Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar’s three-day visit to China, which started on Monday, apparently aims to reaffirm that his country’s relations with China are ironclad amid the high tensions between Pakistan and India.

In his meeting with Foreign Minister Wang Yi and other Chinese officials on Tuesday, Dar thanked China for its firm support for Pakistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and vowed to further deepen the all-weather strategic partnership between China and Pakistan.

The Chinese side reiterated that it has always taken China-Pakistan relations as a diplomatic priority and is willing to deepen cooperation and promote the building of a closer China-Pakistan community with a shared future.

Despite this, those thinking Islamabad is trying to leverage its relations with Beijing to steer the situation in South Asia so that it develops in its favor are misreading the situation.

That Wang stressed China will, as always, firmly support........

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