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.
11,534 pieces by this author
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（下边有中文翻译请继续看到底。 谢谢。） On May 21 this year, Pakistan and China will mark the 75th anniversary of the establishment of their formal diplomatic relations—a milestone that few bilateral relationships in the…
Villagers chat at a sweet tea house in Zimgag Village of Chamco Township, in Dingri County of Xigaze City, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, on Jan. 5, 2026. (Xinhua/Jiang Fan)…
