masterchief_mirza
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Pragmatically speaking, ignoring the emotional angle of loyalty to historical friends (which is still noteworthy and perhaps as you said - more of an eastern phenomenon rooted in ancient tribal tradition and customs across Asia), China still needs to alter the unipolar tilt of world power following the collapse of USSR. A USA dominant group is not in China's long term interests as a rival superpower. Even if India vanished tomorrow, China would keep Pakistan in its inner circle of its own "Warsaw pact" style grouping.US interest's aligned with Pakistan as long as there was a USSR.
Do you think China's interest will always align with Pakistan if either China or Pakistan (or both) make peace with India?
There are no permanent allies and enemies in geopolitics. Relationships are transactional and issue based.
Having said that, if China has not dumped North Korea despite the headache it has carried over the years (with no apparent benefit for China), I doubt it will dump Pakistan so easily. Perhaps China (or rather the CCP) values long term relationships more than the Western colonialists.