China is a South Asian country, sharing borders with 14 countries including India. Its significance lies in its rise in the region and hegemonic influence over smaller countries through loans and the Belt and Road Initiative. China and India have fought a major war in the 60s and have disputes over the Aksai Chin and LAC, and tensions over the Indo-Pacific.
Saw a snippet of an interview the visiting Iranian Foreign Minister gave. He said that while terrorism emanating from Afghanistan would pose a regional security threat to his country and India, terrorism emanating from both Afghanistan and Pakistan would pose an “ existential “ threat to Pakistan. So if we overcome our paranoia a bit, view Pakistan too as a troubled state with dismal economic performance that worries both its civilian government and the military leadership, there is scope for resumption of a serious dialogue. This continuous harping of Pakistan as the sponsor of cross border terrorism is not very helpful.