China includes CPEC in expedition to Tibet

China has included the controversial China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in its second scientific expedition to the 4,000-metre Qinghai-Tibet plateau to study changes to climate and the environment in the region. The expedition will take scientists to a pass linking to South Asia, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. The expedition will also take scientists to the CPEC which passes through the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) over which India has conveyed its protests to China. The area covers the Karakoram mountain ranges, including the Siachen glacier. The last expedition of a similar scale was conducted in the 1970s.