1/n Some thoughts on the recent veto by China on the JeM founder...

@CestMoiz
Harpreet@CestMoiz
3 views Aug 15, 2025 ~2 min read
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Some thoughts on the recent veto by China on the JeM founder Masood Azhar being branded as a terrorist by the UN.
Firstly, this is NOT..
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.. the first time China has done that. Pakistan has been obliged by a Chinese Veto EACH AND EVERY TIME in past this thing came up in UN.
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What might be Chinese motivation in doing so can be debated.
It could be for any reason varying from obliging Pakistan to ensure it ..
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.. continues being a de facto Chinese colony in future too, to a possible (implied or otherwise) blackmail by Pakistan on calibrating ..
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..the insurgency in Xinjiang province.
Doesn't really matter.
What matters is that China will continue to look at India as a potential..
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.. adversary at the regional as well as global stage. And that is something that will never change as long as India and China continue..
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.. to share a common political boundary due to Chinese occupation of Tibet.
The veto has already happened.
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That cannot be changed.
What can be changed is our response. China effectively joins Pakistan as a State sponsor of Terrorism with ..
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.. this veto.
Thus far, there's hardly been any response to previous vetoes.
But then, no one can bully you unless you allow them to.
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One can start small.
Chinese IT / telecom companies such as Lenovo, Huawei, ZTE are already under scanner by Indian companies for ..
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.. possible malware in their hardware that can compromise critical national telecom infrastructure. Countries such as Australia and ..
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.. US have banned them outright.
Yet they continue to operate in India with impunity. Just imagine how many government officers must ..
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.. be using Lenovo laptops for personal / official use, even while the US Navy has banned them outright. infosecurity-magazine.com/news/us-navy-d…
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To make the Chinese hurt, in whatever little way for supporting terrorism against India, a clampdown on Chinese cmptr / telecom ..
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.. companies will go part of the distance in doing this - sending across a message as well as securing critical national telecom ..
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..infrastructure from potential breaches by a country known for this world over. In fact Huawei is often suspected 2b an out and out ..
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.. PLA front company.
In the end, as @commandersaini just mentioned, there is no alternative to indigenous solutions for such ..
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.. critical hardware.
Maybe this can be a start?
About time we start punching in our own weight category, NOT below it.
JMTs
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