Murtaza Shibli, kashmirnarrator.com
The death of Burhan Wani in July 2016, that provoked Kashmiris into a mass rebellion, severely challenged the narratives of status quo as advanced by India and Pakistan. The events that followed also nullified the respective policy prescriptions of the two countries that had been put in place for the management of the dispute, and its socio-political and emotional trajectories.
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Though there has been no substantive change in the Chinese stance [JB -- I assume, via India/Pakistan/Kashmir?], one cannot fail to notice a marked shift in its position as indicated through active public diplomacy [JB emphasis] as well as procedural pronouncements on the issue from time to time. In the post-July 2016 setting, the Chinese ‘counsels’ to solve the problem peacefully have become more salient and frequent. This is quite important and can have a galvanizing power in influencing the public discourse at local and regional level because China controls a large part of the territory of the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state, and is, therefore, a de facto party to the dispute and its emergent new equations. Besides, as the Chinese flagship One Belt One Road initiate under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor has a strong footprint in Gilgit-Baltistan and a significant presence in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, the future of the Chinese economic activity and interest is deeply embedded to the region. ...
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