The Chinese use Pakistan as a cheap instrument to triangulate India between them. It is safer to presume that the Chinese now see Pakistan as an extension of their Western Theatre Command.
In an unclassified threat assessment paper, US' DIA says Islamabad sees New Delhi as an ‘existential threat’ & will push its development of nuclear weapons to offset India.
For New Delhi, the path forward lies not in indulging theatrical appeals to ‘Asian brotherhood’, but in resolutely preparing to confront Chinese fire with the tempered steel of Indian resolve.
Chinese commentary repeatedly casts India as a hegemonic upstream actor leveraging its geographic position, while China is painted as a stabilising force.
Global media also reports that Pakistan denied ceasefire 'breaches', while warning that the confrontation may have ‘laid the ground for a more dangerous one’ in the future.
Beijing’s comments come as Pakistan seeks to reaffirm its position with close partners. India has announced cross-border linkages to the attack, with a range of punitive diplomatic measures.
The slaughterhouse’s operations come as part of an agreement between Pakistan and China to export donkey by-products, particularly hides, to the Chinese market in 2024.
China’s political secretary to Pakistan accused Islamabad of engaging in ‘false rhetoric’ about CPEC projects during an interview with The Guardian. Chinese embassy now claims the official was misquoted.
Last week, a military delegation from Pakistan, which also included ISI officials, went to Bangladesh and visited Rangpur district, which is located near the ‘Chicken Neck’ in India.
The PML(N) leader has said her visit aims to strengthen Pakistan-China ties, focusing on modern infrastructure, healthcare, education, clean energy, and IT investment.
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
Some people still think that Pakistan is propped up and supported by the US. They are still living in soviet era foreign policy. World has moved on. China is the all weather partner of Pakistan, whatever Paksitan does has the stamp of approval from Beijing. And we need more friends globally to win this three front war. Isolation will only bring you so far. Isolation works if all our neighbours were also isolated but they are united.
The column does not make for happy reading. Pakistan is not the chocolate eclair wrapper our studio warriors make it out to be. Its conventional capabilities augmented and bolstered – in the past, China has contributed to its nuclear weapons programme as well – by China, it can tie us down sufficiently to allow China’s western theatre command to chill. 2. I will leave military strategy to the experts. Although honestly cannot understand the claim that India can “ win “ a two front war. What role should the Foreign Office be playing to prevent India from being hemmed in from two sides. As the column explains, this dynamic started in 1962. Long enough to figure out a better modus vivendi for three neighbours whom a messy partition of Hari Singh’s complex real estate holdings has placed in possession of portions of a contested territory. Including swathes where not a blade of grass grows. 3. What should also be kept in mind is the economic growth China has registered since 1978. The asymmetry it has created.
Some people still think that Pakistan is propped up and supported by the US. They are still living in soviet era foreign policy. World has moved on. China is the all weather partner of Pakistan, whatever Paksitan does has the stamp of approval from Beijing. And we need more friends globally to win this three front war. Isolation will only bring you so far. Isolation works if all our neighbours were also isolated but they are united.
There’s no solution.
Chinese attacked us even when we went out of our ways to support it at UN , on Tibet in 1950s.
Pak is ideologically bound to be our enemy plus it gets benefits by opposing us.
Being so strong that we can defeat both is the only way.
If it needs a alliance with West, let it be, no need for an autonomy which doesn’t allow us to improve our living standards.
The column does not make for happy reading. Pakistan is not the chocolate eclair wrapper our studio warriors make it out to be. Its conventional capabilities augmented and bolstered – in the past, China has contributed to its nuclear weapons programme as well – by China, it can tie us down sufficiently to allow China’s western theatre command to chill. 2. I will leave military strategy to the experts. Although honestly cannot understand the claim that India can “ win “ a two front war. What role should the Foreign Office be playing to prevent India from being hemmed in from two sides. As the column explains, this dynamic started in 1962. Long enough to figure out a better modus vivendi for three neighbours whom a messy partition of Hari Singh’s complex real estate holdings has placed in possession of portions of a contested territory. Including swathes where not a blade of grass grows. 3. What should also be kept in mind is the economic growth China has registered since 1978. The asymmetry it has created.