China Undermines Biden's Democracy Summit by Forcing Pakistan Not to Attend
Beijing forced an embarrassing moment at the high-profile virtual summit of global democracies by forcing a consequential ally not to attend, sources say.
By Paul D. Shinkman | Dec. 10, 2021, at 12:20 p.m.
Pakistan’s last-minute decision not to attend President Joe Biden’s “Summit for Democracy” this week despite a months-long campaign for an invitation followed intense pressure from China that it back out, U.S. News has learned, amid fears in Beijing that the administration’s attempt to rally world powers undermines some of its most closely held goals.
Chinese officials told their Pakistani counterparts that participating in the two-day virtual summit this week would be detrimental to their increasingly interconnected relations, particularly since Taiwan – which Beijing considers a renegade province of the mainland – was also invited to participate, a source familiar with China’s decision-making says on the condition of anonymity.
Though China has prioritized its economic and military partnership with Pakistan in recent years as a tool to effect its broader plans in Asia, Beijing ultimately considered its influence over Islamabad as the most powerful instrument it could wield to try to undermine Biden’s summit and demonstrate its outrage over it.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-12-10/china-undermines-bidens-democracy-summit-by-forcing-pakistan-not-to-attend
So basically Pakistan likes to be blackmailed by another country that is a dictatorship and Pakistan is okay with China telling them what to do, and that China for the record is basically putting a sect of Muslims in concentration camps and they Pakistan are good with that just so long as they get roads and bridges built by chinese money......
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