Apart from India, there is another country China that has only one time zone. China’s time belt is the largest in the world which is only one in time belt comparing to the similar size the US has four time zones. The time zones distinguish the China and US comparing as both the countries are of similar sizes. China follows the standard time offset of UTC+08.00, which means it is 8 hours ahead of the UTC or coordinated Universal time.

Geographically, China is a country that can be divided into five-time belts. But the timing belt is just one with the official national standardized time of Beijing.

China One Time Zone History

After the formation of the Republic of China, the time zone was differentiated into nine zones as per the geographical changes. It was in 1918, before this it was the Beijing standard time followed by the Chinese people. But after the five-time belts, it was becoming difficult for the remote places and locals to maintain the time. Confusion was developing and finally, in 1928 the reference time standard shifted to the Beijing Mean solar time that is UTC + 8 Hours. The timing zone was again changed in different changes of power and government in China, even during the Chinese Civil war 1949. But despite several times of changes, the one time standard China time zone follows the Beijing official timing zone.

Hong Kong And Macau follows Standardise time zone

From 1997 to 1999, Hong Kong and Macau became part of China. They also follow the time of UTC+8 hours. While Tibet is still not properly assuring the timing belt defined, but it was following the Beijing time till 1950. Later it was shifted to the Xinjiang time which is UTC + 6 hours and again to UTC+8 hours.

Hong Kong has its own time belt, with the adoption of the Greenwich mean time from 1904. Despite being a part of China, Macau maintains its own time belt which is similar to the standard zonal time of China.

The Daylight saving time is not used in both Hong Kong and Macau. Despite transferred authority, the countries use their own time zones, but it makes a single time zone in China.

The US has different timing zones unlike China

The area of the countries may be of the same sizes but it does not the same timing zone all over the country.  Later it increased to an eleven-time belt after adding Baker Island and Wake Island. The general zone is divided into Pacific time, Mountain time, Central time, Eastern time. It was a need after the increase in utility of transports and telecommunication. With the changes in the geographical changes, it became necessary to develop a standard time as per the zone.

China was able to set its standard single zonal time belt with changes in geographical changes but restricted to the UTC. Even after the inclusion of Macau and Hong Kong, there were no changes in the China time zone.

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The Chinese Foreign Ministry has by far foiled any attempts from Indian side to designate Masood Azhar, chief of the terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed that is reportedly enjoying a safe haven in Pakistan. In the onslaught of the IAF airstrike on Balakot, Pakistan, China has tendered no words of sympathy or concern for Pakistan which left Pakistan numb-hearted.

Beijing, reportedly has issued a statement addressing Islamabad that Pakistan should not expect any support from China in its conflict with India. Further, Beijing added that it will provide its backing in only limited sectors such as economic development. China responded to India’s retaliation and act of destroying the terror training hub in Balakot through the powerful airstrike with utmost respect.

China is visibly inclining towards strengthening its bilateral ties with India. The Chinese diplomats said that China is vouching for Indian participation in the second belt and road forum in April at a time when many other countries have rejected the ambitious project.  The reason why China is expecting Indian presence in the second Belt and Road Forum in April because because it will give another dimension to it which only has China-Pakistan Economic corridor as a showcase project. India, however was absent in the program last year because a section of the Belt and Road passes through POK. India was only the major country to boycott the first meeting of the forum last year although representatives from at least 130 countries were in attendance.

According to the Wikipedia, “Bilateral relations have evolved from an initial Chinese policy of neutrality to a partnership with a smaller but militarily powerful Pakistan. Diplomatic relations were established in 1950, boundary issues resolved in 1963, military assistance began in 1966, a strategic alliance was formed in 1972, and economic co-operation began in 1979. China has become Pakistan’s largest supplier of arms and its third-largest trading partner.”

China has always seen Pakistan as a nation where it can invest and gain control over gradually. Further, establishing a strong friendship with Pakistan is the only means to have access to the vast markets of Central Asia for its goods. That is not all, China has another ineterst, that is to keep its energy highway open which is an alternate route to the Indian ocean.

Now, when no country is immune to the pressures of the national interests, and the whole world is admonishing Pakistan for not taking knee-jerk action against the terrorists, China is backing off from supporting Pakistan in its tiff with India.

You can read the Time of India report here.

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