{"id":24973,"date":"2025-02-05T10:42:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T10:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=24973"},"modified":"2025-02-05T14:40:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T14:40:22","slug":"cpec-political-parties-consultative-mechanism-to-strengthen-bilateral-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=24973","title":{"rendered":"CPEC Political Parties Consultative Mechanism to strengthen bilateral ties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"707\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250205-WA0028-1024x707.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250205-WA0028-1024x707.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250205-WA0028-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250205-WA0028-768x531.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250205-WA0028-1536x1061.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250205-WA0028-2048x1415.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>President Asif Ali Zardari meets Chairman of the Standing Committee of National People\u2019s Congress, Zhao Leji<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beijing : President Asif Ali Zardari met with the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People\u2019s Congress of the People\u2019s Republic of China, Mr. Zhao Leji.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Asif Ali Zardari and Chairman Zhao underscored the time-tested and all-weather friendship between the two countries, which has continued to grow in depth and scope over the decades. They also underlined strategic mutual trust as the cornerstone of the China-Pakistan relationship and emphasized the importance of continued high-level exchanges to further deepen the ongoing practical cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two sides also discussed the high-quality development of CPEC 2.0, with a particular emphasis on promoting cooperation in science &amp; technology, renewable energy, infrastructure and agriculture sectors. They described CPEC as a shining example of people-centric development, with its focus on win-win cooperation, shared benefits and common prosperity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"970\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250205-WA0030-970x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250205-WA0030-970x1024.jpg 970w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250205-WA0030-284x300.jpg 284w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250205-WA0030-768x810.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250205-WA0030-1456x1536.jpg 1456w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250205-WA0030-1941x2048.jpg 1941w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The two sides discussed the opportunities to strengthen institutional linkages, including through parliamentary exchanges and participation in the CPEC Political Parties Joint Consultative Mechanism, to further solidify the bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"442\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250205-WA0062-1024x442.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250205-WA0062-1024x442.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250205-WA0062-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250205-WA0062-768x332.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250205-WA0062-1536x664.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250205-WA0062-2048x885.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Asif Ali Zardari meets Chairman of the Standing Committee of National People\u2019s Congress, Zhao Leji Beijing : President Asif Ali Zardari met with the Chairman of the Standing Committee&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":24988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[1691,134,1032,40],"class_list":["post-24973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-main-stories","tag-china-beijing","tag-china-embassy-islamabad","tag-china-pakistan-economic-corridor-cpec","tag-president-of-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24991,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24973\/revisions\/24991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}