On Thursday, the Pakistani terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed killed at least 40 Indian security officers in India’s northern Jammu and Kashmir province. Confronting terrorism and supporting an important democratic partner, the United States should respond positively to India’s request for an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting. As an Indian government statement put it: “We strongly reiterate our appeal to all members of the international community to support the proposal to list terrorists, including [JeM] Chief Masood Azhar, as a designated terrorist under the 1267 Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council …”

India and the world have good reason to want Azhar on that list. A longtime Islamist fanatic known both for his orchestration of brutal attacks and for his cultivation of global Sunni fanaticism; Azhar is a terrorist’s terrorist. But while much of the world recognizes as much, China and Pakistan do not. That matters, because as a veto-power member of the U.N. Security Council, China has blocked efforts to add Azhar to the U.N.’s terrorism list.