Abstract

New Silk Road Initiative is known as Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), an initiative which connect the China to the world for establish a free trade zone. China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is one of the mega project of BRI that strengthen the relationship between Pakistan and China. It was started with the initial value of $46 billion for the development of transportation, infrastructure, and energy projects in Pakistan which has reached to $62 billion now. CPEC projects are going to open a new door of progress in Pakistan and also getting an attention of international media to highlight the opportunities and challenges of these ongoing projects. The aim of this study is to observe the international media reporting about the CPEC by examining the international news which was reported in the following international newspapers regarding CPEC, such as Dawn News (Pakistan), Global Times (China), Times of India (India) and BBC News (UK). News reported from January 2018 to June 2018 has the part of my study and tried to find out that the way of international media to shatter the news and what are the differences and similarities among the news reporting. The study has also discussed and clarified the legal territorial right of the regions of the CPEC, especially the Gilgit-Baltistan.

Highlights

  • Due to the continuous progress from the last few decades, China is a major focus of international media headlines and international affairs of the world in terms of political, economic and diplomatic domains of global power have scholarly garnered

  • Gilgit-Baltistan is a province of Pakistan and included the territory of Pakistan, and Pakistan has a complete control of its territory and has rights to develop the region

  • China Pakistan Economic Corridor China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is an important part of Chinese 21st Silk Road Initiative that would be do good to for Pakistan and China as well as the whole region

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Introduction

Due to the continuous progress from the last few decades, China is a major focus of international media headlines and international affairs of the world in terms of political, economic and diplomatic domains of global power have scholarly garnered. Researched about China’s inflate ties diffusion from corner to corner of South Asia (Chen, Banerjee, Toor, & Downie, 2014) This initiative is 2000 years old project such as “Silk Road” that is known as “One Belt One Road” which is integrating the many countries through CPEC. CPEC enhanced the value of Pakistan at regional level and in global politics It is one intersection Shackle in which China is hopeful for sustainable development and global integration. Chinese president Xi Jinping visit Pakistan in April 2015 and announced many mega projects These projects came into an outline with a massive initial investment of $46 billion in different projects, included railways track, energy, roads, oil and gas pipelines, fiber optic cables, industrial development and construction of Gwadar port. Pak-China clearly stated that the CPEC will not create any threat to other countries

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