ISAS Briefs

China has spoken about its'deepening ties' with Pakistan while participating for the first time in the military parade on the Pakistani National Day in Islamabad on 23 March 2017. This is a significant sequel to the elevation of the Sino-Pakistani 'all-weather friendship' to 'allweather strategic cooperative partnership' in April 2015. Exactly a decade earlier, the two countries had indeed signed a Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Good-Neighbourly Relations. While the Treaty has remained a rarely-discoursed bond between the two countries, China's latest move signals a new regional dynamic which should be of interest, perhaps even concern, to Pakistan's neighbours, India and Afghanistan.