ISAS Insights

India’s “surgical strikes” at the “terrorist launch pads” in an area controlled by Pakistan in late-September 2016 – an event that Islamabad has vigorously sought to dispute – have produced an altogether new dynamic in the deeply-chequered relations between these two South Asian neighbours. Significantly, China – Pakistan’s “all-weather strategic partner” – has made nuanced statements that reveal its heightened stake in the evolving situation. The paper evaluates this triangular equation.