With the ongoing Ukraine conflict in the backdrop, the People s Republic of China s (PRC) warming relationship with Russia is usually being bracketed as the emerging axis. But it is Pakistan that the Chinese are really the closest to. To describe the bilateral relationship, China and Pakistan call each other “iron brothers”.
The CPEC, which connects Gwadar Port in Pakistan's Balochistan with China's Xinjiang province, is opposed by India as it is being laid through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir