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    How growing China ties can help Pakistan weather Trump’s tweet storm

    Jan 03, 2018 5 minutes

    American frustrations with Pakistan have run high for decades. So perhaps the newest thing about President Trump’s New Year’s Day blast against the South Asian problem partner was how it was delivered – in a tweet.

    “The United States has foolishly given Pakistan 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years” in exchange for “nothing but lies & deceit” and giving “safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan,” the president fumed. “No more!”

    On Tuesday the US announced it was withholding $255 million in planned military financing for Pakistan.

    There was also little new in the Pakistani government’s reaction to Mr. Trump’s three-line diatribe: an emergency national security cabinet meeting, a summoning of the US ambassador to Islamabad to the offices of the foreign minister, and a

    Pakistan fires backThe Afghanistan conundrumUS-India ties

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