喀喇昆仑公路是中国为数不多的超大型外援工程,具有十分重要的战略价值。出于战略考虑,中国在修建喀喇昆仑公路的问题上积极主动,不仅提议修建此路,而且还承诺提供援助;尽管在中巴事实同盟形成过程中两国战略目标逐步重叠,但因顾忌美国的反对,巴基斯坦在修路问题上态度有过反复;1965年的印巴战争最终促成喀喇昆仑公路的上马。 The Karakorum Highway is one of the few very large-scale foreign aid projects in China and has very important strategic value. For strategic reasons, China is pro-active in building the Karakorum Highway. It not only proposed the construction of this road, but also promised to provide assistance. Although the strategic goals of the two countries gradually overlapped in the formation of the de facto alliance of China and Pakistan, Pakistani attitude on the road has been repeated; India-Pakistan war in 1965 eventually led to the launch of the Karakorum Highway.