2011-04-23 (China Military News cited from pakistanpatriot.com) -- Maybe Sam Huntington was right. The Confucian and Muslim Civilizations will be cooperating with each other. The transactional relationship between Washington and Islamabad is coming to an end. While US-Pakistani transactional relations are fraying at both ends, the opposite is true of Sino-Pakistani relations.

Pakistan supported China when she was recognized only by Albania, and built the bridge to the USA. This fact cannot be forgotten by the Chinese who mention it in every summit and mentioned it in this summit also.

The production of AWACs, P-22 frigates, Al-Khalid as well as the JF-Thunder fighter has enabled Pakistan self-sufficiency in defense. Pakistan also has purchased billions of Dollars F-16s and other American arms…something Lenin could not have done. French submarines and German technology also is helping grow the local defense production that is now gearing up for export. Billions of Dollars of arms are now being exported which were showcased in the IDEAS exhibition.

There is renewed energy to pace up the development of Gwadar Port to provide China a shorter route and easy excess to world markets to dispatch its goods to Europe and America.

"The Gwadar port project will transform Pakistan's Navy into a force that can rival regional navies. The government of Pakistan has designated the port area as a "sensitive defense zone." The Gwadar port will rank among the world's largest deep-sea ports. The port provides China a strategic foothold in the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean.

Located at the entrance of the Persian Gulf and about 460 kms from Karachi, Gwadar has had immense Geostrategic significance on many accounts. The continued unstable regional environment in the Persian Gulf in particular as a result of the Iran/Iraq war, the Gulf war and the emergence of the new Central Asian States has added to this importance. Considering the Geo-economic imperative of the regional changes, the ADB's Ports Master Plan studies considered an alternate to the Persian Gulf Ports to capture the transit trade of the Central Asian Republic (CAR) as well as the trans-shipment trade of the region.