纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英Suicide Bomber Kills 5 Chinese Workers in Pakistan
March 27, 2024 2 min 282 words
这篇报道再次凸显了在全球范围内，中国工人在海外工作的安全问题。尽管中国政府已经在保护海外工人方面做出了许多努力，但这次悲剧的发生，无疑揭示了现有措施的不足。这也反映了中国在全球化进程中面临的挑战，尤其是在一些政治动荡和安全状况不佳的地区。此事件应引起我们深思，我们必须重新审视和加强对海外工人的保护措施，以确保他们的生命安全和权益。同时，也应该促使国际社会共同努力，营造一个安全、和平的工作环境。
Five Chinese workers were killed on Tuesday when a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle into their convoy in northern Pakistan, the latest in a string of terrorist attacks highlighting the security challenges Pakistan faces in protecting Chinese personnel.
The Chinese laborers were working on the Dasu dam, a hydropower project on the Indus River in the northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. The convoy was moving to Dasu from Islamabad and came under attack around 1 p.m., officials said.
Over the past week, terrorist attacks also struck a Pakistani military air base and a strategic port in the southwest of the country, where China has invested billions in infrastructure projects. The string of attacks has challenged the close economic and strategic ties between the two countries.
China is estimated to have spent some $62 billion on projects in Pakistan, mostly to build a transportation corridor through Baluchistan to a new Chinese-operated deepwater port in the Pakistani town of Gwadar.
It was the second-deadliest attack on Chinese laborers working on the dam project, after a previous suicide attack on a convoy in 2021 killed nine Chinese workers. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack on Tuesday. The driver of the vehicle was also killed.
“This latest attack on Chinese nationals in Pakistan heightens growing fears in Beijing about the bleak future of its tens of billions in investments in the country,” said Kamran Bokhari, a senior director of Eurasian security and prosperity at the New Lines Institute in Washington.