India needs to verify and then trust China, a leading Chinese Studies expert has said, noting that there has been no disengagement so far along the LAC with China in eastern Ladakh, Beijing has had double standards on cross-border terrorism faced by India, it provided information to Pakistan during Operation Sindoor and has announced world’s biggest dam project on upper reaches of Brahmputra despite India’s concerns.

In an interview with ANI, Professor Srikanth Kondapalli, Chinese Studies Expert at JNU, said that when the Pahalgam terror attack took place on April 22, in which 26 people were killed, one of the terrorists was carrying a Huawei phone with a Chinese satellite connection.

The terrorist, he said, was messaging back to Pakistan after the Pahalgam attacks and “there is a Chines

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