The Other Occupier: Unveiling China’s Hidden Occupation in Kashmir
For decades, the world has viewed the Kashmir conflict as a binary contest between India and Pakistan, a deeply rooted territorial dispute born in the aftermath of the 1947 Partition. With both nations claiming the region in full but governing in parts, global attention has long focused on their political, military, and ideological rivalry. However, this narrow lens ignores a critical third player, China , whose involvement in Kashmir is not passive or peripheral, but actively rooted in territorial occupation and expansionist strategy. Just as China has unlawfully occupied East Turkestan (now known as Xinjiang), turning it into a surveillance-heavy, repressed zone under the Chinese Communist Party, it has similarly entrenched itself in key parts of Kashmir , often without significant global scrutiny. The time has come to expose this uncomfortable truth: China is an occupier in Kashmir , and its actions must be acknowledged, discussed, and challenged just as forcefully as those o...