In this public seminar, Andrew Small explains the ramifications of
Sino-Pakistani ties for the West, for India, for Afghanistan and for
Asia as a whole. He explores some of the relationship's most sensitive
aspects, including Beijing's support for Pakistan's nuclear program,
China's dealings with the Taliban, and the Chinese military's planning
for crises in Pakistan. From China's involvement in South Asia's
wars to the Obama administration's efforts to secure Chinese
cooperation in stabilising the region, he traces the dilemmas Beijing
increasingly faces between pursuing its strategic rivalry with India and
the United States, and the imperative to address a terrorist threat
that has become one of the gravest dangers to China's internal
stability. Mr Small also examines China's ambitious new economic plans
for Pakistan, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, and what they mean
for Beijing's ambitious ‘One Belt and One Road’ initiative. Andrew
Small is a Senior Transatlantic Fellow with the German Marshall Fund's
(GMF) Asia program, which he established in 2006. His research focuses
on US-China relations, Europe-China relations, Chinese policy in South
Asia, and broader developments in China's foreign and economic policy.
Mr Small was based in GMF’s Brussels office for five years, and worked
before that as the director of the Foreign Policy Centre's Beijing
office, as a visiting fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences,
and an Empowering Students Universally (ESU) scholar in the office of
Senator Edward M Kennedy. His articles and papers have been published in
The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy andthe Washington
Quarterly, as well as many other journals, magazines and newspapers. Mr
Small is the author of the book The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia’s New
Geopolitics published with Hurst / Oxford University Press in 2015. He
was educated at Balliol College, University of Oxford. Andrew Small is visiting Australia as a guest of the ANU National Security College.
