Thiruvananthapuram, May 8 -- Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday said that China "did not take much of a pro-Pakistan stand" amid current tensions between India and Pakistan following Pahalgam terror attack and said the Indian market is all the more important to Beijing today in the Trumpian world of high tariffs.

He also said that China needs India in a way that it never needed before.

India carried out Operation Sindoor early on Wednesday with precision strikes hitting nine terrorist infrastructure sites in Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir in response to the Pahalgam terror strike in which 26 people were killed.

Tharoor told ANI that Russia, France, and Israel have specifically shown understanding for India's r...