Pakistan, China trade to reach $10 bn: Zardari
February 1st, 2012 - 7:50 pm ICT by IANSIslamabad, Feb 1 (IANS) Pakistan and China are determined to increase their bilateral trade to $10 billion, President Asif Ali Zardari has said.
Both countries need to find new comfort zone for further collaboration in all dimensions, the Online news agency quoted Zardari as saying.
He described China’s growth as “the emergence of a new Japan”, the world’s largest economy, and added that all friends of China would be part of that rise.
Pakistan had established diplomatic relations with China at a time when the latter was not open in relations with the outside world, he said in an exclusive interview with the online edition of China’s People’s Daily.
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