China defends blocking Azhar terror listing: Here's what experts have to say

Adding Azhar to the blacklist would have led to imposition of strict restrictions on him and his terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed, including the freezing of assets. India’s external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj has expressed disappointment and said that the United Nations is ineffective when it comes to combating terror.

Meanwhile, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's China diplomacy. Attacking his bonhomie with Chinese President Xi Jingping, he tweeted that the Prime Minister was scared of Chinese President and did not open his mouth when the latter acted against India.

The economic wing of RSS, Swadeshi Jagran Manch called for a boycott of Chinese products on Thursday, after China foiled a bid to blacklist the head of a Pakistan-based militant group that claimed a suicide attack in Kashmir.

In an interview to CNBC-TV18, CV Ranganathan, former India envoy to China; Phunchok Stobdan, former envoy expert on Inner Asian Affairs; Ananth Krishnan, visiting fellow, Brookings India; Vijay K Nambiar, former under-secretary-general, UN and former envoy of India to China, discussed China’s stance on Masood Azhar and UNSC’s failure to blacklist JeM chief.

Nambiar said, “I do not think that this was unexpected. However, at the same time, I do not think we could have done anything less than what we did. It was important for us to try and press the Chinese very strongly, to see if they can deliver on some of the promises that they had made.”

On Swadeshi Jagran Manch’s call for boycotting trade with China, Krishnan said, “If you look at the kind of goods we import from China, the things that consumers buy whether it is toys or cheap Chinese goods, they account for very small percentage of trade. It is mostly telecom equipments and power equipments. So, consumers boycotting is an emotional response and is not going to have an impact on China’s strategy or China’s relationship with Pakistan.”