What was China’s attitude in Kargil war?
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China has long supported Pakistan as a counterbalance to Indian power in the region. However, while geopolitical constants will guarantee Chinese and Indian competition in the long term, short and mid term concerns may be causing China to temper its support for Islamabad. In the short term, China is concerned with the growing Islamic fundamentalism in Pakistan, and Islamabad's willingness to export it to neighboring states. Pakistan supports the Afghan Taleban militia, as well as fundamentalist mujahedeen in Kashmir. The Taleban, in turn, have reportedly not only supported the Kashmiri fighters, but have rendered assistance to Moslem Uighur separatists in China's western Xinjiang region. Uighur separatism has been a growing concern for Beijing, not only due to increasing violence in Xinjiang, but also due to reported Uighur attacks throughout China. The Moslem quarter in Beijing was recently razed in the interests, officially, of urban renewal.
In his talks with Aziz, Li Peng made a point of stressing China's belief that foreign interests should stay out of other nations' domestic ethnic conflicts. Said Li, "Ethnic issues have always been complicated and sensitive. As these issues are the internal affairs of a country, no external forces should interfere with them. Each country should formulate correct ethnic policies in accordance with its own national conditions and properly deal with its own ethnic issues, so as to maintain ethnic unity, social stability, and economic development." While Li used Kosovo as an example, China's refusal to back Pakistan's decision to send mercenaries and, possibly, Pakistani Army troops to Kashmir may therefore be a signal that Pakistan has taken China's support a bit too much for granted in its behavior vis a vis Xinjiang.
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The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict,[note (I)] was an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place between May and July 1999 in the Kargil district of Kashmir and elsewhere along the Line of Control (LOC). In India, the conflict is also referred to as Operation Vijay (Hindi: विजय, literally "Victory") which was the name of the Indian operation to clear the Kargil sector.[21] The Indian Air Force's role in acting jointly with Ground troops during the War that was aimed at flushing out Regular and Irregular troops of the Pakistani Army from vacated Indian Positions in the Kargil sector along the Line of Control.[22] was given the code name Operation Safed Sagar (Hindi: ऑपरेशन सफेद सागर, lit. "Operation White Sea")
Pakistani soldiers disguised as Kashmiri militants into positions on the Indian side of the LOC,[23] which serves as the de facto border between the two states. During the initial stages of the war, Pakistan blamed the fighting entirely on independent Kashmiri insurgents, but documents left behind by casualties and later statements by Pakistan's Prime Minister and Chief of Army Staff showed involvement of Pakistani paramilitary forces,[24][25][26] led by General Ashraf Rashid.[27] The Indian Army, later supported by the Indian Air Force, recaptured a majority of the positions on the Indian side of the LOC infiltrated by the Pakistani troops and militants. Facing international diplomatic opposition, the Pakistani forces withdrew from the remaining Indian positions along the LOC.
The war is one of the most recent examples of high-altitude warfare in mountainous terrain, which posed significant logistical problems for the combating sides. It is also one of the very few instances of direct, conventional warfare between nuclear states (i.e., those possessing nuclear weapons). India had conducted its first successful test in 1974; Pakistan, which had been developing its nuclear capability in secret since around the same time, conducted its first known tests in 1998, just two weeks after a second series of tests by India.