Editor's Note.

Foreign Minister of Pakistan Bilawal Bhutto embarked on his maiden visit to China at the invitation of Wang Yi, State Councilor of China. Both leaders met in the city of Guangzhou and discussed on pushing relations to new heights and building a closer community for a shared China-Pakistan future in the new significant prosperous era. The visit coincides with the celebration of 71st anniversary of Pakistan-China all weather strategic iron clad friendship. Both sides discussed and built consensus on deepening strong economic engagement, trade, investment and industrialization, CPEC cooperation in the ever changing regional and global changing political and strategic milieu. China and Pakistan enjoy a weather strategic partnership that withstood the test of times based on close strategic communications between the countries. Bilawal Bhutto, the incumbent foreign minister of Pakistan, has his own personal and political inclination as a result of his own glorious historic family traditions tied with Pakistan's long-term relations with China. Prior to this visit, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif had a telephonic conversation with Premier Li Keqiang.

These exchanges reflect that both sides are closer to cooperate and instantly communicate on challenges and issues. The significance of this visit lies in the context of the meeting. Islamabad has a new government looking forward to closely working with China. CPEC is the second most important phase where the new initiatives and industrialization process is in the robust phase, changing American stance towards Pakistan, the rise of terrorism incidents in Pakistan with attacks on Chinese nationals, the Ukraine conflict in Eurasia, security against traditional and non-traditional threats are rising with growing global friction of big powers. After a session of the SCO Heads of State Council in September 2021, Uzbekistan assumed the chairmanship of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. This is the fourth time the country has assumed the chairmanship of the organization after 2004, 2010, and then 2016. In 2022, under its chairmanship of the SCO, Uzbekistan has planned to host 80 international events and set up programs to improve regional trade, and increase member nations' security cooperation. In May, the acting Foreign Minister of Uzbekistan, Vladimir Norov, met with the Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Zhang Ming, in Tashkent where the two parties noted the successful...

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