section_path: Foreign involvement/China
section_name: China
paragraph_text: China
  
  The BLA has strongly opposed the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which constitutes part of China's Belt and Road Initiative. Due to its opposition to CPEC projects such as the Gwadar Port City, the BLA has recently focused on targated terror attacks on Chinese nationals even outside Balochistan, including a 2019 attack on the Pearl-Continental Hotel in Islamabad: 60 and an attack on the Chinese consulate in Karachi.