‘china Is Concerned...': Beijing Stops Short Of Backing Pakistan In Border Standoff With India

As tensions soared betwixt India and Pakistan, China called for calm and restraint from some sides, while stopping short of backing Pakistan outright.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said Beijing is “concerned complete existent developments” and reminded some countries that they are not only each other’s neighbours but besides China’s neighbours. 

“We reason each forms of terrorism,” Lin said, adding, “We impulse some sides to enactment successful nan larger liking of bid and stability, observe world law, including nan UN Charter, stay calm, workout restraint and refrain from taking actions that whitethorn further complicate nan situation.”

He further stated that China was fresh to activity pinch nan world organization to play “a constructive domiciled successful easing nan existent tensions.”

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor successful an earlier question and reply explained why Beijing’s guidelines was “not arsenic pro-Pakistan” arsenic expected. 

“What China has said is suggestive that they are not oblivious of nan truth that relations pinch India were warming,” Tharoor told reporters connected Thursday.

In a pointed observation, Tharoor noted that successful today’s “Trumpian world of precocious tariffs,” India’s marketplace mattered much to China than before. “China needs India successful a measurement that it ne'er needed them before,” he said. “If location were a existent war, they would person supported Pakistan. But to forestall a war, China will return a constructive attack successful my view.”

Tharoor besides noted that while calls for restraint were expected from nan world community, only Russia, France, and Israel had specifically supported India’s correct to take sides itself. “America, successful principle, should person said something… they reacted nan astir powerfully aft 9/11,” he added.

Published on: May 9, 2025 1:01 PM IST