Paper short abstract:

China's increasing influence in international relatios by building strong infrastructural ties with many countries is one of the key elements in development studies today. Pakistan's Gwadar port is one of the main entrance for china to achieve it's ambitions through the belt and road initiative.

Paper long abstract:

China has become a major player in international sphere since the country’s unique growth in recent decades took place. The china’s communist party under the leadership of Xi Jinping, started to eliminate the so called “national humiliation age” between mid 19th and 20th century. Meanwhile, china sees itself as a rising power who wants a resurrection of national pride, others specially western democracies observe china as a country with predatory manners. The Belt and Road Initiative is the most controversial plan that had provoked the hesitancy among many countries about China’s actual tendency. This mammoth infrastructural plan starts from the east costs of china to the city of Duisburg in Germany into the west and it contains more than 60 countries. President Xi announced this initiative formally in 2013 and china is willing to complete it by 2049. However there is a lot of room for further surveys, this article will put it’s focus on china-Pakistan relations and the geopolitical importance of Pakistan’s Gwadar port in conducting the whole project. Pakistan as a developing country has a substantial petition for foreign investments and also engineering experts to build it’s vital infrastructures along the country. In this case Gwadar port will have an enormous impact on both china and Pakistan’s strategic role regionally and globally.

Key words: Belt and Road Initiative, Bilateral cooperation, Foreign investment, Gwadar port