China monitors the interest of the performance of its weapons systems in fighting between India and Pakistan

The escalating conflict between India and Pakistan allows the world a real overview of the performance of the advanced Chinese military technology in the face of the crushed western equipment. The Chinese defense shares have already increased, as the shares of the Chinese company, “Avic Chengdu Aircraft”, increased by 40% this week, after Pakistan claimed that it had used the G-10C fighter planes produced by AVIC to shoot down Indian combat aircraft, including the advanced French “Raval”, during an air battle last Wednesday. India was not suspended on Pakistan’s allegations and has not passed any aircraft losses. When asked about the participation of Chinese -made aircraft, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said last Thursday that he was not aware of the situation.

However, as the main supplier of weapons to Pakistan, China is likely to monitor the interest of the performance of its weapons systems in real fighting, and how it can be. Being an emerging great military force, China did not have a major war for more than four decades, but during the era of leader Xi Jinping, China rushed to modernize its armed forces, devoting its resources to develop advanced weapons and technologies. It also expanded the scope of this update campaign to include Pakistan, which Beijing has always been praised and described as a “strong brother”. Over the past five years, China has provided Pakistan with 81% of imported weapons, according to the data of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

These exports include advanced combat aircraft, missiles, radars, and air defense systems. Experts say it will play a pivotal role in any military conflict between Pakistan and India. Some manufactured weapons were also developed in Pakistan, in conjunction with Chinese companies, or were manufactured with Chinese technologies and experiences.

Tactical balance

“This makes any interaction between India and Pakistan an actual test environment for Chinese military exports,” says Sajan Gohlel, the director of the International Security at the Asia Pacific Corporation, Sagan Gohlel, a London -based research institution.

The Chinese and Pakistani armies also engaged in increasingly advanced air, sea and ground maneuvers, which included combat simulation and even training in the exchange of crews.

The prominent colleague of the United States -based Democrats for Democrats, Craig Singon, said: “Beijing is long -term support for Islamabad through equipment and training, and now increasingly targeting targeted artificial intelligence has changed the tactical balance quietly.”

He continued: “This is no longer just a bilateral clash, but rather a glimpse of how to reshape Chinese defense exports to the regional deterrence force.”

This transformation, which has emerged very clearly as a result of the escalation of tensions between India and Pakistan following the killing of a tourist group in Kashmir, highlights a broader geopolitical reorganization in the region, as China has emerged as a major United States of influence. India and Pakistan fought a war on Kashmir three times since their independence from Britain in 1947.

During the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union supported India, while the United States and China supported Pakistan, and now a new era of competition between the great powers to the long -term conflict between the two nuclear neighboring neighboring in South Asia is looming on the horizon.

Despite its traditional policy of alignment, India has approached the United States more and more, as successive US administrations wooed the rising giant in South Asia as a balanced strategic weight of China. India has intensified its weapons purchases from America and its allies, including France and Israel, while reducing its reliance on Russian weapons steadily.

Meanwhile, Pakistan deepened its relations with China, becoming its “permanent strategic partner” and a major participant in the most prominent global infrastructure project, for President Xi Jinping (Belt and Road Initiative). According to the data of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, both the United States and China provided about a third of the weapons imported by Pakistan in the late first decade of the twenty -first century, but Pakistan has stopped buying US weapons in recent years, and increased its Chinese weapons imports.

The prominent researcher in the Estocked International Peace Research Institute, Simon Wizmann, notes that while China was an important supply of weapons for Pakistan since the mid -sixties, its current hegemony is largely stemming from the US -left -void bridge.

The fiercest engagement

As Pakistan gets most of its armament from China, and India obtained more than half of its weapons from the United States and its allies, any conflict between the two neighbors may actually turn into a confrontation between Chinese and Western military technologies. After weeks of the escalation of hostilities after the killing of 26 tourists, most of them from the Indians, at the hands of armed men in a mountainous area in the Indian part of Kashmir, India launched missile strikes in an early hour of morning Last Wednesday, targeting what she described as “terrorist infrastructure” in Pakistan and Pakistani part of Kashmir.

Analysts believe that missiles and ammunition were launched by the French-made Rafale, and Russian-made “Su-30” aircraft. Meanwhile, Pakistan was promoted by a great victory achieved by its air forces, claiming that five Indian fighters, three “Rafale” aircraft, the “MiG-29”, and the “Su-30” plane shot down by its “G-10C” fighters during a battle of an hour.

“This battle is now described as the most violent (Joe-Joe) between two nuclear armed states,” said Salman Ali Betani. He added, “This battle represented a milestone in the practical use of advanced Chinese systems.”

India did not recognize any losses in the aircraft, and Pakistan has not yet provided evidence to support its allegations, but a source in the French Ministry of Defense said that at least one Indian plane of the latest and most advanced warplanes, a “Rafale” plane, a French -made fighter, was lost in the battle.

“If this is confirmed, this indicates that the weapons systems available to Pakistan, at the very least, are modern compared to what Western Europe (especially France) offers,” said Bilal Khan, founder of the Defense Analysis Company, Bilal Khan, based in Toronto. Despite the absence of official confirmation and conclusive evidence, Chinese and enthusiastic nationalists resorted to social media to celebrate what they consider a victory for Chinese -made arms systems.

The shares of the company “Avic Chengdo Aircraft”, the manufacturer of the Pakistani combat aircraft “G-10C”, closed a 17% increase on the “Chentyn”, last Wednesday, even before Pakistan claimed that these aircraft were used to shoot down Indian aircraft. The shares of the company increased by an additional 20% last Thursday.

The G-10C plane is the latest version of the Chinese and multi-tasked Chinese G-10 fighter, which entered service with the Chinese Air Force in the early first decade of the twenty-first century. This aircraft is equipped with advanced air armament systems and electronics, and is classified as a fourth -generation fighter in the “Rafale” category, but it is inferior to the fifth generation ghost planes, such as the Chinese “G20” or “F -35”.

A huge batch of confidence

China handed over the first batch of the G-10C, the export designation version to Pakistan in 2022, according to the Chinese Radio and Television. It is now the most advanced combat aircraft in Pakistan’s arsenal, along with the “GF-17 Block III”, a lightweight fighter of the fourth and a half, developed by Pakistan and China jointly.

The Pakistani Air Force is also running a larger fleet of US-made F-16 aircraft, one of which was used to shoot down an Indian Soviet fighter design during a military confrontation in 2019.

Retired Colonel Zhu Po, a prominent colleague at the International Security and Strategic Security Center at the University of “Tsinghua” in Beijing, said that if the Chinese-made G-10C aircraft are used to shoot down the French-made “Rafale” aircraft, then this would be a “huge batch of confidence in Chinese arms systems.”

“This will really surprise people, especially since China has not been a war for more than four decades,” Zhu added. He continued, “This is likely to represent a strong boost for Chinese weapons sales in the international market.”

More than a decade ago, the United States accused Pakistan of not making sufficient efforts to fight “terrorists”, including Taliban fighters, who claimed that they were working from Pakistan or receiving supplies from them.

He added, “The United States has finally found India an alternative partner in the region. As a result, (the United States) was cut in one way or another by US weapons supplies from Pakistan, and on the other hand, China’s supply of weapons increased significantly.

The United States is still the largest weapons exporter in the world, with 43% of global weapons exports between 2020 and 2024, according to the data of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. This represents more than four times the share of France, which is ranked second, followed by Russia.

China is ranked fourth, with nearly two -thirds of its weapons exports to one country, Pakistan. Khan agrees that the shooting down, if confirming, will contribute significantly to strengthening the Chinese defense industry, indicating that there is likely to have an interest from “forces in the Middle East and North Africa” ​​to obtain Chinese weapons, which usually cannot reach “the latest Western technologies”.

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. The United States is still the largest weapons exporter in the world, with 43% of global weapons exports between 2020 and 2024.