Dancing with Shackle: Explaining the Failure in Making the Gwardar Port a Focal Point of Global Supply Chain Based on Fieldwork

• In Event: Global Development in Comparison: Cases from across East and South East Asia

Brief Overview

This paper is based upon 3-year field research in Pakistan. It offers new data regarding China's management of a key infrastructure projects along the Belt and Road Initiative: the Gwardar Port. This paper explains why China's BRI may underdeliver.

Authors

• Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Texas A&M

• Alexander Wang, Shanghai International Studies University