The writer is a poet and analyst. PAKISTAN has historically relied on two centres of power, ie, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia — both as original benefactor and a US proxy — and China. It takes a feat of jugglery to accommodate these two seemingly disparate worldviews. It is, however, when KSA and China get their ducks in a row that our goose gets cooked. Don’t get me wrong, there definitely will be winners on our side too, but most likely, it won’t be us common folk. Why? For the simple reason that most of us are neither property tycoons, nor captains of industry salivating at the prospect of free ports from Karachi to Gwadar. No Mehran-Bolan conspiracy here, it’s just that the rest of the country is landlocked.