'Borrowed knife' cuts against the grain of truth

It has been nearly two months since India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire to end their conflict. Although neither side admitted its inferiority, let alone defeat, in the four-day skirmish, some in India have still tried to exploit the exchange of fire to prove the country's performance in it deserves more merit.

In a regular news conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing on Monday, an Indian correspondent raised a question on remarks made by India's Deputy Chief of Army Staff Rahul R. Singh about the conflict.

Singh pointed a blaming finger at China for providing Pakistan with "material support" and "operational backing" in not only the recent conflict but also the ceasefire talks, saying that China has carried out its ancient military strategy of killing the adversary with a "borrowed knife", one of the"36 stratagems" proposed by Sun Tzu.