After US, China Claims Credit For Easing India-Pakistan Tensions

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi claimed that China played a mediating role in reducing the heightened tensions between India and Pakistan in May. 

China on India-Pakistan tensions: After the US, China has now also tried to take credit for de-escalating India-Pakistan tensions. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi claimed that China played a mediating role in reducing the heightened tensions between India and Pakistan in May. This statement was made at an event in Beijing on international affairs and China's foreign policy. However, India has already made it clear that no third country had any role in this entire matter.

Wang Yi said that conflicts and instability have increased rapidly across the world in recent years. According to him, for the first time since the Second World War, so many local wars and cross-border conflicts have been witnessed. He claimed that China adopts a balanced and impartial approach in international disputes and tries to get to the root of the problems. Under this policy, China has tried to reduce tensions in India-Pakistan, Myanmar, Iran, and other regions.

"To build peace that lasts, we have taken an objective and just stance, and focused on addressing both symptoms and root causes. Following this Chinese approach to settling hotspot issues, we mediated in northern Myanmar, the Iranian nuclear issue, the tensions between Pakistan and India, the issues between Palestine and Israel, and the recent conflict between Cambodia and Thailand," Wang said.

Wang’s remarks come several months after India and Pakistan faced a short but fierce military conflict in May. The conflict was triggered by a terror attack carried out by Pakistan-backed terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam valley on April 22, which claimed 26 civilian lives.

India retaliated with Operation Sindoor, destroying nine terror bases located in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and killing over 100 dreaded terrorists.

India has repeatedly maintained that the ceasefire between India and Pakistan after Operation Sindoor was reached following Pakistan’s Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) reaching out to his Indian counterpart. Both sides subsequently agreed to halt all hostilities, on land, in the air and at sea, effective May 10.

This narrative of Chinese involvement contrasts with earlier US accusations of Beijing's disinformation efforts post-Operation Sindoor.

In November, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a body that advises the US Congress, reported that China allegedly conducted a disinformation campaign after Operation Sindoor. The report claimed that Beijing used fake social media accounts to spread AI-generated images of fabricated aircraft wreckage, purportedly to damage the reputation of France’s Rafale fighter jets and promote its domestically developed J-35 aircraft.