Yes, you read it right. China funds terrorists under the blanket. But, why does the second richest nation on the globe have a noteworthy reason to fund terrorism? 

Doesn't make sense right ? Let's get into a bit of geographical history first. After the brutal First Indo-Pakistan war of 1947, the UN Security Council brokered to cease fire and drew the Line Of Control(LOC) which looks something like this. 


After the cease fire, the pakistani militias ( Lashkar e taiba, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front etc.,) rose to power in the Indian side of Kashmir. The main aim of these terror groups is to liberate Kashmir from India and merge it into Pakistan. Now, ends the History of the well known Indo-Pak dispute over Kashmir, so what does it have to do with China funding terrorism. 

In a massively growing economy like the Chineese, Energy is the heart of the growth, and China by its geography neither has it's own dependable energy resources nor is it well conneted to the ones who do. So China started a sea route from it's capital Beijing to the Middle East, which stretched to a massive 13,000 kms. Which is around 4 times the length of India. This being a massive distance, took  a lot of time and consumed a lot of fuel to bring oil back to the Main Land China. The trade route looks like the one in the image. 

The Chineese being smart did find an alternative to this problem. They then created a China-Pakistan Special Economic Corridor which passes through the heart of Pakistan leading to Gwadar port as shown in the picture in dark pink. Now China accessed the Middle east by travelling less than 3000 kilometers. They hence laid pipelines through pakistan promising them a long time partnership, investment and job opportunities in the country. This change in the route enabled China to tackle the problem of oil with least cost at lowest time and giving their naval base a very strong hold in the Indian Ocean. This initially seemed to be a very benificial scheme to the pakistanis but over time they realised that they fell into a debt so big that they couldn't pay even the interest of the principal borrowed, thus they became puppets in the hands of Chineese. So back to the question, why do the Chineese have to fund terrorism.



Look at the above picture, Pakistan(without Kashmir) doesn't even share a single kilometer borderline with China, but after the international border drawn by UNSC, China now shares around 300 kms border with Pakistan, this new border opened route to the Chineese and allowed the oil underground pipelines to be laid througout the country. But if India regains power over Kashmir, all the oil pipelines laid would be doomed and China will have to go back to the 13,000kms route which will drastically slow down the economic growth of the country. But, China wouldn't want this to happen, so they have been funding the terror organisations in Kashmir to revolt against India so as to have a stronghold in the region. Recently China also veetoed the international terrorist tag on the brainchild of LET(Lashkar e taiba). All these actions clearly prove that China funds terrorism and wouldn't want India to regain control over Kashmir. 


Now comes a simple question in peoples mind, if China is so desperate about the pipeline routes, why can't it ally with India and do the same ? 

Ans : Two lions can never share a territory, China knows that India definitely has the potential to become an Asian Super Power and hence they don't wish to install so much in India and provide India with an economic push, since the Chineese are well aware that the Pakistanis are no where near being a Superpower the story ended up like this.