China hopes of better Pakistan, India ties after inclusion in SCO
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China has stated it hopes Pakistan and India will "improve their relations" after they are inducted as members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) later this month.
Speaking at a briefing in Beijing, the spokesperson of Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hua Chunying, stated: "We sincerely hope that after their admission, India and Pakistan will act in strict accordance with the SCO Charter and the Treaty on Long-term Good-neighbourliness, Friendship and Cooperation, work for the shared goal, conduct friendly cooperation, uphold the Shanghai spirit, improve their relations and add fresh impetus to the development of the SCO."
Founded in 2001, the SCO is comprised of six member states, mainly focusing on military cooperation between the members which involves intelligence sharing and counter-terrorism operations in Central Asia.
The next summit is slated to be held later this month Astana, Kazakhstan where Pakistan and India ─ who until now have been observers -- will be the first nations to be inducted as members since the formation of the organisation.
Commenting on the seating arrangements of the journalists at the briefing, Chunying said, "I see the journalist from Pakistan sit right here, while journalists from India sit over there. Maybe someday you can sit closer to each other."
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Jun 02, 2017 03:07am
India has already granted most favoured nation to Pakistan long time back. Pakistan should capitalise it to maximum and reciprocate to make maximum gain out of it.
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Jun 02, 2017 03:58am
India is a hegemonic power, as it has frequently demonstrated. It bullies smaller states, annexed Sikkim and Goa which were independent states when India was founded.
They believe this territory is sacred, like Lahore is the birthplace of Rama, et cetera. But the people living in the territory are despised, if they aren't born to Brahman families. They must have done "bad things in past lives" to be born lower-caste, and it's acceptable to abuse them!
With India, Pakistan's founding father Jinnah was right when he said "Weakness invites aggression". To get along with India, we need a very strong Pakistan.
China should get out of it's daydreams about India and Pakistan being best-buds. India will inevitably fall into America's lap as a tool against China.
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Jun 02, 2017 04:07am
China should mind its own business.
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Jun 02, 2017 04:11am
chinese are trying to rebuild an empire and they will use anyone for that purpose, be careful !!!
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Jun 02, 2017 04:20am
Its not just hope, rather it is clear warning to Pakistan. Better resolve issues and have a good relationship with India
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Jun 02, 2017 04:30am
There is no point making generic statements.
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Jun 02, 2017 05:01am
No organization or country can bring India-Pakistan closer then they themselves.
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Jun 02, 2017 05:20am
The last sentence from the chinese spokeswomen tells all about or chequered history, negative attitude, animosity and trust deficit. We are two most egoistic nations in the world.I doubt we will be able to fill the gaps at SCO, in fact with Modi there things will further go down the hill.
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Jun 02, 2017 05:25am
China should work towards bringing peace in this region. South China sea is the disputed region and China should cooperate with all other countries as per the international law of free water navigation. Also, it should work with India, Japan, Taiwan, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Vietnaam, South Korea to fix border dispute.
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Jun 02, 2017 05:37am
Let's give peace a chance.
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Jun 02, 2017 05:47am
Expecting India to share military intelligence with Pakistan and China? Ha, what a joke.
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Jun 02, 2017 05:52am
Pakistan and India must sit together and talk on the pending issues maturely and come to the conclusion because without it no matter which country supports either of us there will never be peace and smaller factions will continue to gain momentum spreading fear through terrorism and extremism. No matter how India tries to isolate Pakistan and how Pakistan tries to isolate India there will always be negative impacts and both sides would lose. End these childish bashing and sit together and fix the issues. Maybe conduct joint military exercise, share security information to destroy sleeper cells and terrorist hideouts along with weapon channels.
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Jun 02, 2017 06:01am
Let Indian & Pakistan journalists sit together, you find it difficult to differentiate them once they mingled.Ofcourse SCO could be a forum to calm down, and talk bilateral issues in more conducive atmosphere.
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Jun 02, 2017 06:03am
When the very raison d'être of the existence of one side has been the annihilation of the other in terms of ideology, culture, outlook, faith, blocking trade - what cooperation can we ever expect?
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Jun 02, 2017 06:24am
SCO is just a show piece like OBOR and CPEC. Economically only favouring China.
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Jun 02, 2017 07:13am
Maybe someday China will stop fighting with all its neighbours around the South China Sea and with India and will sit down peacefully with all of them.
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Jun 02, 2017 07:37am
China should ms.ind its own business as we Indians know how to have better relation within the international community. On the contrary China should learn how to have better relations with the international community. It has worst relations with Japan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Philippines, India etc, Please stop your sermans to other countries
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Jun 02, 2017 07:40am
China would not want SCO to be wrecked by int Pakistan bickering. Will be interesting to see Pakistan govt response in view of their policy to internationalise Kashmir issue at every international forum
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Jun 02, 2017 07:58am
This is silly would problems between indo-pak were waiting for SCO membership to get resolved.
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Jun 02, 2017 08:00am
Modi and Xi Jinping are in Europe for assessing the direction the European Union will go in the coming years.
Modi has already moved fast to make maximum out of Brexit and EU for increasing economic ties and overall trade through his present tour of Germany, Spain and France. At the same time he is visiting Trump end of June after SCO meeting. He has signed Nuclear Plants Treaty with Russia.
Pakistan should not depend only on China and should make sure India does not unduly create imbalances in and disturb peace in the Region.
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Jun 02, 2017 08:02am
India has to be careful in SCO, because China might use it as some kind tool to make India to accept the CPEC OBOR. That will flood Chinese goods to Indian market.
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Jun 02, 2017 08:27am
Whole world wishes and hopes that Pakistan and India to live in peace & prosperity and work together for better South Asia and better world.
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Jun 02, 2017 09:09am
Chinese want to please India. So is this gimmick. They felt impact of India 's absence in OBOR, hence offering some thing else. To keep the balance Pakistan is also included in the sco
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Jun 02, 2017 09:24am
Welcome move from China.
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Jun 02, 2017 09:28am
After Islamic NATO, now coming Chinese NATO(SCO). Trump must be aware that china is tortoise and USA hare. I hope he understand what I mean. Slowly but steadily China is becoming the undeclared super power if we count the nations in its lap.America wants rich friends whereas China love poor nations. So the vote bank in case of WWIII will be in favour of China.
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Jun 02, 2017 09:37am
I am sorry to say this but China should not have any hopes of this nature because there are vested interests who would not like to see any improvement in Pakistan-India relations for their own gains.
Anything is possible in this world but not friendship between Pakistan and India.
Mark my words.
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Jun 02, 2017 09:38am
Why is Pakistan constantly looking for an intermediary to broker peace with India- be it China or the US or Russia? No external forces will be able to heal the wounds of India caused by Pakistan unless Pakistan itself does that. How India and Pakistan are going to mend fences after joining SCO- have they given the mandate to that entity to do that? Did the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson comment on how China is going to solve the border issue with India or the issues relating to Arunachal Pradesh after India becomes a member of the SCO? If it is not going to achieve that with India itself, how is it hoping that the SCO membership will help improve the relationship between India and Pakistan? Will China cease to oppose India's membership to the NSG or the UN Security Council after that event? Let not the Pakistani media hunt for comments from China to know where the wind is blowing. Instead try to solve your troubles with India directly.
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Jun 02, 2017 09:43am
Bangladesh on the other hand is eyeing to become 6th permanent member of the Security Council
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Jun 02, 2017 09:52am
I don't think India will even listen to what China speaks about India, will not waste a single minute.
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