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 shuttler Yin Menglu, reflecting on her hard work, and partner Liu Yutong clinched gold in women's doubles WH1-WH2 at the Paris Paralympics, avenging their Tokyo loss to Japan's Satomi…
Four weeks after ex-premier Sheikh Hasina fled Bangladesh by helicopter during a student-led uprising, analysts say she has become a diplomatic headache for her hosts in India. Hasina’s iron-fisted tenure…
Experts have warned that adopting protectionist measures to suppress China's advantages in the new energy sector and other fields will hinder green transition and global cooperation on climate change. The…
Adventure travelers have overlooked the high-altitude region of the Nangma Valley for years, but new group tours are flourishing. Heather Richardson is a freelance journalist based in Cape Town, South…
* Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony of the 2024 summit on Sept. 5 and deliver a keynote speech. * This year's summit will have four high-level…
Director Wang Jie (1st L) and cast members work at the shooting scene of the science film "Seek Out Natural Mysteries" in Daye, central China's Hubei Province, July 14, 2021.…