2.3.19

Don’t recognise India, Pak as N-states: China

China said it has never recognised India and Pakistan as nuclear states. The Chinese foreign ministry said this while replying to a question on whether Beijing would recognise North Korea as a nuclear state as in case of India and Pakistan.

“China has never recognised India and Pakistan as nuclear countries,” foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said. China has held back accepting India as a nuclear state because it wanted to keep New Delhi out of the NSG.

Beijing has been blocking India’s repeated attempts to enter NSG on the ground that New Delhi has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

China continues to judge India at the same level as Pakistan, which has a history of nuclear theft and exports.

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