Amidst the standoff between the armies of India and China, Beijing’s decision to extend it’s technical hold on the proposal of listing Azhar Masood as a designated terrorist by the UN which has been already backed by the US, France and UK, can play a major role in setting the tone of the upcoming BRICS summit where Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping in the presence of delegations from Russia, Brazil and South Africa next month in the Chinese city of Xiamen.
Going by the recent track record, China tends to resolve the border issues with India everytime the primiers of the two states meet. The standoff in 2014 was put to rest just before the President Xi visited India.
Despite the fact that China would try to project itself as a country that extends full cooperation to the developing nation’s in the BRICS summit, nothing has changed on the ground in Doklam sector and the extension of the technical hold in listing the Pathankot terror attack Azhar Masood as a global terrorist has further dampened the relation between these two countries.
As far as the Azhar Masood is concerned, China in February this year too blocked US from designating him as a global terrorist.
What would add salt to injury is China’s One Road One Belt policy within which Beijing has constructed a road up to PoK. Named as the China Pakistan Economic Corridor, experts are of the opinion that it is a calculated move of China to put India under pressure in collaboration with Pakistan.
Amidst these problems, it can be said that when Modi and Xi will meet next month, a war of words is on the cards.
