Comments on: Football, oil, and roads to influence https://www.policyforum.net/football-oil-roads-influence/ The APPS Policy Forum a public policy website devoted to Asia and the Pacific. Mon, 30 Apr 2018 02:21:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 By: Ali Ahsan https://www.policyforum.net/football-oil-roads-influence/#comment-7851 Sun, 13 Nov 2016 16:06:55 +0000 http://www.policyforum.net/?p=14202#comment-7851 OBOR’s most critical component will arguably be the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

It is rather surprising to see almost zero interest in football or any sport from Chinese in Pakistan to make part of CPEC the way it has used football for other OBOR partners in Eurasia and beyond.

Then again the Pakistan Football Federation has been in a political crisis since June 2015 due to disputed elections and all nationwide football is suspended until FIFA decides to grow a pair and intervene.

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