sun shihai director of the institute of south asia studies in sichuan university of china these individual attacks will only raise the awareness of pakistan and chinas governments to put more emphasis on securitychinas influence has increased across pakistan in recent years islamabad has also pivoted to beijing as relations with the us are increasing strained under president donald trump who canceled military aid to pakistan this year trump has repeatedly accused pakistan of sheltering insurgent groups who operate in afghanistan a charge refuted by pakistani government and military officialsdebt diplomacyyet resentment toward the chinese is also rising critics say beijing is ensnaring pakistan in socalled debt diplomacy by granting opaque loans that islamabad will find difficult to repay as it faces a balanceofpayments crisis pakistan is currently negotiating a bailout with the international monetary fundmany pakistani firms also grumble about the preferential treatment being meted out to chinese businesses since 2015 when president xi jinping first launched the chinapakistan economic corridorfridays attack is a very high profile attempt which failed but nevertheless it causes concerns that there are people opposing chinas mega projects in pakistan said hasan askari rizvi a lahorebased political analyst and former government official