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.
Chinese courts give equal protection to foreign parties' rights More foreign people choose Chinese courts to exercise jurisdiction as the country has strengthened efforts to equally protect parties from both…
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China to formulate, revise multiple laws for market economy: report China will formulate or revise multiple laws to strengthen its legal framework for the development of the socialist market economy…
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Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, attends a plenary meeting of the delegation of…
Students present flowers to their teachers at a primary school in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 6, 2025. Various activities are held across the country to mark the International…