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Book Review 2 –

The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia’s New Geopolitics

by Andrew Small

1 ____ The Beijing-Islamabad axis plays a central role in

Asia’s geopolitics, from India’s rise to the prospects for a

post-American Afghanistan, from the threat of nuclear

4 terrorism to the continent’s new map of mines, ports and

pipelines. China is Pakistan’s great economic hope and its most

trusted military partner; Pakistan is the battleground for

7 China’s encounters with Islamic militancy and the heart of its

efforts to counter-balance the emerging US-India partnership.

For decades, each country has been the other’s only

10 ‘all-weather’ friend. Yet the relationship is still little

understood. The wildest claims about it are widely believed,

while many of its most dramatic developments are hidden from

13 the public eye. This book sets out the recent history of

Sino-Pakistani ties and their ramifications for the West, for

India, for Afghanistan, and for Asia as a whole. It tells the

16 stories behind some of its most sensitive aspects, including

Beijing’s support for Pakistan’s nuclear program, China’s

dealings with the Taliban, and the Chinese military’s planning

19 for crises in Pakistan. It describes a relationship increasingly

shaped by Pakistan’s internal strife, and the dilemmas China

faces between the need for regional stability and the imperative

22 for strategic competition with India and the USA.

Source: <www.amazon.com>. Retrieved on: March 2, 2014.

Based on Book Review 2, judge the items right (C) or wrong (E).

Mutual interests between China and Pakistan include economic as well as military issues.