{"id":63260,"date":"2026-05-25T16:33:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/?p=63260"},"modified":"2026-05-25T16:33:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:33:30","slug":"sharif-and-xi-vow-to-elevate-all-weather-ties-to-new-strategic-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/2026\/05\/25\/sharif-and-xi-vow-to-elevate-all-weather-ties-to-new-strategic-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharif and Xi Vow to Elevate &#8220;All-Weather&#8221; Ties to New Strategic Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spokesman Report<\/p>\n<p>BEIJING:Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met with President Xi Jinping in Beijing, marking the 75th anniversary of Pakistan-China diplomatic relations. Both leaders agreed to enhance their historical partnership, transforming it into a new phase of strategic, practical, and future-oriented cooperation. The meeting, attended by high-level Pakistani officials including the Army Chief, reaffirmed the &#8220;All-Weather Strategic Cooperative Partnership&#8221; as central to Pakistan&#8217;s foreign policy. Prime Minister Sharif lauded the &#8220;iron-clad friendship&#8221; and its growing significance in the current global landscape. He reiterated Pakistan&#8217;s steadfast support for China on key issues like the One China Principle and acknowledged China&#8217;s consistent backing for Pakistan&#8217;s sovereignty, territorial integrity, and economic stability. Sharif also admired President Xi&#8217;s leadership in Zhejiang Province and his role in China&#8217;s rise as a global power. He commended China&#8217;s support for regional peace, endorsing Xi&#8217;s four-point proposal, and highlighted their bilateral cooperation as a stabilizing force. The Pakistani Prime Minister expressed support for Xi&#8217;s global initiatives, including the Belt and Road Initiative, and reaffirmed Pakistan&#8217;s commitment to a Community with a Shared Future for Humanity. He pledged to deepen strategic coordination, advance the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) with a focus on high-quality development, and align China&#8217;s 15th Five-Year Plan with Pakistan&#8217;s &#8220;Uraan Pakistan&#8221; initiative. This aims to boost cooperation in industrialization, connectivity, science and technology, agriculture, clean energy, and digital transformation. The inclusion of Pakistani astronauts in China&#8217;s space program was cited as an example of this strengthening cooperation. President Xi Jinping described the China-Pakistan friendship as &#8220;unbreakable,&#8221; built on mutual understanding and trust. He emphasized that China will always prioritize its relationship with Pakistan, irrespective of international shifts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spokesman Report BEIJING:Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met with President Xi Jinping in Beijing, marking the 75th anniversary of Pakistan-China diplomatic relations. Both leaders agreed to enhance their historical partnership, transforming it into a new phase of strategic, practical, and future-oriented cooperation. The meeting, attended by high-level Pakistani officials including the Army Chief, reaffirmed the &#8220;All-Weather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[935,934,933,932],"class_list":["post-63260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-story","tag-china-pakistan-economic-corridor","tag-president-xi-jinping","tag-prime-minister-shehbaz-sharif","tag-sharif-and-xi-vow-to-elevate-all-weather-ties-to-new-strategic-era"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63262,"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63260\/revisions\/63262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}