As usual, China has once again acted as an impediment at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), this time, by thwarting the move of India as well as the US aimed at designating Jaish-e-Mohammad’s ( JeM) Deputy Chief, Rauf Asghar as a ‘designated terrorist’—a real threat who is operating effectively in Pakistan and other nearby border areas with Afghanistan. However, China has once again played its role of being a spoilsport. Nothing is hidden concerning the activities of the JeM not only in a particular area but across the sub-continent. It has remained there in one form or the other, however, China, while it faces India and particularly the US in the UNSC, won’t leave any option available to it to halt such moves in the future as well.
No matter how normal the ties China would try to present with India to the whole world, the fact remains that it has been constantly at odds with it along the LAC—where the matters remain hot despite military talks which have not seen any breakthrough so far. At the same time, the role of Pakistan in impacting the decisions of China cannot be deducted—particularly concerning JeM’s Rauf Asghar who has at his back the military establishment of Pakistan—at the UNSC, coupled with the recent visit of Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan apart from already existing hostility with the US.
By thwarting the move at the UNSC, China has, in a way, attended to its strategic demands on different fronts: India as well as the US, as it could not do much after the visit of Pelosi and has tried to settle the score, to some extent, with the US at the Security Council. With regard to dealing with India, China is mostly going after what they are being told by Pakistan, but that is something that might not augur well for Beijing in the long run.
If China is to be believed, then it condemns terrorism in any shape or form, but on the contrary, what it does is that it tries to abort the measure that the world powers take aimed at making the world a better place by identifying the dreaded terrorists who are working for destabilizing countries, and calling for action against those spread terror. But instead, countries like China, on the impulses of the countries like Pakistan, which harbor the terrorists, do the otherwise. This time, the double-speak of China has been exposed on the issue of global terrorism which is affecting people irrespective of their religion, caste, or creed. Such measures by China demand condemnation by the global powers who, now, should think of an alternative way of going ahead with such designations for the sustenance of world peace..
