BEIJING – India’s decision to scrap the special status of Indian heldKashmir increased regional instability and would surely backfire on India’sinterest in the end, Chinese experts said urging India to peacefullyresolve its conflict with Pakistan.
The escalating tensions in Kashmir would pose a severe challenge to India’sand the whole region’s security, Zhao Gancheng, director of the Center forAsia-Pacific Studies at the Shanghai Institute for International Studiestold the Global Times.
Hu Zhiyong, a research fellow at the Institute of International Relationsof the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, warned that India’s move couldinvite a possible war between the two countries.
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This move also caused concern over the possible oppression in thepredominantly Muslim territory, and would invite criticism from the Muslimworld, Hu said.
