China’s hypocritical stance at UN against India is a bid to distract from its own troubles in Xinjiang, Hong Kong | The Indian Express

China’s hypocritical stance at UN against India is a bid to distract from its own troubles in Xinjiang, Hong Kong | The Indian Express

Written by Sujan R Chinoy |Updated: August 21, 2019 9:22:12 am

The writer, a former Indian Ambassador with extensive experience on China, UN and national security issues, is director general of Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. Views are personal.

China’s hypocritical stance at UN against India is a bid to distract from its own troubles in Xinjiang, Hong Kong

It is patently wrong to claim, as vested political interests have done in India, that the scrapping of Article 370 has resulted in the “internationalisation of Jammu & Kashmir” and that the informal discussion by UNSC members is the first of its kind in six decades.

One should recall that in 1965, when China reorganised the erstwhile Tibet region into the Tibet Autonomous Region, giving it a provincial status, India was not apoplectic, like China has been following the designation of Ladakh as a union territory. (Illustration by C R Sasikumar)

On August 16, the 15 members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) engaged in closed-door informal consultations in response to a letter written by Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi to the President of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), backed by a request by Pakistan’s “iron brother” China, on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K).