So what would you suggest China to do, Ray? Abandon Pakistan and let India deal with it? It would be wonderful if India could deal with Pakistan with warm hand, forgiveness than cold stone hate. But is it realistic now?
China support Pakistan to support herself. Everyone is worrying Pakistan becomes a terrorist state that no one can control. It's not imaginary it's increasing likely. Afghanistan is already called "Empire's tomb" where two supper powers were struggling. How about another Afghanistan several times bigger? Can India government handle it? Well Indian probably already treats Pakistan as terrorist state. Not so to China. To us Pakistan has legitimate government and we see friendship and kindness among many people. From them we just see normal human being like rest of us around the world. They don't want war; they just want to live in peace; most of them don't enjoy killing Indian either. Why not help them but instead drive them into the corner?
China is not policemen of South Asia. Neither do we want to nor are we capable of. Instead, we are depending on a peaceful South Asia so our fleet can pass through safely and our business can continue prosperous there. As most powerful nation in South Asia, it's India's responsibility to work with other surrounding nations to ensure a peaceful South Asia. India should take such initiative out of confidence, and optimistic about the future of South Asia.
Abandon Pakistan? No, how can you? It is your cat's paw! It is the cog of your strategy of using Pakistan to keep India occupied while you merrily go on adding to your arsenal in peace without conflict! No, I do not expect you to abandon Pakistan and which you will never do. I also do not expect you to bombard us with mealy mouthed pious platitude to lull us into complacency as you did after Bandung.
The dreamy esoteric idealism of India is no longer there. We have become practical and all thanks to you and your smiling deceit, forgetting that the origin of a smile need not be pleasant. One can also smile with sinister designs, which you did in 1962!! You tried again in 1969, but then you saw a resurgent India. You, thereafter, changed tack!
China is not supporting Pakistan as if Pakistan was its long lost brother after their birth (as is shown ad nauseum in Hindi films). The support is a strategic necessity, wherein Pakistan keeps India occupied and thus China can carry on its economic and military enhancement without wasting money on border defence and things like that. It is also essential for China to keep Pakistan in good humour since Pakistan is the source of fundamentalist terrorism and East Turkmenistan is a vulnerable area for China. If there is turmoil in East Turkmenistan, then the Hans settled there will flee hotfoot back to China and all the oil and minerals that you are extracting will stop and China's economy will nose dive.
Therefore, would you be kind enough spare us your pious homilies about 'saving' Pakistan from the ire of BIG India? Do tell these fairy tales to children and not pander it here. We have outgrown our toddler days and now do understand the world and events as it unfolds.
Pakistan does not want war? Pakistan wants to live in Peace? Is that what your CCP has told you? Fine, let us believe that it is so the case. If that is the case, then why is the womb of terrorism and why does it export terrorism the world over? Peace through terrorism? That's a new theory indeed!
The CCP may not have told you about Pakistan and terrorism export, but then pay heed to what DAWN, a widely read newspaper has to say of Uighurs. Pakistan, China and spreading of fundamentalism from Pakistan to China:
In fact, a militant Uighur uprising at this point would be more a self-fulfilling prophecy than new development. In recent years, China has waged a campaign denouncing Islamic extremists and separatists that it claims are agitating for an independent East Turkestan in Xinjiang. Beijing played up the extremist threat in Xinjiang in an effort to gain sympathy in the global context of the war against terror. A rhetorical device is now closer to becoming a reality.......
One of the reasons for this is the military operation currently underway in northwest Pakistan. In 2001, it was reported that up to 10,000 Uighurs had arrived in Pakistan to receive religious education.
More troubling is the fact that Uighur militants, as well as non-extremist Uighurs, will be returning to Xinjiang equipped with the rhetoric that fuels militancy. In April, the then outgoing Jamaat-i-Islami chief, Qazi Hussain Ahmed, said that the party had signed an MoU with China for permission to preach Islam there. He put forth the convoluted argument that the West was using trade with China as a means to bringing the nation into the Christian fold. Qazi Hussain Ahmed explained that before that could happen, the JI and other Muslim groups had to ensure that the ideological vacuum in China was filled with Islamic beliefs. This vision of China as an opportunity for Islamic expansionism is in danger of being exploited by militants to agitate for Muslim statehood and Sharia in Xinjiang.
Anticipating this, China has already cracked the whip on militant movements between Pakistan's north-western region and Xinjiang. In April, Chinese officials met NWFP politicians to request that access to Uighur separatists be curtailed. China also asked for Uighur militants in Fata to be identified and apprehended. Now, a militant uprising in Xinjiang is in danger of being seen by Beijing as the consequence of Pakistan's failure to follow through on its promises.
Dawn
Of course it is India's responsibility to have good relations with all. However, if China supplies nuclear technology and missiles and then act smug, it is hardly in consonance with China's charade of being an Honest Broker.