China has entered into an agreement to build a 1.2GW nuclear power plant worth $4.8bn, in Pakistan, CNN reported.

The cash-strapped country, which is struggling to save itself from a balance of payments crisis, thanked China for offering a discount of $100m and for not rescheduling the costs despite the deferment of the project, originally set to begin two years earlier in 2021.

    • jackmarxist [any]
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      1 year ago

      Pakistan is in a fucked up economic position and have pivoted to the west again after Imran Khan was removed from office and arrested.

      I really doubt Pakistans ability to pay for it. China will probably end up giving more discounts to them.

      • CommCat [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        Pakistan is China's biggest ally in the region, too bad its Elites are so corrupt and most in the pockets of the US. Most of their Generals have been trained in the US. More result of the horrible Sino-Soviet, just imagine no Sino-Soviet Split and USSR-China-India were aligned...

    • chilemango [they/them, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      posadist-nuke would be a potential unimaginably high cost in one of the most likely countries in the world to have a land war, it’s nice to have nuclear power but if this current war has taught us anything nuclear power plants will not be kept out of a war for safety reasons

      not advocating for them not to have it, but it’s a real big picture concern