China warns against attempts to carry out maritime containment, with a senior military officer telling a regional navy symposium in the eastern port city of Qingdao that such a policy would divide the world and cause turbulence.
Despite sundry differences with India, so long as the United States needs to contain China, it will feel compelled to overlook problems in its ties with Delhi.
Kakar’s use of this analogy was meant to emphasise that Pakistan’s alliance with China is unique and distinctive, bearing its own historical and geopolitical context.