Time Tested China-Pakistan Friendship.

Byline: Dr. Wang Xu

Recently, the opposition tabled a no-trust motion against the government led by Prime Minister Imran Khan in the National Assembly. President Dr. Arif Alvi dissolved the National Assembly, and Pakistan's political uncertainty is growing. Pakistan is the only all-weather strategic cooperative partner of China. The political instability in Pakistan is always a cause for concern. However, with the time-honored history and solid foundation of friendship, and having just celebrated the 70th anniversary of the establishment of formal diplomatic ties, the two countries are confident enough to maintain and shape the steady development of bilateral ties. The ties between the two have been friendly for generations, regardless of the international and domestic political changes. Chinese President Xi Jinping described China and Pakistan as good brothers and partners sharing a special friendship. Throughout history, no matter how international and regional situations change, China and Pakistan have always stood

by each other, sharing joy and sorrow, understanding and supporting each other's core interests.

This is because the two countries have a high degree of consistency in safeguarding their joint and regional common development and security interests. During the Cold War, China and Pakistan supported each other to break the geo-containment of the superpower and worked together in safeguarding regional peace and stability in South Asia. Two countries cooperated to promote the normalization of China-U.S. relations, which changed the global landscape of the Cold War in one stroke. Since the turn of the century, both countries have supported each other in formulating and implementing counter-terrorism strategies following their respective national conditions and have jointly opposed "double standards" and "stigmatization" in counter-terrorism by international and regional hegemonism. In the past decade, the U.S. adjusted its global strategy to promote great power competition in the name of "Asia-Pacific Rebalancing" and "Indo-Pacific strategy" and even hastily withdrew its troops from Afghanistan, disregarding the ground reality resulting in political, economic, security and humanitarian crises.

As neighbors of Afghanistan, China and Pakistan have always supported the political settlement on the Afghan issue, considering the historical and practical factors of Afghanistan, and have been cooperating to promote the post-withdrawal era...