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\nChina\u2019s repeated move to block efforts at the UN to list Pakistan-based JeM chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist \u201cgrievously undermines\u201d its narrative about the need to take a tougher line on terrorism and is harming its ties with India, top US experts said today.<\/p>\n
Last week, China for the fourth time had blocked a bid at the UN by the US, France, and Britain to list Azhar as a global terrorist, citing a lack of consensus among the members of the Al-Qaeda Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s an unfortunate move on China\u2019s part and I question the logic of continuing to block sanctions on known Pakistan-based terrorists at the United Nations,\u201d Jeff Smith, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation said.<\/p>\n
Smith said China was \u201cclearly\u201d seeing its action as a favour to its all-weather friend, Pakistan.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the policy is increasingly undermining China\u2019s own strategic interests and stated foreign policy objectives,\u201d he said, noting that in September, China had, for the first time, relented to including specific criticism of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and other Pakistani terror outfits in the statement issued at the BRICS summit in Xiamen.<\/p>\n
According to Rick Rossow from Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), an American think-tank, China\u2019s latest move affirmed Delhi\u2019s belief in Sino-Pakistani collusion. \u201cBy supporting this decision, China could have taken an important step to restart its ties with Delhi, yet Beijing chose a different path,\u201d Rossow said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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