Goa, July 5 -- India confronted not just Pakistan but also significant support from China and Turkey during the four-day conflict under Operation Sindoor earlier this year, a senior military official revealed on Friday. Lieutenant General Rahul R Singh, Deputy Chief of Army Staff (Capability Development and Sustenance), said China leveraged the confrontation as a live testing ground for its military hardware supplied to Pakistan, effectively using Islamabad as a proxy to advance its strategic interests against New Delhi.

"China provided real-time intelligence on Indian troop and weapon deployments," Singh said at a conference on New Age Military Technologies organised by FICCI, highlighting Beijing's tactic of "killing with a borrowed kn...