Pakistan: senior officers sanctioned “for example” after an attack against Chinese engineers. Beijing has invested billions of dollars in recent years in Pakistan, its closest ally in the region.
Islamabad struggles to guarantee the security of Chinese personnel and interests on its soil, where they are often targeted. Islamabad continues to assert that armed groups, such as the Pakistani Taliban Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), carry out planned attacks from Afghan soil, via a very porous border.