Zubair Qureshi
A panel of international experts while attending an online seminar expressed concerns that India was aspiring to emerge as a US proxy against China, Pakistan and other countries in the region.
However, China’s response to India in Galvan valley of Ladakh served a timely lesson on India that wants to expand its regional designs in violaiton of the international laws, said they.
Speaking to a webinar on “China-India escalation in Galvan valley – implications for the region and global peace”, the experts were of the view that India was not enjoying good neighbourly relations with any of its three neighbours, namely Nepal, China and Pakistan and was posing grave threat to China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) a flagship project of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
However, they said China knew to protect its interests as well as Pakistan’s for its strategic and development initiatives in the northern parts including Siachen.
Development Communications Network (Devcom-Pakistan) organized the international webinar on Saturday. The main speakers included Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed, chairman Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and chairman Pak-China Institute, Defense and international relations expert Lt General (R) Talat Masood, well-known senior journalist and correspondent from Washington DC Anwar Iqbal, Researcher and Analyst with BRI Strategy Institute of Tsinghua University in Beijing Zoon Ahmad Khan, and researcher on China-US relation faculty member at the National Defense University (DU) Dr Sameera Imran. Webinar was hosted by the Devcom-Pakistan and DTN Director Munir Ahmed.
Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed said India is more interested in showing its muscles in the region while the US is trying to avoid conflicts and wars. But, US-China economic conflict is getting up that would lead to a serious situation in the region where India would like to play its role against China. India still have a bitter taste of 1962 war with China in mouth and the recent misadventure has added more bitterness.
