Congress Hits Out at Centre Over China’s India-Pak Mediation Claim
Jairam Ramesh, in a post on X, expressed concern over China’s claim, noting that Beijing has close defence ties with Pakistan and is a major arms supplier to Islamabad
New Delhi: Congress MP Jairam Ramesh launched a scathing attack against the Centre after Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi claimed Beijing’s role in mediating the India-Pakistan standoff, terming it a “joke” on New Delhi’s national security.
After United States President Donald Trump repeatedly claimed that Washington stopped a potential war between India and Pakistan, China has also claimed its role in mediating tensions amid the four-day conflict following Operation Sindoor.
Jairam Ramesh, in a post on X, expressed concern over China’s claim, noting that Beijing has close defence ties with Pakistan and is a major arms supplier to Islamabad.
The Congress leader wrote that President Trump has long claimed he personally intervened to halt Operation Sindoor on May 10, 2025, repeating the claim on 65 occasions across multiple countries, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi has never responded to these assertions.
“Now the Chinese Foreign Minister makes a similar claim and says China also mediated. On July 4, 2025, the Deputy Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Rahul Singh, had publicly stated that during Operation Sindoor, India was actually confronting and combating China,” Ramesh said.
He added that given China’s decisive alignment with Pakistan, Beijing’s claim of mediation is concerning and directly contradicts what Indians have been led to believe, making “a joke of our national security itself.”
Further, Ramesh criticised Prime Minister Modi, alleging that India’s re-engagement with China has been on Beijing’s terms, and demanded clarification from the Centre on Wang Yi’s statement.
He cited the Prime Minister’s remarks of June 19, 2020, the growing trade deficit with China, continued Chinese actions related to Arunachal Pradesh, and India’s dependence on Chinese imports, calling the bilateral relationship lopsided and hostile.
“Amidst such a relationship, the people of India need clarity on what role China played in the abrupt halt to Operation Sindoor,” Ramesh said in his post.
The remarks come after Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, speaking at the Symposium on the International Situation and China’s Foreign Relations, claimed that Beijing had mediated in several global conflicts, including tensions between India and Pakistan, according to a statement shared by the Chinese Foreign Ministry on X.
“To build peace that lasts, we have taken an objective and just stance… we mediated in northern Myanmar, the Iranian nuclear issue, the tensions between Pakistan and India, the issues between Palestine and Israel, and the recent conflict between Cambodia and Thailand,” Wang said.
Wang’s comments come months after India and Pakistan were locked in a brief but intense military confrontation in May, triggered by a terror attack in the Pahalgam valley of Jammu and Kashmir on April 22, which claimed 26 lives.
India responded with Operation Sindoor, targeting terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
India has consistently rejected any claims of third-party mediation, maintaining that the four-day confrontation was resolved through direct military-to-military communication.
New Delhi has said that after sustaining heavy damage, Pakistan’s Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) called his Indian counterpart, and both sides agreed to stop all firing and military action on land, air, and sea with effect from May 10.