What's telling here is the degree to which Chinese intelligence operations have, by and large, failed in foreign countries due to the CCP's historical aversion to interference.
By now, I've seen dozens of reports of Chinese nationals being targeted in "terrorist attacks" but practically nothing on retaliation done by China or forces associated with Chinese intelligence on these groups. In theory, it should be an easy sell, and would act as deterrence against being pushed around and would play well with the domestic audience, but I guess China just doesn't have that capability right now.
Building an effective, global, world class intelligence operation is necessary to defend long term interests. China's intelligence focus seem to be primarily counter intelligence and domestic, and while they're successful there, it's not enough.
It’s actually a sign of how perverted western ‘intelligence’ has become that people think doing wet work and terrorist attacks is what intelligence agencies primary function is.
Intelligence is about gathering intelligence. Retaliation should be done by conventional forces if it is warranted. If you are relying on secret services to do the nasty, in means you lack the moral case and/or national comprehensiveness hard power to be doing what you are doing and so don’t dare to do it openly and need to sneak around hoping you don’t get caught. In which case you really shouldn’t be doing that shit.
Another reason it’s pointless getting into these underhanded BS nonsense is that do you honestly think Modi could care less about his Jai Hind minions getting turned to pink mist?
Indian BS is not dealt with by China directly because while it is annoying, the damage done is pretty inconsequential from a national POV. They just end up expend significant resources killing random Chinese civilian workers. Just because the terrorists call their victims VIPs doesn’t make them actual VIPs, just like how western mercs claiming every Russian soldier they killed is spetsnaz doesn’t actually make them real spetsnaz.
While devastating to the individual families, these attacks does little to nothing to derail the projects they target. It is, unfortunately, just part of the price of operating in the region, similar to how traffic accidents will cost trucking companies a certain number of deaths each year. It’s cold but unfortunately the reality of things.
But what Chinese intelligence will do is help Pakistani authorities in finding the Indian operatives in question and bringing them to justice.
In the grand scheme of things, I think India will get its comeuppance sooner rather than later, because with their slave mentality, when the showdown does happen between China and the west, the Indians will almost certainly jump in voluntarily on their western masters’ side to fight against China, and will die in vast numbers and achieve very little, just as they have done so in both previous world wars.