Amid the American American ice, two major challenges: Iran and China Donald Trump News

Islamabad, Pakistan – The Commander of the Pakistani army, Marshal Marshal Amer Monir, held unprecedented One meeting on one With US President Donald Trump at the White House, the two leaders spoke for more than two hours, according to the Pakistani army.

In a statement issued on Thursday by public relations between services (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistani army, the meeting, was originally scheduled for one hour, in the Chamber of Ministers for lunch and then continued in the oval office.

After the Wednesday meeting, ISPR said, Munir expressed a “profound appreciation” of Trump’s efforts to facilitate the ceasefire between India and Pakistan after a four -day struggle in May between the two nuclear armed neighbor. According to ISPR, Trump welcomed Pakistan’s cooperation against “terrorism”.

While the White House did not issue any statement to the meeting, which was held behind closed doors and without pictures of the news media, Trump spoke to reporters shortly after his talks with Monir. He thanked the army commander and said that he “supervises his interview.”

However, in the midst of Albunumi and promised to have a sharp relief in relations after years of tension between Washington and Islamabad, Trump also referred to the continuous military conflict between Israel and Iran, which the American president said his country might join.

“Know Iran well, better than most of them,” Trump said Trump, adding that they are “not happy.”

For Pakistan, analysts said, this comment emphasized how to re -appoint relations with the United States that Islamabad is desperately seeking through two major challenges. They said that Iran and the current crisis with Israel would force Pakistan to do a diplomatic budget. Islamabad’s document relations with China can attract Pakistan in conflicting directions.

What is Trump and Moner?

According to ISPR, Munir spoke to Trump about a group of areas that the two countries can enhance cooperation, including “economic development, mines and minerals, artificial intelligence, energy, cryptocurrency, and emerging technologies.”

But the Pakistani army acknowledged that the two leaders also had “detailed discussions” about the escalating tensions between Iran and Israel with both Monir and Trump – according to Islamabad – with a focus on the need for a peaceful solution.

Munir was accompanied by Pakistani National Security Adviser, Lieutenant General General Malik, who also heads the country’s leading intelligence agency, with the intelligence service players (ISI).

On the American side, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio and senior negotiators in the Middle East joined Trump, Steve Witkeov.

Marvin Winbum, an older colleague at the Middle East Institute (MEI), said that the lack of the presence of the media during lunch can be explained as “the nature of the conversation so that none of the parties wanted pictures of pictures.”

Weinbaum told Al -Jazeera that none of the parties wanted to reveal a lot about “what has been discussed, although my reading may have the United States wanted to know Pakistan’s role in Iran during this continuous situation.”

Later on Wednesday evening, Munir attended a dinner hosted by the Pakistani embassy with nearly thirteen personalities of intellectual tanks, political institutions and diplomatic departments. Al -Jazeera spoke to many participants, who all asked not to disclose his identity to discuss what Munir said at dinner.

One of the participants said Mounir did not reveal details of his meeting with Trump, but he noticed that the conversation was “great and could not go well.”

Munir added, according to this person, that Pakistan’s relations with the former administration of President Joe Biden were “among the worst” historically.

The other present told Al -Jazeera that Moner said that the United States “knows what it needs about Iran” and they repeated that Pakistan’s view is that “every conflict that can be resolved through dialogue and diplomacy.”

“Big Height”

Currently, experts said the meeting is a great gain for Pakistan in an attempt to improve relations with the United States.

Pakistan has been an ally of our close to independence in 1947. They worked closely in Afghanistan after the Soviet invasion in 1979 and then again after the American invasion of Afghanistan after the 11/11 attacks.

While the United States has provided more than $ 30 billion to help in the past two decades to Pakistan, Islamabad has repeatedly accused Islam of “duplication” and not being a reliable security partner.

Pakistan, in turn, argued that Washington is constantly calling for “more” without fully recognizing the losses and instability that Pakistan has suffered due to regional violence.

Elizabeth Thilkeld, director of the South Asian program at Stemphson Center in Washington, DC, said that Moner’s visit indicates a “significant rise” in US -Pakistani relations under the Trump administration.

She told Al Jazerera: “Given President Trump’s central role in shaping foreign policy and his preference for personal relationships, this visit allowed Marshal Monir to unify a relationship built during the recent crisis.”

Sahhar Khan, an expert in security policy in Washington, DC, said that although the meeting was important, this does not mean that the two countries are “friends now”. However, it indicates “melting ice in the relationship.”

She added that although Trump is unpredictable, Pakistan should consider concluding a deal with him to prevent unrealistic demands regarding regional issues.

She said: “At the present time, Munir’s message to the Trump administration is, taking enough time to understand Pakistan and stop watching it through the lens of India, China or Afghanistan,” she said.

Analysts said that making this message a stick, will not be easy.

China, the real strategic dilemma

China remains a partner in Pakistan the most important, which has deep economic, strategic and military relations. But at the same time, over the past three decades, it has made Beijing as a global superpower Washington’s main competition.

Mohamed Faisal, a security researcher in South Asia at the University of Technology in Sydney, said that managing relations with both forces will test the commitment of Islamabad the policy of “the non -camp policy.”

China has invested 62 billion dollars in the China -Pakistani economic corridor (CPEC), a major infrastructure project linking West China to the Arabian Sea through Pakistan.

On the military front, Pakistan purchases more than 80 percent of its weapons from China, and some of these products, especially Chinese aircraft and missiles, have offered their value in the recent conflict with India.

“In the long term, both (China and the United States) are two decisions for Pakistan in itself,” Faisal told the island of the island. Although both the United States and China may want both Islamabad to their side, the fact that Pakistan is required by both of them has its own advantage.

“It gives Islamabad a great diplomatic space to expand cooperation with both Beijing and Washington,” he said.

Iran’s challenge

Iran, which is currently presenting an intense Israeli attack that targeted the main infrastructure, military and high nuclear figures, represents another sensitive challenge for Pakistan.

Analysts have argued that the proximity to Pakistan and its relationships with Tehran put it as a potential medium between the United States and Iran.

Khan said: “It is the interest of Pakistan to play a role in the mediator. He cannot bear the costs of another discount on its western borders, given its internal challenges,” Khan said.

Last month, Munir traveled to Iran with Pakistani Prime Minister Shaybaz Sharif. During the visit, Major General Mohammed Baghri met with the head of the Iranian army. In the first wave of strikes by Israel on Friday, Bakri was one of the military officials who were killed.

Since the Israeli strikes began, Pakistan has strongly defended Iran’s right to self -defense, describing the Israeli strikes as violations of Iranian regional sovereignty and describing it as “stark provocations.”

The home of approximately 250 million people, Pakistan has a large Shiite minority – between 15 percent and 20 percent of the population – who are looking for Iran for religious leadership.

Faisal pointed out that these demographic and geographical facts will restrict public support for Pakistan for any American military intervention.

He said: “Islamabad can continue to invite diplomacy and stop hostilities to contain the conflict. As a neighbor, instability in Iran is not in the interest of Pakistan.”

At the same time, Faisal added that “an increase in sectarian tensions (in Pakistan) can test internal security. Thus, Islamabad will be careful of the general support of America.”