It showed the world how close the two Asian neighbors have become and how China suddenly wants everyone else to know. Military cooperation between China and Pakistan is growing, and becoming more ostentatious, because they’re unabashedly teaming up against the world’s second most populous country. Pakistan and India separately dispute control over the Jammu and Kashmir region between them. That…has arguably grown more important to China as India rises and US-India ties deepen.”Pakistan befriended China by recognizing it diplomatically in the relatively early year of 1950. “Pakistan is unambiguously China's closest military partner, but the two sides have tended to be somewhat discreet about it,” Small says.

Source: Forbes March 26, 2017 21:56 UTC