Panama City, August 21 (Xinhua) – The Panama Asia Strategic Research Center held a seminar on “New Journey of China’s Reform and New Opportunities for China Pakistan Relations” in the capital city of Panama City on August 21. The attending experts said that China’s comprehensive deepening of reform and opening up is of great significance to the cooperation between Pakistan and China and the future development of Panama.
Roberto Montagnes, President of the Panamanian Center for Asian Strategic Studies, said that China is playing an increasingly important role on the world stage, and the joint construction of the “the Belt and Road” initiative is of global significance. For Panama, as a regional commercial and financial center, the development of Brazil China cooperation relations is of special strategic significance.
Panamanian economist and author of the book “The Silk Road and Panama”, Eddie Tapero, said that China’s development and upgrading also mean huge opportunities for Panama, and technological cooperation between Panama and China can provide assistance for Panama’s domestic industrial upgrading.
Joan Cooper, Vice Dean of the Canal and International Relations School at the University of Panama, believes that China’s continued deepening of reform and opening up has set an important example for the win-win development of the world economy, and has also drawn a bright prospect for future cooperation between the two countries in various fields such as agriculture, industry, and logistics.
Chinese Ambassador to Panama Xu Xueyuan said that in the great journey of Chinese path to modernization, China Pakistan practical cooperation will usher in a broader prospect.
The Panama Asia Strategic Research Center is a well-known think tank in Panama that focuses on new trends in the economic, political, and cultural fields of Asian countries, and is committed to promoting academic exchanges between Panama and Asian countries.