China’s military hardware under spotlight as India-Pakistan conflict intensifies: report

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Hong Kong: The growing conflict between India and Pakistan can present the world’s first real glimpse of how modern Chinese military technology performs against Western hardware – and Chinese defense stocks are already growing, foreign outlets ‘CNN’ has said in a report titled ‘China’. The dispute between India and Pakistan, published on Friday, could be the first major test.

CNN added that shares of China’s Auk Chengdu aircraft increased by 40 % this week, as Pakistan claimed that it used AVIC fighter jets to shoot Indian warplanes during an aerial war on Wednesday.

India has not responded to Pakistan’s claims or has not acknowledged any loss of aircraft. When asked about the involvement of Chinese -made jets, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday that he was not aware of the situation.

Nevertheless, as Pakistan’s basic weapons provider, China is probably deliberately seeing how its weapons systems will potentially perform in real fighting. A growing military superpower, China, has not fought a major war in more than four decades. But under the leader Xi Jinping, he has run to modernize his armed forces, to put resources in the development of sophisticated weapons and the development of modern technologies.

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) data, it has also increased that modernization has run towards Pakistan, which has long been praised by Beijing as its “Irnncked Bhai”. The Istolum International International Imported International International Imported International International International Institute of Pakistan.

These exports include modern fighter jets, missiles, radars and air defense systems, whose experts say they will play an important role in any military dispute between Pakistan and India. Some of Pakistan -made weapons have also been developed with Chinese firms or developed with Chinese technology and expertise.

“This is a facto test environment for Chinese military exports between India and Pakistan.

Chinese and Pakistani militants have also rapidly jointly jointly, engaged in sea and land exercises, including combat imitation and even staff -changing exercises.

“Now this is not just a bilateral conflict. It is a glimpse of how Chinese defense exports are changing regional barriers.” This change – After the attack on tourists in pregnant Kashmir, the growing tension between India and Pakistan was addressed – where a major geography is an important challenge in the region.

India and Pakistan have fought three times against Kashmir since independence from Britain in 1947. During the rise of the Cold War, the Soviet Union supported India, while the United States and China supported Pakistan. Now, a new phase of enmity of power over the long -standing conflict between the South Asian neighbors equipped with nuclear weapons.

Despite its traditional policy of instability, India has approached the United States, as the US administration has later promoted the growing South Asian Dev as China’s strategic counterweight. India has promoted the purchase of weapons from the United States and its allies, including France and Israel, while permanently reduced its dependence on Russian weapons.

Meanwhile, Pakistan has deepened relations with China, and its “strategic partner of every season” and XI’s signature global infrastructure project, the Belt and Road Initiative. According to Sepri data, the United States and China provided about one -third of Pakistan’s imported weapons in the late 2000s. But Pakistan has stopped buying American weapons in recent years and has filled its weapons with Chinese weapons.

Simon Wesman, a senior researcher at the Sepri Arms Transfer Program, noted that China has been an important arms provider to Pakistan since the mid -1960s, its current dominance comes from stepping into the United States’ space.

More than a decade ago, the United States accused Pakistan of not doing enough to fight “terrorists” – including Taliban fighters – who said they were working or being provided in Pakistan. Washington’s current frustration over Islamabad’s nuclear program and lack of democracy increased, Wesman said. He added, “(US) finally found India as an alternative partner in the region. As a result, (this) removed Pakistan from American weapons.” “On the other hand, China’s weapons supply has increased significantly – one can say that China used the opportunity to show itself as Pakistan’s only real friend and ally.”

China has expressed regret over India’s military attacks against Pakistan and has demanded calm and prevention. Prior to the latest increase, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi expressed his support for Pakistan in a phone call with his counterpart, calling on China to Pakistan’s “Iron Claid friend”.

The military show

With Pakistan, China and India on a large scale source of weapons with the United States and its allies, any dispute between the two neighbors can be effectively shown between Chinese and Western military technologies.

India launched missile strikes early Wednesday morning after the killing of 26 most Indian tourists at a natural hill in Held Kashmir, which targeted several sites in Pakistan and Azad Kashmir.

Many analysts believe that missiles and other weapons were fired by French -made Rafael and Russian -made SU -30 fighter jets. Meanwhile, his air force claimed that five Indian fighter jets, a mug 29 and SU-30 fighter, claimed that it claimed that all three raffles were shot by his J-12.0cet-one Mig 29 and SU 30 fighter. More than 160 km (100 miles) limits.

“Now (IT) is being presented as the most severe engagement of the wind between two nuclear -powered countries,” said Salman Ali Baitani, a scholar of international relations at Amazam University in Islamabad. “This engagement represented a milestone in the operational use of modern Chinese -born systems.”

India has not recognized any loss of aircraft, and Pakistan has not yet provided evidence to support its claims. But a French source from the Defense Ministry said that at least one of India’s latest and most advanced warplanes, French-made Rafael Fighter Jet–was lost in the war. “If … confirmed, it shows that the weapons system in Pakistan is at least contemporary or current than the offer of Western Europe (especially France),” said Bilal Khan, founder of the Toronto -based Defense Analysis Firm.

Despite the absence of official verification and stringent evidence, Chinese nationalists and military fans have been stepping on social media to persuade what they see as the victory of Chinese -made weapons systems.

Shares of China’s government -owned Auke Chengdu aircraft, made of Pakistan’s J -10C fighter jets, closed 17 percent more on the Shenzhen Exchange on Wednesday, before the Pakistani Foreign Minister claimed that jets were used to shoot Indian aircraft. On Thursday, the company’s shares increased by 20 %.

J10C is the latest version of China’s single engine, Militerol J -10 Fighter, which entered the service with the Chinese Air Force in the early 2000s. The feature of improved weapons system and avionics, J-10C has been classified as 4.5 generation fighter-like Rafael in the same level but below the 5th-generation stealth jets, such as China’s J-20 or US F-35.

State Broadcaster CCTV reported at the time, China delivered the first batch of the J-10ce-export version-export version in 2022. Now it is the most modern fighter jet of Pakistan’s weapons, as well as JF17 Block III, a lightweight fighter of 4.5 generation that is ready with Pakistan and China.

The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) also runs a large fleet of US -made F -16s, one of them was used to shoot Soviet -designed Indian fighter jet during a flare in 2019.