younger generations to perform their due role in strengthening friendship between Pakistan and China

Feb 22: Noted analyst and foreign policy expert, Major-General (Rtd) Jamshed Ayaz Khan has said that Pakistan is lucky to have best friends like China and urged the younger generations to perform their due role in strengthening friendship between Pakistan and China.

He was delivering a lecture on “The rise of China and its regional security and strategic implications” organized by the Area Study Centre Far East and South East Asia, University of Sindh on Monday.

He said that the people of china are very sincere, close friends and love the people of Pakistan and added that China’s economic growth can not be ignored in the historical perspective.

He said that today in most countries of the world, the products of China are available and it has developed its markets slowly and gradually. He said that history of power politics in Asia during the past quarter of a century is a tale of the decline of two powers i.e. Russia and Japan, the gradual rise of third (China) and the resurgence of a fourth USA.

He said that china’s rise was an important feature of world politics in the late 20th century and added that China is apprehensive about the predominance of US and would prefer a multipolar world.

The expert said that China’s growing confidence in its capability of shaping the environment will have profound affect on China’s diplomatic conduct in the coming years and added that a more self confident China will be more responsible with its growing strength.
He said that China does not pose a global threat despite its growing might. He said that China has maintained cordial relationship with all ASEAN countries.

He said that ASEAN Countries and China have greatly minimized the danger of a conflict while China’s recent mediation during the squabble between Thailand and Cambodia underscored ASEAN Countries mutual confidence in China.

Dr. Rafia Ahmed Shaikh Pro Vice Chancellor of the University who presided over the event said that China throughout most of its history has been a peace loving nation which has not exhibited aggressive designs towards other nations.

She said that fall of the Soviet Union ushered in a new era of unipolar world dominated by the United States. She said that this has led to an imbalance in world relationships and has placed an unusually heavy burden on the shoulders of US to play world policeman.

She said that it is just not possible for any one country, no matter how powerful, to always control and maintain world affairs according to its own thinking and added that the vacuum naturally, needs to be filled.

Director Area Study Centre, Dr Parveen Shah speaking on the occasion said that rapid rise of China since 1990 has constituted a most dynamic development in East Asia. She said that rise of China as an economic