Founder & Chair, Global Silk Route Research Alliance
Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad.
He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries. When he came home he set up the China Study Centre at NUST. He retired from there.
He writes about CPEC and the Belt and Road, and about what China's rise means for Pakistan. His articles run in Modern Diplomacy and on Think Tank Pakistan, and China Daily and China News Service have both quoted the work.
(下边有中文翻译请继续看到底。 谢谢。) In the wake of the recent India-Pakistan confrontation, Sharif’s timely diplomatic mission to four friendly nations—Turkey, Iran, Azerbaijan, and Tajikistan—has emerged as a significant step. 在最近的印巴对峙之后,谢里夫及时地对四个友好国家——土耳其、伊朗、阿塞拜疆和塔吉克斯坦——进行了外交访问,这是重要的一步。 image source:…
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