When Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visits Pakistan this month to inaugurate the Gwadar deepsea port, China will take a giant leap forward in gaining a strategic foothold in the Persian Gulf region. It will advance what a recent Pentagon report describes as Beijing's "string of pearls" strategy that aims 
to project Chinese power overseas and protect China's energy security at home.
Gwadar is a fishing village on the Arabian Sea coast in the Pakistani province of Balochistan.
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