Global Silk Route Research Alliance
全球丝绸之路研究联盟
Independent Think Tank · Geopolitics · Belt & Road · Eurasia
Author
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.
11,387 pieces by this author
A photograph taken during a media tour organised by the French Catholic charity L'Oeuvre d'Orient shows media convoy vehicles driving past an Israeli flag fluttering along a road in the…
An aerial drone photo taken on July 19, 2026 shows a volcano in a national geopark in Xilingol League, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. (Photo by Wang Zheng/Xinhua) An…
The Gold and Gems Art Promotion Council of Pakistan (GGAPCP) has welcomed the federal government’s decision to establish the country’s first National Gems Authority, describing it as a historic and…
Students control a simulated robotic arm at an AI experience center of a primary school in north China's Tianjin, Sept. 4, 2025. (Xinhua/Zhao Zishuo) By the time the math class…
The administration will use an untested legal provision to put significant duties on Canadian exports, reigniting a clash with one of America’s biggest trading partners. The tariffs, which go into…
The China Coast Guard (CCG) has urged the Philippines to immediately stop infringements, provocations, and groundless hype after Philippine personnel from an illegally grounded vessel aggressively harassed a small CCG…
