China’s reckless and reprehensible actions on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh since April 2020, to change the territorial status quo in some areas, can only be characterised as irresponsible behaviour on the part of a nuclear state towards another nuclear state, India.
It has done so through the sponsorship of terrorism, certainly, for the past three decades, in the now Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and of Ladakh and the rest of the country too.
This is in itself strange for two reasons: one, while China calls Pakistan ‘friend’ and ‘brother’, it is in fact its patron; hence, in undertaking these actions along the LAC in Ladakh, the patron is following the line taken by a ‘slavish client’; second, China aspires to be acknowledged as a global pre-eminent power in the same bracket as the United States but by pursuing an irresponsible path, it is demonstrating that it is should be put in the same bracket as Pakistan.