ISLAMABAD: After Donald Trump’s repeated mentions of India-Pakistan war, US Congress report also declared Pakistan successful in the May 2025 war.
The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) report highlighted Pakistan-China’s strong ties, stating that “Pakistan’s military success over India in its four-day clash showcased Chinese weaponry. While characterization of this conflict as a ‘proxy war’ may overstate China’s role as an instigator, Beijing leveraged the conflict to test and advertise the sophistication of its weapons, useful in the contexts of its ongoing border tensions with India and its expanding defence industry goals. As Pakistan’s largest defence supplier, China provided approximately 82 percent of the country’s arms imports from 2019 to 2023.”
“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. That same month, Pakistan announced a 20 percent increase in its 2025–2026 defence budget, raising planned expenditures to $9 billion despite an overall budget decrease. In the weeks after the conflict, Chinese embassies hailed the successes of its systems in the India-Pakistan clash, seeking to bolster weapons sales,” the congress report said.
“In November and December 2024, China and Pakistan held the three-week Warrior-VIII counterterrorism drills, and in February 2025, China’s navy participated in Pakistan’s multinational AMAN drills, highlighting China’s and Pakistan’s growing defence cooperation. India’s commentators viewed the drills as losses in their relationship with China and as direct security threats to its territorial positions,” the report read.
Earlier today, US President Donald Trump once again said that he stopped the India-Pakistan May 2025 war that was almost ready to start again.
Speaking to reporters in a joint press conference along with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is in US for the first time in seven years, at his Oval Office, Trump said, “I’ve stopped eight wars… I’ve actually stopped eight wars. We stopped India and Pakistan. I could go through the list… I’m very proud. I stopped one that was almost ready to start again.”
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