Research And

Development

International

Agenda• What is Randi?

• Members of RANDI

• China-Pakistan Come closer

• Purpose of RANDI

• Chinas Investment

• Twitter makes fun of think tank

• Tweets making fun of RANDI

What is Randi?• The think tank "Research and Development International

(RANDI)”, will focus on China-Pakistan Economic

Corridor research and development

• It was announced on 20th

Members of RANDI• According to the Islamabad

office of Pakistan China

Institute, RANDI will have two

co-chairpersons; Madame Zhao

Baige, (former minister,

member of parliament), and

Senator Mushahid Hussain, vice

chairperson of Foreign Affairs

Committee of the National

People’s Congress.

China-Pakistan Come

closer• China has

signed 51 Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with Islamabad to develop a China-Pakistan economic corridor that will connect China’s restive Xinjiang to the Arabian sea

• It will give China direct access to oil in the Middle-East

Purpose of RANDI

• RANDI will enable an 'Information Corridor’ to create and

exchange information among policy-makers, students,

specialists, scholars and enterprises in both countries

• The RANDI Pakistan secretariat will be based at Islamabad's

Pakistan-China Institute, and the China secretariat will be

shared by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)

and the China Institute of Reform & Development (CIRD)

Chinas Investment

• Chinese president Xi Jinping is due in Pakistan to launch

$46 billion worth of projects linking the old allies, a figure

that far exceeds US spending in Pakistan and underscores

China's projection of power in Asia

• The infrastructure and energy projects are aimed at

establishing a Pakistan-China Economic Corridor between

Pakistan's southern Gwadar port on the Arabian Sea and

China's western Xinjiang region

Twitter makes fun of think

tank• The name is pretty good and harmless, but its acronym

‘RANDI’ takes the cake

• It’s a vulgar Hindi/Urdu word for “whore.”

• Twitteratti was quick to react on the name of the think

tank.

Tweets making fun of RANDI• Here are some of the tweets making fun of the name: