http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_2020000/2020788.stm

Sunday, 2 June, 2002, 01:40 GMT 02:40 UK

Analysis

By - Michael Yahuda (Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science)

China has long been involved in a triangular relationship with Pakistan and India, and is now a reluctant and silent third party to the dispute over Kashmir.

Beijing has traditionally supported Pakistan against India, but now in the post-Cold War era the Chinese have distanced themselves somewhat from Pakistan in order to cultivate better relations with India.

Nevertheless China has a strategic interest in the survival of Pakistan and it will not want to see it drawn into a war which it cannot win, nor will it want to see its government humiliated.

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