The recent military engagement saw India deploy its French and US weapons against Pakistan’s new range of sophisticated Chinese arms, notes France24.

The takeaways of the May 7-10 military engagement for Yun Sun, director of the China Programme at the Washington DC-based Stimson Centre, are two-fold.

“The first one is that the Indian weapons system is not as effective as a lot of people thought they would be,” she noted. “The second takeaway is that the Indian strategic intent could be more ambitious than a lot of people had expected.”

While cautioning that it’s still too early to “jump to conclusions”, Carlotta Rinaudo, a China expert at the International Team for the Study of Security Verona, notes that perception was key in initial assessments.

“We always had the impression that Chinese weapons were the same as Chinese goods in a way. We assumed that Chinese weapons are inferior. This is not the case anymore,” Rinaudo told France24.

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