Beijing correspondent - Jean-François Huchet, Director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China (CEFC) in Hong Kong. Mr. Huchet co-led the work in 2010 and India in collectifChina Central Asia, A New Great Game in English published by Editions Palgrave Macmillan. (China and India in Central Asia: the new Great Game).
Cyclical manner, we can say that the Pakistanis certainly play China against the United States, but they can not necessarily go away. These are signals sent to the Americans to say, "beware, if you continue, you will fall into the arms of China." Pakistan is, in every way, a country that plays its instability, its power to decomposition, like North Korea.
He needs to play it with the great powers, primarily the United States ... So I do not think that Pakistan can afford a stronger rebalancing in favor of China. The Chinese also know that part of the dirty work is done by Americans in the region. We can not imagine China having to engage in Afghanistan.
India is never far from the Sino-Pakistani relationship. Realigning India-United States, with the agreement reached in the civil nuclear worries Pakistanis in 2009. The resurgence of India in the rest of Central Asia is another element that makes them stick together with their Chinese ally.
But how far? During the war in East Pakistan in 1971, the Pakistanis have sought help from the Chinese. They have criticized the Indian intervention in the future Bangladesh, but have never fired a shot. The Chinese are willing to help, they are certainly concerned also the realignment of Pakistan with the United States since the war against terror.
But they look first and foremost their own strategic interests. We talk a lot, for example, the strategy of "string of pearls" pursued by China in the Indian Ocean, including the Pakistani port of Gwadar in Baluchistan, is a component. The Chinese certainly have funded and built. They have the possibility of landing, there are many exchanges on the trading plan, but there is no military base in China.
The Pakistanis have a concern about sovereignty. I do not think they would let the Chinese go much further than they are today. Interview by Brice Pedroletti 
Cyclical manner, we can say that the Pakistanis certainly play China against the United States, but they can not necessarily go away. These are signals sent to the Americans to say, "beware, if you continue, you will fall into the arms of China." Pakistan is, in every way, a country that plays its instability, its power to decomposition, like North Korea.
He needs to play it with the great powers, primarily the United States ... So I do not think that Pakistan can afford a stronger rebalancing in favor of China. The Chinese also know that part of the dirty work is done by Americans in the region. We can not imagine China having to engage in Afghanistan.
India is never far from the Sino-Pakistani relationship. Realigning India-United States, with the agreement reached in the civil nuclear worries Pakistanis in 2009. The resurgence of India in the rest of Central Asia is another element that makes them stick together with their Chinese ally.
But how far? During the war in East Pakistan in 1971, the Pakistanis have sought help from the Chinese. They have criticized the Indian intervention in the future Bangladesh, but have never fired a shot. The Chinese are willing to help, they are certainly concerned also the realignment of Pakistan with the United States since the war against terror.
But they look first and foremost their own strategic interests. We talk a lot, for example, the strategy of "string of pearls" pursued by China in the Indian Ocean, including the Pakistani port of Gwadar in Baluchistan, is a component. The Chinese certainly have funded and built. They have the possibility of landing, there are many exchanges on the trading plan, but there is no military base in China.
The Pakistanis have a concern about sovereignty. I do not think they would let the Chinese go much further than they are today. Interview by Brice Pedroletti
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