India’s desire to isolate Pakistan internationally for its support of terrorism has foundered on China’s great wall of support for the government ...
NEW DELHI: One can only hope that the latest tensions between India and Pakistan, which erupted after a terrorist attack last month killed over 40 Indian paramilitary policemen and injured several others in the Pulwama district of the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir, will be resolved peacefully.
Indian soldiers and Kashmiri onlookers stand near the remains of an Indian Air Force helicopter after it crashed in Budgam district, on the outskirts of Srinagar, on Feb 27, 2019. But, though 14 of the Security Council’s 15 members support such a designation, China, Pakistan’s staunch ally, has blocked it three times.The reasons for China’s intransigence are not hard to discern. It describes itself as an “all-weather” ally of Pakistan, which it sees as a useful counterweight to India.
It is a prestige project for China and an economically crucial one, and it seems to guarantee Pakistan’s indispensability in China’s geopolitical calculations for a long time to come.Though China dutifully joined in the chorus of global voices condemning the Feb 14 suicide bombing, its government again made clear that it was in no hurry to lift its hold on sanctioning Azhar.
And yet Modi is particularly embarrassed by China’s continued support for Pakistan, which flies in the face of the much-toutedhe claimed to have established with President Xi Jinping after their summit last year in the central Chinese city.
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