Aseismic shift is underway in South Asia’s security architecture, as the Pak-China strategic partnership matures into a formidable alliance with lasting implications for the region’s balance of power. This deepening relationship is no longer confined to economic or sporadic military cooperation-it has now become an institutionalised axis of strategic alignment that directly challenges India’s traditional regional dominance.

China’s growing strategic credibility in South Asia has elevated Pakistan’s position in the regional power equation.

Over the past decade, Islamabad and Beijing have transformed their bilateral ties into a durable framework of mutual defence, shared threat perceptions and synchronised diplomacy. The two nations are constructing a long-term framework aimed at countering Indian unilateralism. This partnership has evolved into a counterweight to India’s regional outreach, constraining its strategic freedom and compelling a recalibration of its defence and foreign policy outlook. At the heart of this evolution lies the steady enhancement of joint military preparedness between Pakistan and China. Unlike earlier decades when........

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