Introduction: The All-Weather Friendship Gets an Economic Engine For decades, Pakistan and China have touted their relationship as an “all-weather” friendship – a bond resilient through geopolitical storms. In recent years, that diplomatic cliché has taken concrete form in the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a sprawling set of infrastructure and investment projects straddling the breadth … Continue reading The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor: A New “Silk Road” or a New Dependency?