Kuang-Ho Yeh and Guihua Ni
vol. XII(1)
Pages 26-50
Abstract: After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, friendly bilateral
relations between China and Pakistan have become increasingly close in various fields
following China’s peaceful rise. The space cooperation that started after the end of the
Cold War is a sign of the gradual progress of the relationship between the two
countries to the current all-weather strategic cooperative partnership. With China’s
assistance, Pakistan has achieved significant milestones in the space field. Pakistan is
also a key node in China’s strategy to expand international space cooperation. After
the 2010s, China-Pakistan space cooperation was integrated with the construction of
the Space Silk Road and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor under the framework
of the Belt and Road Initiative, becoming a model for space cooperation specifically
promoting the social and economic development of developing countries. This paper
outlines the complete picture of China-Pakistan space cooperation under the
evolutionary logic and chronological context of "ideological-materialization" two-way
mutual construction, so as to reasonably predict the prospects of China-Pakistan space
cooperation.
Keywords: China-Pakistan Space Cooperation, Space Diplomacy, Space Silk Road,
Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization.
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