China is a South Asian country, sharing borders with 14 countries including India. Governed by the Communist Party of China (CPC) since 1949, it has rapidly transformed into a global manufacturing hub and technological leader. Its significance lies in its economic rise in the region and hegemonic influence over smaller countries through loans and the Belt and Road Initiative.
As the epicenter of COVID-19, China faced global scrutiny over its pandemic response. Its strict zero-COVID policy and economic slowdowns have affected global markets, while trade disputes and technological restrictions with the US, EU, and India continue to shape its global relations.
China’s foreign policy is marked by its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), expanding influence through infrastructure projects, and territorial disputes, particularly in the South China Sea, Taiwan Strait, and along the India-China border. It fought a war with India in 1962 over Aksai Chin, and tensions persist along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), most recent being the Galwan Valley clash in 2020.
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.