Despite worsening militancy in Pakistan, China will almost certainly continue its investment projects in the country to secure its strategic interests. But Pakistan's economic pressures and intensifying violence will prompt further delays to these projects' completion and exacerbate tensions between Islamabad and Beijing. On Aug. 13, the Majeed Brigade, a unit within the separatist Baloch Liberation Army specializing in suicide attacks, claimed responsibility for an attack involving firearms and explosives that targeted a guarded convoy of Chinese engineers working on the Gwadar Port project in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan. Amid the reported use of bulletproof vehicles, no Chinese casualties were reported in the attack, which the Chinese foreign ministry subsequently condemned, reiterating long-standing pleas for Pakistan to ''severely punish the perpetrators and take measures to ensure the personal safety of Chinese citizens.'' The attack came as China and Pakistan in recent weeks have commemorated the ten-year anniversary of the...
