A new report from a US congressional panel has pushed Operation Sindoor back into the spotlight , alleging that China used the brief India-Pakistan flare-up in May to "test and promote" its own latest military hardware.

The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission said Beijing treated the four-day hostilities between India and Pakistan as a live testing ground, using the moment to demonstrate the reach and refinement of its latest weapon systems while avoiding any direct role in the escalation.

"Beijing opportunistically leveraged the conflict to test and advertise the sophistication of its weapons, useful in the context of its ongoing border tensions with India and its expanding defence industry goals," the report stated.

According to the report, this was the first time China

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