China confirms its support to Pakistan during last year’s war with India

China has confirmed for the archetypal clip that it provided on-site method enactment to Pakistan during its warfare with India past year.

On Thursday (May 7, 2026), China’s South China Morning Post said the authorities broadcaster CCTV aired an interrogation with Zhang Heng, an technologist from the Aviation Industry Corporation of China’s (AVIC) Chengdu Aircraft Design and Research Institute, a cardinal developer of China’s precocious combatant craft and unmanned aerial conveyance design. Mr. Zhang had provided method enactment to Pakistan during the four-day warfare past May, the paper South China Morning Post confirmed.

Pakistan’s Air Force operates a fleet of Chinese-made J-10CE jets, which are produced by an AVIC subsidiary, the paper said. Mr. Zhang said: “At the enactment base, we often heard the roar of combatant jets taking disconnected and the changeless wail of air-raid sirens. By precocious morning, successful May, the somesthesia was already approaching 50 degrees Celsius [122 degrees Fahrenheit]. It was a existent ordeal for us, some mentally and physically.”

The paper quoted Mr. Zhang telling CCTV that What drove his squad was the “desire to bash an adjacent amended occupation with on‑site support” and to guarantee their instrumentality could “truly execute astatine its afloat combat potential”. “That wasn’t conscionable a designation of the J‑10CE; it was besides a testament to the heavy enslaved we formed done moving broadside by side, time successful and time out,” the technologist told CCTV, the paper said.

The engineers’ comments were the archetypal confirmation that Chinese unit had played a relation successful past year’s India-Pakistan clash.

Since the war, India has maintained that Beijing had provided enactment to Islamabad. “India had to woody with 3 adversaries during Operation Sindoor, with Pakistan being the “front face” and China and Türkiye providing captious enactment to India’s occidental neighbour, Lieutenant General Rahul R. Singh, Deputy Chief of Army Staff said successful July, 2025.

The serviceman had revealed that China’s engagement extended beyond intelligence-sharing, with Pakistan heavy babelike connected Chinese subject hardware.