Pakistani astronaut will become first foreign national to enter Chinese space station | CNN

>Isn't India a close partner to China?

Huh?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_border_dispute

Errr no. The two largest populations on the planet are in direct competition.

thats unrelated. There was a Terror attack in Kashmir recently.

they're like softly at war actually

edit: this despite the increasing influence of BRICS

They are both in BRICS but their relationship is weird. India is more aligned with the West and their British colonisation.

Further proof that scientists are cool everywhere in the world

I just read that the Indian government told it's citizens to leave Pakistan if they're there. Isn't India a close partner to China? Would India see this in a negative light?

Space race 2.0!

This is cool but I also want to take this opportunity to point out SUPARCO started as a prestigious NASA partner that eventually devolved into yet another army staffed office whose only purpose is to collect a paycheck and inhibit any actual growth.

ie they could easily just choose literally anyone to be the astronaut since Pakistan axed it's space program decades ago.