evidence: 3 Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, "Draft Resolution-1," July 16, 2012, http://bms.org.in/encyc/2012/7/16/DRAFT-RESOLUTION--1.aspx. [...] In 2016 and 2017, the India-China relationship deteriorated significantly—beginning with China’s much-publicized 2016 decision to block India from joining the Nuclear Suppliers Group. This downward trend was worsened by a tense months-long military standoff between the two countries in 2017 at Doklam on Bhutanese territory (claimed by China). By mid-2018, the cooperative rhetoric that accompanied a spring 2018 Modi-Xi meeting in the Chinese city of Wuhan began to outweigh strategic competition as the predominant official narrative around India-China relations. While the Nehruvian slogan of "Hindi-Chini bhai bhai" ("India and China are brothers") certainly does not capture Modi’s sentiment, he appears to have pragmatically assessed that sustained hostility toward Beijing is not an option for India.35 That said, this cooperative rhetoric has not yielded any substantive results for India. This became glaringly clear on March 13, 2019, when China—for the fourth time—blocked the United Nations Security Council from designating Pakistan-based JeM founder Masood Azhar as a terrorist.36 This development came after JeM claimed responsibility for the February 2019 Pulwama attack.37 [...] 36 "Pakistan’s Masood Azhar: China Blocks Bid to Call Militant Terrorist," BBC, March 14, 2019, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47565132.