'Beginning of new era': Delegation kicks off Pak-China dialogue
A Pakistani parliamentary delegation kicked off its nine-day visit to China with a dialogue held at a think-tank. The dialogue witnessed a constructive exchange of ideas between the two sides. Zheng Bijian, founding chairman of China Institute for Innovation and Development Strategy (CIIDS) and chairman of its academic committee said that “Before us is not the so-called ‘end of history’, but the beginning of a new era -- the community of shared future.” "Pakistan and China, side by side, are undergoing profound changes of a kind unseen in a century, which includes the peaceful rise of China, the decline of the West, and the advent of the community of a shared future," said Mushahid Hussain Sayed, Pakistani senator and head of the delegation. The dialogue has boosted, as both sides agreed, the all-weather friendship between China and Pakistan presents a good opportunity to deepen bilateral cooperation. Read Situationer: Is CPEC a ‘debt trap’ for Pakistan? Notably, the two nat...