US targets proliferation, but sanctions fired at Pakistan-China missile programme may go wide

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Less clear, though, is how much impact sanctions, which have proved largely ineffective in the past, will actually have on the China-Pakistan missile relationship. Following new sanctions on the National Development Complex, the military conglomerate at the heart of Pakistan’s missile programme, it is clear that the US is going to war against the proliferation of technologies, which pose a strategic threat to it. The Tomahawk theft had no consequences for either Pakistan or China, but the rise of a new Cold War is changing global equations. Washington DC: Eleven weeks after clouds of dust rose from the Baluchistan desert—signalling...