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Pakistan’s Road to China

The death of Osama bin Laden has fueled not only Western suspicion of Pakistan, but also growing popular demands in Pakistan for a major foreign-policy reorientation. Unless the West acts quickly, Bin Laden’s death is likely to result in a major realignment of world politics, driven in part by Pakistan’s move from the US strategic orbit to that of China.

ISLAMABAD – Large events sometimes have unintended strategic consequences. This is turning out to be the case following the killing of Osama bin Laden in a compound in Abbottabad, a military-dominated town near Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital.

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