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US-Pak nuke deal will further complicate South Asian security, says Chinese expert | The security situation in South Asia could get further complicated if the US agrees to have a civilian nuclear deal with Pakistan, according to experts.
Pakistan and the US are set to hold their first high-level strategic dialogue
this week in Washington, co-chaired by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and
Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi. Pakistan wants a nuclear deal
with the US on the lines of Indo-US civil nuke deal, the China Daily reports.
The dialogue, however, is unlikely to result in any substantive progress on the
nuclear deal between the two sides, and the deal would only undermine relations
between the US and India, pushing India to seek more cooperation from Russia,
said Hu Shisheng, a scholar of South Asia studies at the China Institutes of
Contemporary
International Relations. Hu said there were still two key hurdles in the nuclear
cooperation between the US and India, the US has refused to transfer nuclear
technology
to India and has not given India the right to reprocess nuclear waste. "If the
US makes another exception for Pakistan, India will be irritated, and that will
likely derail the US-India relationship. India then is likely to turn to Russia
for more (assistance), which the US doesn't want to see (happen)," the China Daily
quoted Hu, as saying. If a civil nuclear pact is reached between Pakistan and
the US, China would face a little less pressure in responding to Pakistan's requests
for nuclear cooperation, he said. Yet, there will be more problems as far as the
security situation in South Asia is concerned, he said. China-Pakistan ties have
been a big concern for India. "Where will China-India relations go if China
cooperates
with Pakistan in civil nuclear deals?" Hu queried. "The situation is already
complicated
in South Asia. The US-Pakistan (likely) pact will only introduce more complexities,"
Hu concluded. |
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