A Joint Pakistan-China think tank named 'RANDI' was launched today in the Chinese island of Hainan. The think tank "Research and Development International (RANDI)”, will focus on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor research and development. According to the Islamabad office of Pakistan China Institute, RANDI will have two co-chairpersons; Madame Zhao Baige, (former minister, member of parliament), and Senator Mushahid Hussain, vice chairperson of Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People’s Congress.

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RANDI will enable an'Information Corridor’ to create and exchange information among policy-makers, students, specialists, scholars and enterprises in both countries. The RANDI Pakistan secretariat will be based at Islamabad's Pakistan-China Institute, and the China secretariat will be shared by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and the China Institute of Reform & Development (CIRD).

Chinese president Xi Jinping is due in Pakistan to launch $46 billion worth of projects linking the old allies, a figure that far exceeds US spending in Pakistan and underscores China's projection of power in Asia. The infrastructure and energy projects are aimed at establishing a Pakistan-China Economic Corridor between Pakistan's southern Gwadar port on the Arabian Sea and China's western Xinjiang region.

Now that we've written all that with a straight face, let's go to Twitter, for um, RANDI research and development.

New Pak think tank called RANDI. Y U SO HONEST YAAR PAKISTAN pic.twitter.com/DDYU6vm5JT — reviewero (@Reviewero) April 20, 2015

Pakistan & China name their tank RANDI. We never have such naming issues.We'd have called it Indira Gandhi Tank Yojana or Rajiv Gandhi Tank. — Devaiah Bopanna (@devaiahPB) April 20, 2015

We also spotted some brave Pakistanis attempting to defend their Institute from cross border LOLs

But then Pakistan seems to have a history of...stuff

With inputs from Reuters