India, March 18 -- Exercising its veto this month in the United Nations Security Council to block Hafiz Saeed being tagged an international terrorist, the Peoples Republic of China may well have stopped the fifth war between India and Pakistan.
Defence and strategic experts have worried over the calibrated confrontation between the two countries getting out of hand, with general elections in India tempting prime minister Narendra Modi to go the whole hog after his perhaps two surgical strikes, as he calls them and his home minister Raj Nath Singh counts them, and the air strike into an alleged training camp run by Masood Azhar in Balakot close to Islamabad, the capital.
The general election poses a challenge to Modi. He promised the twin...