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China will display its determination to bolster ties with Pakistan this week
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Zardari's visit, starting on Tuesday, appears meant to show that Beijing wants to ensure that Islamabad stays an "all-weather friend" while it frets about U.S. influence on its doorstep from India to Afghanistan.
He will meet President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao for talks that may open the way to more Chinese investment in Pakistan, and possibly firm up Beijing's commitment to expanding the Chashma nuclear power complex in Punjab province.
Beijing has been preparing to build two new reactors at Chashma, where it has already built one and is finishing another, despite the qualms of Washington, New Delhi and other capitals.
China's willingness to risk foreign ire over the nuclear expansion shows its intensified commitment to Pakistan, said Andrew Small, a fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, who has studied China's ties with Pakistan.
"For China
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Chinese experts privately described the Chashma deal as a "counter-weight" to the partnership between India and the United States, who signed a nuclear power pact in 2008 that was dogged by controversy
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"With rising India, and the India-U.S. factor
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