<span style="color: #222222;">The Chinese double speak has come to the fore once again. At a press conference in Beijing, the foreign ministry spokesman parried a direct response to its stand on Pakistan granting provincial status to Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Using an oft repeated cliché, he said it is an issue left over from history between India and Pakistan.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The seemingly quiet response of the Chinese establishment vis a vis Pakistan's move in forcibly occupied Gilgit-Baltistan exposes its diatribe against India scrapping article 370 from Jammu & Kashmir in August last year.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">It may be recalled that China had made protests at that time but now chose to remain quiet on Pakistan in its effort to make changes in Gilgit Baltistan.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">India has firmly rejected attempts by Pakistan to bring material changes to a part of Indian territory, under its illegal and forcible occupation.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">It has made clear that the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, including the area of so-called "Gilgit-Baltistan", are an integral part of India by virtue of the legal, complete and irrevocable accession of Jammu and Kashmir to the Union of India in 1947.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The so-called claims made by Beijing that countries have shown interest in joining China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) have also fallen flat.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">When asked to name which other country has shown interest, the Chinese foreign ministry even failed to mention the name of a single country and preferred to use the garb of trilateral or multilateral cooperation.</span><br />