at the German Marshall Fund of the US, puts it well: “Every Asian economy has banked on Britain as its gateway to the EU, a phrase echoed publicly and privately by senior officials from all sides.”