Guwahati, June 29 -- If India was waiting for a cathartic pause in its recently concluded war with Pakistan, then the latest Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meet should have provided the opportunity to proclaim to the world that terrorism of the sort that Pakistan perpetrated in Pahalgam will not be tolerated. However, the Chinese-led document omitting Rawalpindi's unabashed vehemence in a Valley that was witnessing peace is unacceptable.

It is interesting that the globe-or a sizeable part of it-did not endorse India's stand against terror. It showcased that terror decreed by a client state (which Pakistan is of China) is passe, even if it approximates the Islamist terror that has been characterizing China's Xinjiang. Beijing's d...