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People aware of the developments said China had no part in bringing the tensions between India and Pakistan to an end in May.
Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi on Tuesday claimed that tensions between India and Pakistan were among the list of issues “mediated” by Beijing this year. However, this claim has been described as “bizarre” by people familiar with the matter who said that China played no role in the ceasefire.
India and Pakistan were involved in an intense military standoff in May after a terror attack in the Pahalgam valley of Jammu and Kashmir on April 22 killed 26 civilians. India retaliated through Operation Sindoor, which targeted terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
China claims ‘mediation’ in India-Pakistan talks
China's foreign minister made the claim while speaking at the “Symposium on the International Situation and China’s Foreign Relations” in Beijing.“This year, local wars and cross-border conflicts flared up more often than at any time since the end of World War II. Geopolitical turbulence continued to spread,” Wang Yi said at the symposium.
“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,” he added.
