The geographical end point of the CPEC is the port of Gwadar on Pakistan’s southwest coast, close to the Iran-Pakistan border. In 2017, China took over a forty-year lease for the construction of a deepwater port, a three-hundred-megawatt coal-fired power plant, and an associated special economic zone. The Gwadar port—together with Pakistan’s existing ports of Karachi and Bin Qasim—are all likely to become dual use, serving both the Chinese navy and commercial purposes. Other port developments that are underway as part of the Maritime Silk Road—extending from the South China Sea across the
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