New Delhi : US congressional panel has pushed Operation Sindoor back into the spotlight, alleging that China used the brief India-Pakistan flare-up in May to “test and promote” its own latest military hardware. The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission said Beijing treated the four-day hostilities between India and Pakistan as a live testing ground.
Beijing opportunistically leveraged the conflict to test and advertise the sophistication of its weapons, useful in the context of its ongoing border tensions with India and its expanding defence industry goals, the report stated. As per report, this was the first time China’s modern platforms — the HQ-9 air-defence system, PL-15 air-to-air missiles, and J-10 fighter jets — were deployed in actual combat, giving Beijing data and publicity.
205 China reportedly offered to sell 40 J-35 fifth-generation fighter jets, KJ-500 aircraft, and ballistic missile defence systems to Pakistan in June 2025, the report claimed. The May 7-10 India-Pakistan clash, triggered by the deadly terror strike in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam which killed 26 civilians, quickly escalated into one of the fiercest military confrontations the two nuclear-armed neighbours have seen in years.
According to French intelligence, China initiated a disinformation campaign to hinder sales of French Rafales in favor of its own J-35s, and it used fake social media accounts to propagate AI and video game images of supposed debris from the planes China’s weaponry destroyed, it added. India traced the Pahalgam assault to handlers across the border and launched Operation Sindoor on May 7, hitting terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK).
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