India’s ongoing crackdown on once-autonomous Kashmir has fueled a lot of
criticism from neighboring Pakistan, and unsurprisingly is also being
criticized by Pakistan’s closest regional ally, China.
China’s foreign ministry says that it wants to see India play a
constructive role in regional peace and stability, and not take
unilateral actions. These comments came as India’s FM flew to China to
meet his counterpart related to the upcoming UN Security Council matter.
Pakistan has promised to take the issue of India’s crackdown on Kashmir
to the UN Security Council, and is counting on China’s support. The
Indian government, however, is warning China to stay out of the matter, saying it should not allow any differences of opinion to become disputes.
That’s likely unavoidable, however, as Kashmir is a huge issue to the
Pakistanis, and anything that brings India and Pakistan into conflict
will also be a huge issue to China. The Chinese government may have less
direct interest in whether India respects constitutional autonomy for
Kashmir, but that area is right on their border, and they clearly don’t
want to see it flare up, either internally in Kashmir, or into a direct
India-Pakistan War.
USA hopes to use Indians as cannon-fodder in aggression against China. Modi, promised a Dairy Queen in northern Virginia after the war, is going along.
The USA certainly wants this, but I doubt Modi will go along. The Indians have become very British.
This is a very dangerous conflict, not only because India and Pakistan are nuclear powers, but because it is of importance to the other nuclear powers. Interconnected local disputes can escalate into global ones.
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India would be better off bringing the 700,000 troops back and let Kashmiris rule themselves.