Compulsions of Sino-Pakistani Strategic Engagement in lieu of Security Constraints Engendered by the Anarchistic International Political System

In this article, an analysis is made that how and why Pakistan China relations have emerged in strategic partnership with altogether difference in history, culture and ideology. Pakistan China relations have been extraordinarily long lasting engagement. Many constraints have been taking place in the anarchic international power politics in the region of South Asia which drove Pakistan and China to have strategic convergence for the regional balance of power. This partnership found its ground from the Realist School of International Relations which postulates that the states’ internal character shaped by various factors, i.e. their history, culture and ideology, play a nominal role in their foreign policy choices; instead, the security constraints generated by the anarchic international political system leads states’ preferences. Pakistan and China had not anything incommoding their history, culture, religion or political system when they initiated formal diplomatic relations. Both the estates originated from ideologies that were entirely different and later linked themselves to the blocs which were opposite during the Cold War period. In spite of the fact that both states did not share past and were in entirely contrasting blocs, they effectively continued close relationships in order to counter the regional and international challenges