{
  "id": 2078040,
  "title": "Blaming China Will Not Fix Pakistan’s CPEC Failures",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/blaming-china-will-not-fix-pakistans-cpec-failures",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-20T05:30:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daily Times",
    "slug": "daily-times",
    "url": "https://dailytimes.com.pk/1540917/blaming-china-will-not-fix-pakistans-cpec-failures/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Former Federal Board of Revenue chairman Shabbar Zaidi has recently offered a particularly harsh assessment of Pakistan’s economic relationship with China. His criticism of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Chinese investment and Pakistan’s dependence on Chinese trade raises questions that deserve serious discussion. But the suggestion that Pakistan could somehow improve its economy by…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}