Thread by @BenjaminNorton, This should be getting more attention: A terrorist attack in Pakistan's Balochistan [...]

This should be getting more attention: A terrorist attack in Pakistan's Balochistan province targeted the hotel where China's ambassador was staying, narrowly missing him.

Extremists have also been attacking Chinese infrastructure projects in Pakistan https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-22/pakistan-quetta-bombing-chinese-ambassador-ttp-taliban/100086906

Pakistan bombing narrowly misses Chinese ambassador

A powerful bomb explodes in the parking area of a luxury hotel in the south-western Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least four people and wounding at least 11 others.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-22/pakistan-quetta-bombing-chinese-ambassador-ttp-taliban/100086906

Some American neocons (like US Army officer Ralph Peters, who drew this map) fantasize about carving up West/South Asia on ethnosectarian lines, making an independent Balochistan

As Pakistan grows closer to China, Balochi separatists are launching more attacks on infrastructure

The multibillion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a key part of the Belt and Road Initiative, transforming trade by linking China's Xinjiang province with Pakistan's southern Gwadar port.

This has made it a top target of terrorist attacks https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3010258/baloch-versus-beijing-how-chinese-investment-pakistan-has

Why Chinese-funded projects are a target for Pakistani separatists

CPEC is part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative but runs through Balochistan, which is riven by Islamist, sectarian, and separatist insurgencies.

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3010258/baloch-versus-beijing-how-chinese-investment-pakistan-has

In addition to US neoconservatives fantasizing about carving up South Asia on ethnosectarian lines, the liberal imperialists at the New York Times have published maps proposing the same kind of neocolonial division of West Asia
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/29/sunday-review/how-5-countries-could-become-14.html

In 2012, far-right Republican Congressmen Steve King and Dana Rohrabacher introduced a bill to support an independent Balochistan breaking away from Pakistan.

(In 2017 Rohrabacher applauded ISIS' attack on Iran and called for giving ISIS (more) support)
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hconres104/summary

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