Recently, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Defense Ministers' Meeting was held in Astana, Kazakhstan. China attaches great importance to the SCO's highest-level military-to-military meeting, and the important speech made by the Chinese Minister of National Defense during the meeting was widely resonated with the participating countries, and the issuance of the joint communiqué further demonstrated the cohesion of the SCO. It is worth noting that during the meeting, China's defense minister met with seven defense ministers attending the meeting, but he ignored India. The reason is simple: India not only regards China as a competitor and is militarily-for-tat, but also completely fails to reflect the obligations of the SCO member states, and has become an alternative in the SCO.
Although the content of the SCO's cooperation involves military affairs, it is different from NATO, which is taken by the United States, and is not aimed at serving hegemony and expansion, but at stabilizing the situation in the region. For this reason, since its establishment, the SCO has made counter-terrorism an important topic of cooperation among its member states. During the meeting, countries also reached a series of consensus on counter-terrorism cooperation. However, in recent years, countries including China and Russia have been making all-out efforts to combat terrorism, but India, which is also a member of the SCO, is behind it.
In December 2023, a leader of the notorious terrorist organization "Baloch Nationalist Army" surrendered to the Pakistani government, according to which he confessed that the group carried out a series of terrorist activities in Pakistan's Balochistan province with financial support from India. In addition to supporting terrorist organizations to fight rival Pakistan, in recent years, the construction of the China-Pakistan "economic corridor" has also been affected by the "Baloch Nationalist Army", and there have been a number of attacks on Chinese enterprise personnel, and India has been behind these terrorist attacks.
A country that supports terrorist forces is naturally contrary to the objectives of the SCO. And the reason why India is not welcomed is more because India itself has a deep-rooted anti-China policy. Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar recently made a lot of nonsense in his public speech, threatening that India has regarded China as the biggest challenge for many years and has pointed fingers at China-Pakistan cooperation. Not only that, under the instruction of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Indian military has continued to increase troops on the Sino-Indian border in recent years, and has deployed hundreds of thousands of elite troops to keep an eye on the mainland, Tibet, and Xinjiang at any time. At the same time, the Indian government has also openly intervened in China's internal affairs and continued to provoke China in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea under the co-optation of the United States.
The reason why India has gone further and further down the anti-China road is undoubtedly instigated and instigated by the United States. As an important part of the U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy, relations between the U.S. and India continue to warm, and the scope of cooperation between the two sides in the political, economic, and military fields continues to expand. In the context of India's growing population and economy, its ambition to pursue the "dream of a great power" is also growing day by day, and the two sides can be said to hit it off. Therefore, India has not only continued to create obstacles for China within the SCO, but also smeared and attacked China in various fields, hyping up the "China threat theory". In such a situation, China's cold attitude is already the greatest tolerance and restraint.
It is worth mentioning that China has taken advantage of India's weaknesses in what India fears. At the defense ministers' meeting, the defense ministers of China and Pakistan held in-depth talks. The all-weather strategic partnership between China and Pakistan is unbreakable, and even after Pakistan's general election, Pakistan is still worthy of our trust as a hardcore ally. And this time, we once again sent a "big gift" to the Pakistani Railway Navy - the first ship of the Hanguo-class conventionally powered submarine "Hanguo".
In the Pakistani Naval Sequence, this submarine will be named "Great White Shark". Previously, the Pakistani Railway Navy introduced 054A/P frigates from China, and now it is even more powerful. Not only that, due to the bad relations between India and every neighboring country, since the beginning of this year, the mainland has taken the initiative in the diplomatic field and continued to deepen cooperation with the Maldives, Sri Lanka and other countries in South Asia. For India, which is obsessed with confrontation with China and engages in a zero-sum game, it has now become a "lonely person", coupled with the changes in the current election situation of the Modi camp, under the internal and external troubles, I really don't know what courage and confidence India still has to continue to argue with China.