Is China threatening India or they're just scared?

 

A visa for Dolkun Isa, a leader of the World Uyghur Congress, to attend a conference at Dharamsala could have been a salutary response to the repeated political slaps India has received from China in the relevant UN Security Council (UNSC) committee on sanctioning Pakistan-based entities and individuals involved in terrorism against India. The decision to withdraw his visa recalls Alexander Pope's verse about being "willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike".

There might have been good reasons to reverse our decision, but we have embarrassed ourselves in the process, with a show of strength becoming a show of weakness.

Sanctions

By preventing UN sanctions on Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar under Resolution 1267 earlier this month, China has once again provoked India on a very sensitive issue. In the UNSC sanctions committee the other 14 members, including the US, France, the UK and Russia, supported India's proposal, as they were satisfied with our case against Azhar, but China claimed that India had "failed to provide enough information", without explaining what the deficiency was.

India had criticised China for its action, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi raising it personally with President Xi Jinping during his May 2015 visit to China. Our expectation that this might make China act more prudently in the sanctions committee on well-documented cases of terrorism directed at India has been rudely belied in Azhar's case.

Source: dailyo