Pakistan and China Stand United Against Indian Hostility

In a rapidly destabilizing South Asian environment, Pakistan’s strategic partnership with China is a lamp of balance and cooperation. The recent remarks by General Sahir Shamshad Mirza, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC), during China’s People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) 98th founding anniversary are a clear and unmistakable message: Pakistan and China stand in unison together economically, militarily, and geopolitically. This alliance is not new. From the very conceptualization of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to decades of defense cooperation, Islamabad and Beijing have developed a relationship based on mutual respect, common interests, and a shared vision for regional peace and prosperity. But beyond economics and security, this alliance is about standing up to a shared destabilizing force in the region: India’s expansionist and hegemonic agenda.

India, through its more and more aggressive Hindutva-led regime, has pursued relentlessly its efforts to create instability in the region. Its encirclement doctrine, anti-China aggression, and evil intentions towards Pakistan have turned South Asia into one of the most unstable areas on the globe. However, again and again, India has been thwarted by the China-Pakistan axis, a bond which is deeper than seas, higher than mountains, and stronger than steel. India’s ire peaked during the four-day May military skirmish when its military belligerence was matched by determined Pakistani resistance. Indian leaders now hypocritically blame China for offering Pakistan “live inputs” in this confrontation. This charge exposes two things: One, India is not able to stomach defeat, and two, it is afraid of Islamabad and Beijing’s strategic synergy.

But Pakistan does not require foreign aid to protect itself. As Defense Minister Khawaja Asif appropriately asserted, Pakistan’s triumph was “Made in Pakistan.” Our military is more than capable of protecting the sovereignty of the country, no matter how much false information India disseminates or how hard it works to globalize its self-fashioned issues.
India’s actual problem is not with Chinese “inputs”, but with Pakistan’s increasing confidence in itself, military modernization, and regional alignments. Those have isolated and left New Delhi vulnerable to Islamabad’s ire. India’s irresponsible policies, ranging from its illegal abrogation of Article 370 in Kashmir to its state-sponsored terrorism in Balochistan, have rendered it suspect in the eyes of its neighbors and contemptuous of the international community.

While that is happening, Pakistan is looking forward to progress. The CPEC is revolutionizing Pakistan’s infrastructure, energy sector, and connectivity in the region. Gwadar port, a pivot of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), provides China direct access to the Arabian Sea, and new economic and trade routes of growth. Of course, this enervates India, which has attempted everything ranging from propaganda to proxy wars to derail this cooperation.

In spite of India’s secret funding of separatist organizations and its role in inciting terrorism within Pakistan, the commitment to secure Chinese nationals employed on CPEC projects does not waver. Pakistan has continuously promised Beijing that their citizens will be protected at all costs, even in turbulent areas, as our commitment is not verbal, it is real.
In contrast, India’s actions in the region reflect nothing but hostility, double-dealing, and deceit. New Delhi has simultaneously joined anti-China military alliances like the QUAD while pretending to engage with China in BRICS, exposing its two-faced diplomacy to the world.

While India plays both sides at the moment, Pakistan remains steadfast on principle and alliance. We aren’t interested in vacuous declarations like “Vishwa Guru.” We are interested in peace, prosperity, and a fair regional arrangement where hegemonic ambitions are shattered, and sovereign states follow their own destinies. The Pakistan-China relationship is not merely holding out, it is flourishing. And nothing short of Indian propaganda will alter that fact.