China may have provided nuclear weapons design to Pakistan: Declassified CIA document

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7. The Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Friend

China had a fallout with the Soviet Union and India was an ally of the Soviet Union. That would naturally drive the US and China in the same direction in the India-Pakistan dispute. This is also about the same time as Nixon's trip to China and the start of the thaw between the two countries. The problem is that somebody needed to slow walk some of the below the radar changes that were taking place and question who's interest was really being served by these decisions. While the odds are high that Pakistan would have gotten the bomb there was certainly no need to fast track those efforts because they have more and better weapons than they otherwise would have today.