APROPOS the article titled ‘China syndrome’ (May 27). The writer has compared what he calls the “crude sledge hammer manner” which China has adopted in Hong Kong, with Indian atrocities in occupied Kashmir.

I feel the author is being unfair to both China and the people of occupied Kashmir. He conveniently forgets that Hong Kong was always a part of China, and that China was forced to cede her territory to the British after her defeat to the white invaders in the Opium War.

Kashmir, on the other hand, is not and never was a part of India. It is disputed territory.

Kashmir has been under curfew for the last one year. Indian troops are killing men, women and children with impunity. Hong Kong is not under curfew.

How is it that there were no disturbances and no demand for ‘special treatment’ when Hong Kong was a British colony? Everyone knows who is behind these disturbances. For that matter Taiwan is also a part of China, and everyone knows who is inciting the Taiwanese people.

Roedad Khan

Islamabad

Published in Dawn, May 30th, 2020