China Provided Pakistan Satellite Support: Report

China provided Pakistan with support in air defense and satellite during the recent India Pakistan escalation, according to the Centre For Joint Warfare Studies - a research group under the Ministry of Defence of India, Bloomberg reported.

According to the research group, China helped Pakistan reorganize its radar and air defense systems to easily detect India’s deployments of troops and weaponry, according to Ashok Kumar, director general at the Centre For Joint Warfare Studies.

Furthermore, China helped Pakistan adjust its satellite coverage over India after the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack.

“It helped them to redeploy their air defense radar so that any actions which we do from the aerial route is known to them,” Kumar said.

The government of India has not publicly detailed China’s involvement in the latest escalation, Pakistan on the other hand said the country used Chinese-supplied weapons, as per Bloomberg.

Kumar further said China used the India-Pakistan escalation as a testing ground for its weapons. He added that the performance of the Chinese defense systems were below average and “failed miserably” in some instances, citing an Indian military assessment.

India’s defense systems reacted well and an integrated network of censors gave advantage over Pakistan’s use of drones in the escalation, Kumar said, as per Bloomberg.

Kumar stated that any future tension with Pakistan would mean that India must also account for the probability that China will provide assistance to the former. Vice versa, Pakistan will also enter the escalation between India and China, Kumar said.

“India now factors in a two-front situation in almost all its calculations,” Kumar said. “Anything which is with China today can be deemed to be with Pakistan tomorrow,” Bloomberg reported.

The Centre For Joint Warfare Studies’ website says that the organization is “An Autonomous Think Tank Promoting Integration and Jointness as a Synergistic Enabler of National Power, Providing Policy Alternatives Through Research and Debate”

The organization’s advisory board includes India’s defence minister Rajnath Singh, General Anil Chauhan,  Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh, Rajesh Kumar Singh, amongst others.